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cgarr 12-04-2008 03:59 AM

Where is T. Boone Pickens?
 
Have not heard from him in a while? What happened?

Jim Richards 12-04-2008 04:00 AM

good question

rouxroux 12-04-2008 04:18 AM

The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

Maybe he's hanging out with Ross Perot, making charts & graphs.

cgarr 12-04-2008 04:22 AM

Could this be why?

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...mmer91/Oil.jpg

onewhippedpuppy 12-04-2008 04:58 AM

Oklahoma State is good this year, he's been watching football.

red-beard 12-04-2008 05:19 AM

Both he and my father went to OK A&M. He did a little better.

As far as where is he now? He's screwed. The wind portion was for public consumption. He really wanted to get cars converted to Natural Gas. He has a chance with Obama, since a carbon tax favors Methane over long chained hydro-carbons.

widgeon13 12-04-2008 07:28 AM

he's going to be an energy consultant for BHO

Red Baron 12-04-2008 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy (Post 4339275)
Oklahoma State is good this year, he's been watching football.

I saw him there last weekend at the Alumni/Player luncheon.

Red Baron 12-04-2008 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by widgeon13 (Post 4339550)
he's going to be an energy consultant for BHO

He should have been in that position since the Carter Admin.

legion 12-04-2008 08:40 AM

It's hard to sell snake oil when real medecine got cheap.

Tidybuoy 12-04-2008 09:39 AM

I doubt he will slow down. He's for energy independance and that, we are not.

Maybe he has just slowed the advertising during the transition - besides, he spent a chunk of his own dough and he may need a little recovery time. The economy is affecting everyone - even him.

red-beard 12-04-2008 10:11 AM

Yeah, he spent a huge chunk of money on Wind power, and wanted to make certain that the fed continues to subsidize it!

onewhippedpuppy 12-04-2008 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red Baron (Post 4339558)
I saw him there last weekend at the Alumni/Player luncheon.

Doesn't he basically own the place?

Red Baron 12-04-2008 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy (Post 4339880)
Doesn't he basically own the place?

Pretty much. They've re-named everything in his honor.

Les Paul 12-04-2008 10:38 AM

http://boonestate.blogspot.com/

My son in law wrote the cartoon for awhile over Boone. They had numerous death threats against them. They did get interviewed on HBO special with Bryant Gumbell hosting. My son in law thought they'd get grilled but they didn't. When Christopher graduated that may from OSU he wore a boonstate pin and when the Dean of students shook his hand he said this is the guy that wrote a cartoon about OSU. It was in the stadium and everyone kind of gasped. Then he said it was all in good fun bla bla bla.

Boone has a huge ranch 20 miles from my house. I pass it on my Sunday long course runs. Until a month ago it employed 300 people. They cut that back to 50. he has put his wind farm on hold. Over 650 costing 10 billion. Not gonna happen for awhile. He said a couple of months ago he'd lest over a billion of his own money. Trust me though he was one of those major speculators that drove the price of crude to 147.

Tidybuoy 12-04-2008 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 4339876)
Yeah, he spent a huge chunk of money on Wind power, and wanted to make certain that the fed continues to subsidize it!

A project like windpower has to be govt funded - at least for the infrastructure. You can make windmills but have to plug into something. Generally, the infrastructure is too costly for any company to bare the investment cost.


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