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DNC: Yay for T. Boone!

Posted on August 27, 2008

By David RobertsI'm here at an panel on the Pickens Plan, featuring Carl Pope of the Sierra Club, John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, and T. Boone himself. (And I have internet access!) Most interesting tidbit to come from the panel: T. Boone had a 30 second commercial that began, Iran is moving its vehicle fleet to natural gas so it can sell oil to us at $140 a barrel. And we're doing absolutely nothing about it. NBC rejected the ad! They said, can you prove we're doing nothing about it? (I've tried to find the commercial online -- I'll post it if I can track it down.) O...

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