In a battle between fossil-fuel billionaires, the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity front group has been bashing the NAT GAS Act (HR 1380), championed by Swift Boat funder T. Boone Pickens to promote natural-gas vehicles. Since the lobbying campaign against Pickens began, 14 House Republicans have withdrawn support for the legislation. “So here you are: Charles Koch working for Koch, Boone Pickens is working for America,” Pickens said Tuesday in an interview on Bloomberg TV.
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