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underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:48 PM Original message |
Anyone familiar with self-proclaimed oil man T. Boone Pickens? |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. ... |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. Pickens basically owns Oklahoma State University. He's rich and usually swings to the right. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. He's an oil man so I'm suspicious. |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. He's a swiftboater. He gave $1.5 million to the SBVT in '04. |
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Bluestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. I've seen that ad, but I don't recall that he is calling for the |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Here's his plan: |
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Bluestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Call me cynical, but I still smell a rat |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. I agree - he's not altruistic; he is looking for a way to make a buck. |
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aspergris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
6. I've followed t boone for years |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. I'd add this... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Natural or LP is good as a short gap solution. |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Where have you read about him pushing LNG? |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. In is plan... |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Natural gas does NOT equal LNG |
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LibinMo (364 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. A link |
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hisownpetard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. Those ads are very creepy. Trying to build suspense about what he's going to announce in |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. Lots of aspects there - He is an oilman (no question there). He is nobody respectable |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. I'm jaded. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Of course. There is no question there. \nt |
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aspergris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. of course he's in it for the dollars |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. No, but, without his money, we may have a president who cares at this point. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Everyone's in it for the money. Even us. nt |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Lots of threads discussing that. My take is that |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Well, he certainly did not put his money where his mouth was then. in 2000 and 2004, he definitively |
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underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. Thanks everyone |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. Maybe he's just a Republican |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. Swiftboater and racist. He only wants enough alternative energy to keep "those filthy AaaRaabs from |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. Newt Gingrich also is on board with climate change, but here's the big difference: |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Absolutely... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. I believe he said what he stands for in the interview Tom Brokaw had with |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Texas Legislators passed a $1 Bill grant for windpower. |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
31. There is money to be made in wind and solar power and he wants some. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
32. No one here should trust him. He's a rethuglican and swiftboater supporter. nt |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
34. would you buy a used car from him? |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
35. He's an infamous "corporate raider" of the 1980s. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
36. "Swift Boat" sabotage sponsor of Kerry campaign! |
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