: Pickens followed in his father’s footsteps into the oil industry, and in 1956, he founded Mesa Petroleum.
In the1980s for leading hostile takeover bids for much larger oil companies, figuring it was cheaper to get new oil from Wall Street rather than drilling.
Eventually, he left Mesa in 1996 after the company suffered from a drop in natural gas prices. That same year he started BP Capital Management, a successful hedge fund focusing on energy equities and commodities. He shifted to focus on cleaner energy sources in 2008 by launching a self-funded campaign he dubbed the Pickens Plan, which championed wind energy as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Ultimately though, his $2 billion plan for a wind farm in Texas fell apart.
he supported Trump’s proposal to limit Muslim refugees in the U.S., saying “I'd cut off the Muslims from coming into the United States until we can vet these people.”
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