Boone Pickens sounds like a terrible person. His message is also terrible. But - as the author says - he is probably both realistic and right.
How is his message terrible? Or do you mean in a truth hurts way? Because it is flat out idiotic of us to do whatever is necessary to stop sending money to the Middle East.
He has said he is for the “all of the above” approach.
What Pickens is--a business man. He's spending $58 million but it is an advertising campaign for his new energy company--windpower.
Nobody ever addresses what we are supposed to use for fuel until our cars are built to run on "whatever" replacement for gasoline or what they are going to do with the millions of gasoline powered cars.
None of it will happen in my lifetime--or T. Boone Pickens'.
BYW, he is also buying as many water rights as he can.
If his future is patterned by his past, he will continue to give away millions of $$$.
Recently Roy Huffington, another oil and gas billionaire, died at the age of 90...in Venice. When he wasn't traveling he still worked. When asked by a reporter why he still worked he said, "To make more money to give away." He gave hundreds of millions to various programs in the Medical Center in Houston. I think he funded the Interferon program at M.D. Anderson.