T. Boone Pickens: Energy: A Fool with a Plan Can Beat a Genius Without One (3/25/3009)

Duration

1:07:49

T. Boone Pickens, Founder and Chairman, BP Capital Management; Author, The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future

Recasting himself from an oil and gas tycoon to a leader in clean energy, Pickens wants to build the largest wind farm in the world. He reflects on a lifetime of comebacks and calls for an end to our foreign oil addiction by moving to natural gas, wind and solar energy.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 25, 2009.

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