List of T. Boone Pickens Quotes

I've Been Married Over 50 Years Of My Life.

I've Got An Opinion On Everything. Sure, You Ought To Do Ocs, You Ought To Do Renewables, You Ought To Do Biofuels, You Ought To Do Ethanol, All Of Them. Those Are Ours And We've Got To Get Off The Dependency On The Foreign Oil.

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.

I Don't Believe In A Price On Carbon, Because The Government Is Going To Control It And They're Going To Fail.

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.

We're Going To Have Shortages And Prices Are Going To Go Up. Gasoline Is Going To Be Extremely Tight For Us.

If You Can Provide The Funding And You Get The Leadership, You'll Have A Competitive Team.

You Give The Money Where You Want It.

For Decades, Our Dependence On Opec Oil Has Dictated Our National Security Decisions And Tied Us Up In The Middle East At An Incredible Price. We've Spent More Than $5 Trillion And Thousands Of American Soldiers Have Died Securing Middle East Oil.

There Is No Free Market For Oil.

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.

In The History Of America, We've Never Had An Energy Plan. We Don't Even Realize The Resources That We Have Available To Us.