egan::Timothy Egan::The Oil Man Cometh

Timothy Egan’s contribution to the Opinion section this week is a guest Op-Ed column. There he is, the sound of money in a wizened Texas drawl, the tired realist looking a bit like the John Huston character from “Chinatown” as he warns in national television ads that we should just listen here and do as he says. And what the 80-year-old T. Boone Pickens says, in a $58 million campaign, is that we can’t drill our way to lower gas... [read full story]