Billionaire hedge-fund manager Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of Dallas-based BP Capital LLC, talks about federal tax credits and transmission challenges for the wind-power industry, the "Pickens Plan" and the outlook for oil prices and production. Pickens, 80, unveiled a national energy plan last month that relies on domestically produced natural gas and wind power to cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
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00:00 Tax credits for wind-energy industry
01:30 Transmission challenges for wind power
03:46 Natural-gas prices and extraction technology
04:28 Outlook for oil production and prices
06:07 Consolidation within the oil industry
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Pickens Expects Oil to Return to Record by End of 2008
Bloomberg, August 27, 2008 18:42 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arkJ2WMHUp08
Hi Barry, will you consider this US dollar negative? I wonder what your views are on the relation between the rising price of oil and the US dollar and other currencies?
Wind power is a joke. How much longer are we going to tolerate these Green lunatics?
T. Boone is right about using CNG for fueling our transportation rolling stock.
We have tremendous reserves of Natural Gas throughout the lower 48, to say nothing of Alaska.
from a trade group:
http://www.cngnow.com/EN-US/Pages/default.aspx
the only real obstacle to letting this tehnology loose, in the wild, is finding a replacement for the Petro$
O, and better than Wind:
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this, too, is well-proven technology many decades old
Will other commodities follow oil back up, or is the economy too busted to support such a move?
The general Inter-Connectedness of All Things would seem to dictate that the death of commodities has been greatly exaggerated, if Pickens’ predictions hold true.
I think we will have to see utility rates go through the roof before we will be able to shake loose sufficient capital to start a serious effort at getting the nation off oil. In some places, this is happening now, but generally, not so much (yet).
And where will the money come from? We seem to be putting all our eggs into the save-the-financial-industry basket, with little likelihood of returning to the credit markets to fund the infrastructure improvements (additional transmission towers & lines) and power generation facilities (wind, solar thermal, geothermal, nuclear) necessary to make this move, even though it looks like it will be less capital-intensive than bailing out less-than-deserving banks and brokers.
There’s a signpost in the road up ahead … we are entering the Twilight Zone.
T Boone has been wrong plenty of times so far in the past year. He was short oil at $98, Long at $115, on the way UP TO $145.
Then on way down, he was LONG at $125, no we are at $108. His short term bets are pretty off. Not that I have anything against the oil man
T. Boone Pickens: the money behind the Swift Boat bums.
Thanks for all your help in ruining the country T.!
I thought everyone knew this Pickens scam was all about water.
http://tinyurl.com/6r95k3
T Boone made Billions, with a B in the runup from $60 to $100, so he had his bona fides. What does the ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards have?
“What does the ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards have?”
An illegitimate child and a lying Vice Presidential candidate?
T Boone is beginning to sound like a rambling geriatric. He’s been dead wrong plenty of times on oil this past year – –
Oil at a new record by year end 2008? Not unless WW3 starts. Oil is likely to be at $85/barrel by end of 2008. The charts are broken – all the momentum is gone – – and THAT is what drove the prices in the first place.
An illegitimate child and a lying Vice Presidential candidate?
Does he? We know that Palin is a liar.
An illegitimate child and a lying Vice Presidential candidate?
Does he? We know that Palin is a liar.
An illegitimate child and a lying Vice Presidential candidate?
Does he? We know that Palin is a liar.
An illegitimate child and a lying Vice Presidential candidate?
Does he? We know that Palin is a liar.