T. Boone Pickens, the legendary Texas oilman, has been on a bit of a media blitz over the past few days, promoting wind-power, of all things. This isn't a new cause for Pickens -- he's a proponent of "peak oil theory", and has been developing an enormous wind farm in Texas for a few years now, after seeing several major international energy companies come into his state and start their own. Over the past few days, Pickens has launched TV ads, a website (PickensPlan), and had an op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal (My Plan to Escape the Grip of Foreign Oil).His plan to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil focuses on three sources of energy, although for obvious reasons he goes into great detail on only two of them - wind and natural gas.My plan calls for taking the energy generated by wind and using it to replace a significant percentage of the natural gas that is now being used to fuel our power plants. Today, natural gas accounts for about 22% of our electricity...(Read Full Post)