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" If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. "
T. Boone Pickens
Use
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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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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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" Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. "
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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 don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. "
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