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" Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. "
T. Boone Pickens
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" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "
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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'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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" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
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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 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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" 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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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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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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