TetraHyC
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What do you guys know about T.Boone Pickens, sounds like a good plan, but I don't know anything about him/his past, outside of being an oil-man.
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T.Boone Pickens
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ViRedd
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Everything you want to know, and then some:
T. Boone Pickens - Biography & Archive of T. Boone Pickens
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T. Boone Pickens - Biography & Archive of T. Boone Pickens
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mockingbird131313
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Pickens has been successful at damn near everything he has ever tried. He is an American genius. He has been described as an oil man, an insurance man, a restaurant owner, and I guess a couple other things as well.
mockingbird131313
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Yes Ted was a genius and he choked chicks.
As far as I ever heard, Boone only choked chicks when him and Harlan Sanders were in the Kentucky Fried Chicken business together.
ccodiane
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Although, a misplaced faith in alternatives, fostered by Pickens, among many many others, (I'm not singling him and his wind/solar farms out), are going to put a choke hold on the American economy, that is if your not already wheezing.....
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Bongulator
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He's a complex man, Pickens is. On one hand, I find him to be kind of an asshole. Sponsoring the Swift Boat attacks on Kerry, that was bad. Offering a million bucks to anyone who'd come forward to dispel those Swift Boat stories and then *not* paying it when someone came forward, that was just lame.
And then on the other hand, I have to admit that he's right about our energy policy. We really do need to push hard for domestic sources of energy, and to transform our transportation sector to use electricity, or really anything other than oil. We need to get our oil needs down to where we can keep ourselves readily supplied via our own and Canadian resources, and preferably just our own. I just hate hearing such accurate information and a realistic plan from such an asshole.
And then on the other hand, I have to admit that he's right about our energy policy. We really do need to push hard for domestic sources of energy, and to transform our transportation sector to use electricity, or really anything other than oil. We need to get our oil needs down to where we can keep ourselves readily supplied via our own and Canadian resources, and preferably just our own. I just hate hearing such accurate information and a realistic plan from such an asshole.
Dankdude
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T. Boone Pickens Lives about 50 miles from me.
In some ways he does good, but most around my part of the country would like to cut his throat. He seems to think that he owns the Ogallala Aquifer.
Since he has set the pumps on his land, he is trying to sell our water table down state.
He is currently going through litigation over this.
In the mean time our water is being sold down state.
My opinion T. Boone Pickens is a piece of shit.
In some ways he does good, but most around my part of the country would like to cut his throat. He seems to think that he owns the Ogallala Aquifer.
Since he has set the pumps on his land, he is trying to sell our water table down state.
He is currently going through litigation over this.
In the mean time our water is being sold down state.
My opinion T. Boone Pickens is a piece of shit.
ccodiane
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FM News Talk 100.3 KTLK-FM, 100.3 K-TALK
A whole segment on Pickens yesterday...7/22 6pm (listen) stream....all you need to know and more. Lewis=good
A whole segment on Pickens yesterday...7/22 6pm (listen) stream....all you need to know and more. Lewis=good
VTXDave
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You should see what's going on here in California. Water diverted from NorCal to SoCal. Owens Valley, once a fertile valley, now desertified and water diverted to SoCal. Mono Lake depleted as water is diverted to SoCal.
TetraHyC
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Sounds like he'd put is mother 'on-a-corner' to make a buck.
Dankdude
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And you would be correct..... You hit it right on the nose.