I lived in Amarillo when his Mesa Partners was there. He wanted Amarillo’s city-owned gas field. He couldn’t get it honestly, so he got his city commission/mayor elected with his millions. He then bought his gas field for pennies on the dollar. When the people complained loudly, he said Amarillo was just a giant truckstop, took his toys, and moved his business to Dallas. A big crook.
TBone also tried to get the taxpayers to pay for the transmission lines for his windmills. When that failed, he dropped the project. He has also been buying up water rights on the Ogallala aquifer. He plans on selling that water to the big cities (out from under the farmers) at a great profit. Watch your backs. I ran into him and his 5 cowboy bodyguards on several occasions. Nasty bunch.
yeah, and I heard he got in a jam and had to sell to some outfit run by an ex wall street gal. Was it Pioneer???? Sumpin anyways. Then after a month she saw what a joke he was and showed him the door.
Doin’ a deal with T. Boone is like sleeping in a rattlesnake den. Ya know, if I was an 80 yr. old billionaire I would just go home sit on the front porch with the grandkids. I guess his ego is so huge and demanding he needs somebody to stroke it sometimes.