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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:23 PM Sep 2019

T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91

Source: Dallas Morning News

T. Boone Pickens, legendary energy executive, philanthropist, ardent Oklahoma State University supporter and one of America's most famous entrepreneurs, died peacefully Wednesday of natural causes at his home in the Vendome. He was 91.

Pickens had an energy career that went from laborer to corporate take-over raider to tycoon to business soothsayer. He was among the few business elites granted "dual citizenship" on both sides of the Red River.

L.A. movie producers would have been hard-pressed to create an exaggerated Hollywood version of the real-life man.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Do not go where the path might lead, but instead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' That was Boone," said retired banker Alan White, one of Pickens' closest friends. "Boone was always going some place where there was no path. He left trails all of his life. Many of us had the good fortune of being able to follow along with him."

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/09/11/t-boone-pickens-larger-than-life-energy-tycoon-and-osu-diehard-dies-at-91/

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T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91 (Original Post) alp227 Sep 2019 OP
That's too bad. He was a bloated asshole anyway. JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #1
Another big Republican finder goes bye-bye Vogon_Glory Sep 2019 #2
He's dead then oswaldactedalone Sep 2019 #3
Fuck him and his swift boat vets friends... Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #4
He was never on my "Good Guys" list ... guess you're not supposed to say this, BUT RKP5637 Sep 2019 #5
Another mammon worshiper that should have never been. n/t MarcA Sep 2019 #6
Articles never mentioned that he was one of the first persons to invoke greenmail (along / ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #7
Asshole. Paladin Sep 2019 #8
buh bye EveHammond13 Sep 2019 #9
'T. Boone Pickens' is the most Oklahoma name in the history of Oklahoma. Aristus Sep 2019 #10
Two names I remember from the Nightly Business Report of the 1980s bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #11
He would have only lost $150M in the wind business.......... Bengus81 Sep 2019 #12
The man behind the John Kerry swiftboating. F him. nt DURHAM D Sep 2019 #13
... blogslut Sep 2019 #14
Put the coins on his eyes as he tries Miigwech Sep 2019 #15
I get it... JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #18
is he the guy who said the American people "need to turn up their Miracle Ear"? CTyankee Sep 2019 #16
Good riddance to a rapacious asshole dalton99a Sep 2019 #17
I remember him as the Fracking King. Greybnk48 Sep 2019 #19

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
1. That's too bad. He was a bloated asshole anyway.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:34 PM
Sep 2019

Life is unfair, I want Tom Petty back.

RIP T Boone. I hope you took it all with you.

Vogon_Glory

(9,086 posts)
2. Another big Republican finder goes bye-bye
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:36 PM
Sep 2019

Let’s not forget the role T. Boone played in installing Texas GOP one-party rule.

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
5. He was never on my "Good Guys" list ... guess you're not supposed to say this, BUT
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:45 PM
Sep 2019

I'm glad he's gone. ... was another big-time asshole republican.

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
7. Articles never mentioned that he was one of the first persons to invoke greenmail (along / ...
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 02:51 PM
Sep 2019

with Carl Icahn)...which now is a favorite practice on Wall Street (and pretty ruined the stock market for a lot of average folks on the street)...imho.

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
8. Asshole.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:00 PM
Sep 2019

That's an informed opinion: I knew several people who worked for him over the years, and they all thought that---even amongst oil and gas execs---he stood out as a world-class dickhead.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
10. 'T. Boone Pickens' is the most Oklahoma name in the history of Oklahoma.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:43 PM
Sep 2019

I expect he's burning in Hell, which must come as a relief if the alternative was to continue living in Oklahoma.

bucolic_frolic

(42,676 posts)
11. Two names I remember from the Nightly Business Report of the 1980s
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:48 PM
Sep 2019

T. Boone Pickens, and Wilbur Ross.

Always wondered why Paul Kangas mentioned them so often.

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
12. He would have only lost $150M in the wind business..........
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 03:50 PM
Sep 2019

Because he LISTENED to a load of Repuke nay-sayers back in 2007 that wind would never turn a profit. If he would have gone forward he would have made a hell of alot of money and it would continue for decades to come.

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
17. Good riddance to a rapacious asshole
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 05:38 PM
Sep 2019
In July 2009, Pickens was the subject of controversy after he had a construction crew go to his grandmother's former home, that was now owned by someone else, in Holdenville, Oklahoma and remove a slab of driveway concrete that he had signed as a child.[96] The current owner of the home asserted ownership, and the slab was returned.[97] In February 2010, a judge ruled that the slab belonged to the current homeowner.[98]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens

Greybnk48

(10,148 posts)
19. I remember him as the Fracking King.
Thu Sep 12, 2019, 11:05 AM
Sep 2019

Running commercials all the time about how we could get so much fuel if we were permitted to really, really, trash the environment before anyone knew what it really did. Fuck him.

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