it s 2030. how much dependence on oil from the middle east? according to what the leadership wants. larry: what do you think? i think we ve got to go to our own resources. and we have resources to go to. larry: nothing from there then? i ll take out the opec first. the oil from canada and mexico is fine with me. but north america is okay. but i just as soon get rid of the rest of it. larry: natural gas is still your big thing, right? you have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the united states. and it s 30% cleaner than oil. it s cheaper. it sells for 25% of the cost of oil larry: is it seems logical. it sure does. you d look like an idiot if we don t do it. larry: china has passed the united states as the world s biggest energy consumer. we re still we predicted that.
would rise to the occasion and love every minute of it. they would what he would tell them is you have to be on natural resource our natural resource in the united states. make your pick. we don t care. but just be on american resources in eight years. larry: another call. martinsville, virginia. hello. caller: yes, good afternoon, mr. pickens. i worked as a mechanic for over 30 years in a chemical plant. and we followed a lot of strict safety rules. also as a mechanic we did a lot of prevention maintenance work. my question is do you think that bp s preventative maintenance program failed? is it a big result of this disaster that we re going through now? no, i don t think it was a maintenance problem at all. larry: because? i think that i thing problem was, first, didn t run the centralizer. second, they got a bad cement job. and did not run the cement bond log. it had nothing to do with
it s 2030. how much dependence on oil from the middle east? according to what the leadership wants. larry: what do you think? i think we ve got to go to our own resources. and we have resources to go to. larry: nothing from there then? i ll take out the opec first. the oil from canada and mexico is fine with me. but north america is okay. but i just as soon get rid of the rest of it. larry: natural gas is still your big thing, right? you have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the united states. and it s 30% cleaner than oil. it s cheaper. it sells for 25% of the cost of oil larry: is it seems logical. it sure does. you d look like an idiot if we don t do it. larry: china has passed the united states as the world s biggest energy consumer.
i think the american people would rise to the occasion and love every minute of it. they would what he would tell them is you have to be on natural resource our natural resource in the united states. make your pick. we don t care. but just be on american resources in eight years. larry: another call. martinsville, virginia. hello. caller: yes, good afternoon, mr. pickens. i worked as a mechanic for over 30 years in a chemical plant. and we followed a lot of strict safety rules. also as a mechanic we did a lot of prevention maintenance work. my question is do you think that bp s preventative maintenance program failed? is it a big result of this disaster that we re going through now? no, i don t think it was a maintenance problem at all. larry: because? i think that i thing problem was, first, didn t run the centralizer. second, they got a bad cement job. and did not run the cement bond