T.Boone Pickens

TetraHyC · #1 07-23-2008, 02:31 PM

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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Info, opinions, please.

ViRedd · #2 07-23-2008, 02:34 PM

Everything you want to know, and then some:

T. Boone Pickens - Biography & Archive of T. Boone Pickens

Vi

TetraHyC · #3 07-23-2008, 02:40 PM

We can't keep sending all our(USA)money to other countries, If USA was a business it would have been belly-up a long time ago.

We need to start doing something NOW.

mockingbird131313 · #4 07-23-2008, 05:14 PM

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.

ccodiane · #5 07-23-2008, 05:23 PM

They say Ted Bundy was a genius too....

mockingbird131313 · #6 07-23-2008, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccodiane

They say Ted Bundy was a genius too....

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 · #7 07-23-2008, 05:30 PM

Well, your probably cluckin right there.....

ccodiane · #8 07-23-2008, 05:35 PM

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 · #9 07-23-2008, 05:40 PM

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.