how much money has t boone pickens spent on his television commercials?

[spanone]

just curious, anyone in the ad business?

they seem to be on 24/7 nationwide????

[Ian David]

1. Why is he swiftboating Carbon? n/t

[spanone]

2. i don't have an opinion on his 'plan' yet, but i suspect he's got some real cash invested in the tv

[Ian David]

22. Would have been cheaper for him if he'd just let Kerry win last time. n/t

[Earth_First]

3. Not sure, but the repetition and placement of ads in Upstate NY is strange... n/t

[tomg]

6. We're also getting them in the Hudson

Valley constantly.

[Stinky The Clown]

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.

[spanone]

5. from friends, it appears it coast to coast...

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Good question, who is getting all that money?

And what will that entity be doing with it?

[TheFarseer]

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.

[wtmusic]

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.

[ladjf]

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.

[JuniperLea]

9. In Los Angeles too...

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.

[wtmusic]

11. It's called natural gas

and there's nothing up his sleeve, except possibly his transparent attempt to greenwash it.

[JuniperLea]

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.

[wtmusic]

16. The Honda Civic GX is available right now

and there will be many more in the near future.

[wtmusic]

10. He claims $10M so far

in his interview on CNBC, where the talking heads slavishly fawned over him.

[Uncle Joe]

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?

[tridim]

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.

[lynettebro440]

17. I was just commenting on this last night

I see them at least 10 times a night. Way more then political commercials.

[Fuzz]

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.

[spanone]

21. if we convert to wind and alternate sources t.boone wants to own it.maybe greed will be impetus

[erpowers]

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.

[seabeyond]

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.