July 13, 2009 at 7:00 am by Katherine Butler
Knocking the Wind Out of T. Boone Pickens
If you want to look at the history of American energy, just consider T. Boone Pickens.
When Pickens founded Mesa Petroleum in the 1950s, he took $2500 and turned it into a three-billion-dollar oil empire. He’s Texas old school oil, currently running Dallas-based energy investment fund BP Capital. He is a close, personal friend of the Bush family, and he also funded that little Swift Boat incident that turned John Kerry into election road kill.
But then, a few years ago, something seemed to turn. Pickens is a …
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