how much money has t boone pickens spent on his television commercials?
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:27 PM
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how much money has t boone pickens spent on his television commercials?
just curious, anyone in the ad business? they seem to be on 24/7 nationwide????
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:27 PM
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1. Why is he swiftboating Carbon? n/t
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:29 PM
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2. i don't have an opinion on his 'plan' yet, but i suspect he's got some real cash invested in the tv
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Tue Jul-22-08 09:11 PM
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22. Would have been cheaper for him if he'd just let Kerry win last time. n/t
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:30 PM
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3. Not sure, but the repetition and placement of ads in Upstate NY is strange... n/t
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:33 PM
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6. We're also getting them in the Hudson
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:30 PM
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4. I've seen $58 million cited
No doubt that is for far more than his teevee spots. I also have seen no confirmation whatever on this. Pure speculation ..... but the only figure I've seen. Can't recall where I read that. I'm thinking it was right here on DU.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:32 PM
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5. from friends, it appears it coast to coast...
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:33 PM
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7. Good question, who is getting all that money?
And what will that entity be doing with it?
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:33 PM
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8. enough to gas up my car the rest of the year
that's for sure. Iwish this had sparked more of a conversation nationally, but it doesn't seem to have. All I keep hearing is drill drill drill and no thought of the future.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:45 PM
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14. It's still drill, drill, drill...but for natural gas
Windmills? Bah. Guess what's backing them up when the wind doesn't blow, or what he wants to become the #1 transportation fuel in the US? If the windmills don't work, all the better.
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Tue Jul-22-08 08:15 PM
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20. He has talked a lot about investing 11 billion in the wind farm.
As far as I know, he hasn't spent anything on the wind farm as yet.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:39 PM
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He's a business man. My guess is he has a new business up his sleeve... some way of making more money NOT with oil.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:43 PM
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11. It's called natural gas
and there's nothing up his sleeve, except possibly his transparent attempt to greenwash it.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:45 PM
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13. Unless he has a boatload of cars to run on it...
That he can sell right away, there's no quick money to be had regardless.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:47 PM
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16. The Honda Civic GX is available right now
and there will be many more in the near future.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:41 PM
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10. He claims $10M so far
in his interview on CNBC, where the talking heads slavishly fawned over him.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:44 PM
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12. I don't know and while I agree with many of his ideas particularly regarding
solar and wind energy, I wonder how much natural gas he controls?
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:45 PM
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15. I don't know but I guarantee he's spent less than he plans to make..
When natural gas prices rise to the point where our heating bills double or triple.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:47 PM
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17. I was just commenting on this last night
I see them at least 10 times a night. Way more then political commercials.
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Tue Jul-22-08 07:51 PM
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18. If I remember right, he said he's going to spend almost 100 million
on the campaign. I think I read it in Newsweek.
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Tue Jul-22-08 08:55 PM
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21. if we convert to wind and alternate sources t.boone wants to own it.maybe greed will be impetus
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Tue Jul-22-08 08:09 PM
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19. Sick of Those Commercials
It is not that they are T. Boone Pickens commercials, but that he shows them too much. One morning I decided to try to count how many times I saw the commercials in one day. I did not make it the whole day, but I saw them three time in just the morning. I am now just sick of seeing them.
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Tue Jul-22-08 10:18 PM
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23. hubby jus told me tonight he has the biggest in u.s. windmill whatever going up
outside of pampa texas. not too far from where we live i didnt know. puts these commercials in a different perspective for me.
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