A legendary oil and gas entrepreneur who has become the nation’s most effective energy expert, T. Boone Pickens, billionaire energy mogul and chairman of the private investment firm BP Capital Management, is on a mission to enhance U.S. energy policies to lessen the nation’s dependence on OPEC oil — a reliance that he views as the greatest threat to America’s national security and economic well-being.
Cited for his leadership in developing The Pickens Plan for America’s energy future, the entrepreneur and visionary has long been an advocate for harnessing domestic alternatives and developing even greater new technologies. He has not been shy in predicting oil and gas prices, sources say, and has been uncannily accurate. As a result, he is a frequent guest on some of the nation’s most-watched business programs and has been coined the “Oracle of Oil” by CNBC.
In an exclusive interview, Pickens will sit down with moderator John Hofmeister, founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy and former president of Shell Oil Company, during the Association’s 110th Annual Event on May 20 at Erie Insurance Arena, to share his candid, no-holds barred approach to solving America’s energy crisis.
“For me, the primary case for alternative energy is to help America achieve its national energy security,” he has said in his 2008 autobiography The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future. “As long as we are dependent on other countries for oil, the very lifeblood of our nation, our security is at risk.”
Read more in the May 2015 edition of the Business Magazine.
