With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil Dependency
It's never too late to top your personal best.
Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business
world. Known as the "Oracle of Oil" because of his uncanny ability to predict
the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest
independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the
1980s, Pickens became a household name when he executed a series of unsolicited
buyout bids for undervalued oil companies, in the process reinventing the notion
of shareholders' rights. Even his failures were successful in