This week’s Pickens Podcast features a very smart guy, Leif Wenar, who wrote a very smart book called “Blood Oil.” It is a serious look at the way OPEC and others have manipulated the industrialized world into dependence on their oil.

Amazon.com writes: “BLOOD OIL shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil.”

Wenar and I end up in the same place, but come at it from far different directions. Leif is a philosopher from Stanford and Harvard (now living and teaching in London). I’m a geologist from Oklahoma State University.

I think you’ll find that Professor Wenar has a unique take on what needs to be done to get America on its own resources.

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– Boone