T. Boone Pickens offers energy answer

T. Boone Pickens has watched the millions come and go, sometimes in a single day.

He’s been high and low, anointed as a savior and lambasted as a vulture. At one point, his life had all the makings of a country-western song. He was ousted from his company while going through a protracted divorce and living in a hotel.

Now, at 80, the legendary – yes, they call him stuff like that these days – and sometimes controversial Texas oilman isn’t quitting yet.

He has one more thing to do. He wants to solve the nation’s energy crisis.

Instead of foreign oil, he wants wind. He wants natural gas. He wants solar and a smart grid.

Philidelphia Inquirer