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" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
T. Boone Pickens
Everything
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" I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. "
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" It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. "
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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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" Fundamentals make the market. "
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" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
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" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
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" There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. "
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" I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price. "
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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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" If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. "
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" Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. "
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" You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years. "
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" There is no free market for oil. "
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Market
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" When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works. "
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You
" Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. "
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Computer
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" The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. "
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Gas
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" I never did anything dishonest. "
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Never
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" Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. "
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" You give the money where you want it. "
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You
Where
" I don't need any more money. "
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Need
More
" It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. "
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Power
" 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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" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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" I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957. "
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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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" The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. "
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Energy
People
" Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. "
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Average
Feeling
Africa
" I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. "
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