American - Businessman | May 22, 1928 -
I've got an opinion on everything.
T. Boone Pickens
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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There is no free market for oil.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I never did anything dishonest.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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