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By Eric Wesoff

T. Boone Pickens, the Chairman of BP Capital Management, spoke at the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics event on Thursday afternoon. The 81-year-old oilman and geologist is on a mission to get the U.S. off of OPEC oil and on to natural gas — and he doesn’t have a lot of time. He insists he doesn’t have time for Research and Development. In his words, he doesn’t "have ten years for R or ten years for D." Despite that claim, at his current level of feisty — I have little doubt he’ll live to 101.

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