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Im 83, i still go to work in the morning at 8:00, i have 150 people that work for me, and some place in here i feel like im letting the country down. >> oh. >> i need to know what they want. >> well, we can start with taxes. >> lets talk about taxes -- >> like warren buffett. >> what percentage -- >> warren buffett pays 17% of what he makes in taxes. is that fair? or should he pay 35%? >> is it? after i was 70 years old, hi paid $665 million in taxes. is that fair? >> well -- >> well, you made a...

Well go down the row. governor huntsman. >> first of all. this is a human tragedy playing out with 15 million unemployed. so many million, they have absolutely given up. they talk about foreclosures in new hampshire first time ever in the middle-class. i would drop something on congress, one my tax reform package endorse by the "wall street journal.". two, seriously regulatory reform. three, energy independence, pickens had great ideas of converting to natural gas. its 3500,000 job creator. it w...

Well go down the row. governor huntsman. >> first of all. this is a human tragedy playing out with 15 million unemployed. so many million, they have absolutely given up. they talk about foreclosures in new hampshire first time ever in the middle-class. i would drop something on congress, one my tax reform package endorse by the "wall street journal.". two, seriously regulatory reform. three, energy independence, pickens had great ideas of converting to natural gas. its 3500,000 job creator. it w...

Creating the biggest oil spill in this countrys history. oil continued spewing into the gulf three months before the company could finally stop it. although tourism on the gulf coast is returning to normal this spring, the cleanup continues even now. jamie lee of abc affiliate wear reports. >> reporter: exposed oil continues to appear on the beaches of ft. mccray and ft. pickens because cleanup crews can only use hand tools to remove tar balls to eliminate wildlife disturbances. oil beneath the ...

Time if you argue to eliminate all dependence on all fossils immediately and dont use natural gas, since we cant do that, basically your plan to continue to send u.s. marines like madia to be killed for foreign oil and -- >> thats absolutely not true. the only thing that we will -- >> what is your plan? what is your plan, josh? >> the only thing -- im about to explain it to you. the never thing to import is the sun and the wind. i want to show you what the pickens plan means. >> do you have a ru...

And our first guest today is one of the catalysts behind that momentum on the campus of osu, a man the president mentioned by name in his big energy speech yesterday. a man who made his money in oil but thinks we need to get off of it. t. boone pickens. hes a huge proponent of our natural resources and wind power, of upgrading our power grid, of dealing with misaligned incentives that pays people to do the wrong thing rather than the right thing whether its in your household or running a utility...

To mustering the will to change this? >> well, a couple things. one, i think mr. pickens is doing the right thing by showing people you can make a profit off doing this. i think once americans are convinced that theres money to be made in this, then we can generate some of the political will. but the other thing id say that goes more to the troops and that aspect of it is generating a sense of patriotism amongst people and convincing people that its patriotic to get off our dependence on foreign...

Plays on the board. >> exactly. im a cheap guy. >> greg, how would you envision this? you talk about wanting to own the resource on the farm yourself as opposed to leagues the land. its as if instead of growing corn, youre growing windmills. whats the barrier to doing something like that? >> well, i would agree with mr. pickens. it comes right down to price. and, you know, when our biggest utility in the state decided they liked wind energy, they wanted a guaranteed rate of return for their wind...

The worlds oil. pickens who rise when he said, this is one emergency we cannot drill our way out of. we cannot place our long-term bets on a finite resource that we only control 2% of, especially one vulnerable to hurricanes, war and political turmoil. beyond increased domestic production, if we want to increase our long-term independence, we need to reduce our demand and break our independence on oil. for example, last year we established a fuel efficiency standard for cars and trucks. it will ...

Oil in the last two years. so much natural gas in the last three years. it seems to have no impact on washington. >> and what about boone/pickens. >> no groundswell in congress? >> why? >> the coal powers are very powerful. and the clean colema coal movem obama. >> we havent discovered that much oil. we have a ton of natural gas. i get that. but oil is running out. >> 50 million barrels in north dakota. 50 million barrels in texas. all i do is have the ceos on. i dont know why they are lying abo...