Boone Pickens on the Oil Spill, Gas and Wind Power
T. Boone Pickens has worn many hats in his 82 years: oilman; corporate raider; benefactor to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University; and cheerleader-in-chief for a plan to free the country from its dependence on foreign oil. These days, he frequently wears another: oil spill talking head.
In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Pickens maintained that the BP disaster notwithstanding, the oil industry in the Gulf "hasn't had many problems" over the years. The last spills that blew out seabed wells near the U.S., he said, date back to 1969 (off the coast of Santa Barbara) and 1979 ...
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ngs1941
"The Pickens Plan" is designed to do one thing: enrich T. B. Pickens. The man owns HUGE natural gas fields and the switchover to natural gas from oil would result in a huge windfall for... T. B. Pickens! Ask him about his scheme to pump the Ogallala Aquifer dry by selling the water in the Texas Panhandle to customers in Dallas and San Antonio. Even better, the pipelines -- in another of "Pickens Plan" -- would be financed by the customer cities downstate. The giant windfarm scheme came a cropper because T.B. Pickens couldn't find a customer who was willing to foot the bill for transmission lines from the turbines to the "customers." From his days as a "corporate raider," T. B. Pickens has done only one thing: pursued $$ for T. B. Pickens. He attempts to wrap the flag around his "Plan" to "save" the nation and that only proves that Dr. Samuel Johnson was right: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Come on, _Texas Tribune_ stop the puff pieces on the likes of T. B. Pickens!
Chris Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Drill baby drill.
Joe Rodgers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
T. Bonne you need to stick with you nat gas and stay the hell out of the gulf
Richard Stone via Texas Tribune on Facebook
we can drill. We just can't fix it when there's a problem.
Rodney Ames via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Yeah, BP has proven that", he says sarcastically.
think
Funny how the corporate raiders , oil barron pirates, friends of financial gamblers get good public relations pieces in Texas news sources. In one week TT solicited donantions as a corruption fighter the same week they were lionizing Perry in newsweek during a self created 18 billion dollar shortage and when the links came out for dozens of regents contributing hundred of thousands of dollars in exchange for appointments.
Texas is home to the most billionaire, trillionaires where there are no state income taxes. And these guys are the ones pulling the strings in Texas politics for their interests and to heck with everyone else.
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Montgomery Powell
Unbelievable! How dare you publish this Pickens "interview" without disclosing that he is a major investor in the Texas Tribune?
This is journalistic malfeasance.
Neil Sapper
Right on, Montgomery Powell! I forwarded your comment to TT Honcho Evan Smith and asked for clarification or an explanation. We shall see....