T. Boone Pickens The Importance of Transforming US Energy Us

T. Boone Pickens The Importance of Transforming US Energy Usage T. Boone Pickens, legendary oil and gas developer, shareholder rights defender, commodities trader and philanthropist, held a major press conference on July 8th to announce his national energy strategy to end our dependency on foreign oil and how this plan affects our economic and security issues. Specifically, his idea is based on wind power and his goal is to build wind farms and have them replace natural gas. This will reduce the dependency on importing oil from foreign countries and build businesses around this new sustainable energy resource and effort. Talent/Guest: T. Boone Pickens, American businessman and chair of the Hedge Fund BP Capital Management T. Boone Pickens, Jr. is an American businessman who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator during the 1980s. With an estimated current net worth of about $3 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 117th-richest person in America and ranked 369th in the world.

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YouTube | December 24, 2008

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