Framerguy

I am quite curious how this guy, T. Boone Pickens, fits into the present political picture??? I just saw his ad on TV for a new save-all concept for using natural gas for the power that we get from gasoline now. It seems very timely and convenientthat his ads show up on TV just this summer when the political theater is heating up in tune for the November elections and gas has hit a new high.

I am betting that we will see his face hanging around in the background sooner than later after the new president is in place. I'll bet that he has some kind of plan to make a bundle for himself and will come to the surface when all the election brewhaha calms down!!

What do you think he is up to???

SKATR JIM

His name is T. Boone Pickens. He is a multi-billionaire oilman. I don't think you should look for him to be appointed to any office, as he has no interest in such positions.

Of course he stands to make money if his propositions are followed. Whats wrong with that? This country needs men like him willing to lay what they have on the line in order to advance our country.

1923

No matter what his motive is , think about what he said. We have 3% of the oil reserves but we use 25% of the worlds reserves. Does that sound like a good long term plan? That 3% includes all untapped reserves. He is warning that there is an ax over our heads, I wonder what he is up to ?

38bat

T. Boone Pickens as has been said. Interesting guy, has some cool energy ideas and is building a huge windfarm in Texas. Don't think he has aspirations for Washington though. His website is www.pickensplan.com

HeartofDixie

Yeah, its T. Boone <U>PICKENS</U> (not Crockett).

Watch this 5 minute video I posted a couple months ago about his energy plan. Very interesting ideas. I'm for anything that will reduce our dependance on the foreign oil and those 'looneys' in the Middle East.

Link to Video:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid1653634930

Framerguy

Sorry for the misnomer, I must have had Boone &amp; Crockett on my mind at the time!! Duh! :doh

I should know better than to try to post before my first cup of coffee in the morning!

FizzyLifter

I know you asked politically but here's a different side of Pickens if you're curious.....

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colle...donation_x.htm

"With a gift like that, of course, they're going to be respectful and I'm going to be asked my opinion on things. It doesn't mean that I'm running anything," he says. "I don't want to get into personnel. I've never told a football coach at OSU, ever, 'Hey, you should play that guy at quarterback.' Or, 'You ought to run more up the middle or pass more.' I'd never be over there jerking people around or something like that. That's not my personality."

Here is the stadium website they named after him. Only 60K seats but will be state of the art. Videos show what it will look like. WOW!

http://www.okstate.com/fls/200/cam/history3.php

In 2003, Lewis Field was renamed Boone Pickens Stadium after OSU alum T. Boone Pickens made what was then the single-largest gift in school history. His $70 million gift ($20 million of which was earmarked for stadium expansion) spurred the ?Next Level Campaign?, which generated more than $100 million in gifts and pledges, involving more than 2,500 individuals. Pickens capped the fundraising effort in 2006 with the momentous gift of an additional $165 million to OSU Athletics, the largest ever received by a university athletic department.

The west end zone project has become perhaps the signature construction phase of the entire Next Level campaign. When completed, this massive structure serve as the new headquarters for the Cowboy coaching staff with offices at the club level. The west end zone will also house a new OSU locker room, speed and strength center, equipment room, hall of fame, athletic training center, theater room, meeting rooms, video operations, media center, and dining area. The west end zone is so inclusive that Bullet will have his own stall.

The completed horseshoe will raise seating capacity to 60,000 and will put in place more than 100 suites around the rim of the stadium. Current plans call for multiple video boards and a ribbon board that will encircle the stadium.

Bowed Up

The ol boy has invested a ton in wind and now is selling it to us, I meant looking out for us. Just a business man, nothing wrong with that, he will push the wind power on us and us taxpayers will foot the bill for the infrastructure (power lines, ect..) to get it all hooked up. Smart man, because in a "crises" you will be able to fast track the infrastructure permitting andemanate domain actions.</DIV>

HeartofDixie

</DIV></DIV>I'd rather my tax dollars be spent here in the US on renewable resources and energy independence, as oppose to it going over seas to the Middle East and other oil nations. Maybe thats just me though?</DIV>

Bowed Up

I'm all with that just reading between the lines. You know the deal, here's this great thing I'm trying to do for America while I'm making a killing and getting y'all to foot the bill. I'm more of a geothermal leaning person. Drill down till it gets hot pump in water to make steam to turn a turbine. That will be clean and renewable. I wonder if T-boone is looking for carbon credits also? Either way we are all thinking along the same lines and someone will make a killing off of this new national search for clean energy. Better than making money off of a war