By now everyone has seen the ads from T. Boone Pickens pushing his latest project at PickensPlan.com, which promotes wind power, and downplays oil. Here are a few excerpts from his website:America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil.On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we're organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes towards cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources.To get this done, I need your help. Check out the plan. If you think it's worth fighting for, please join our effort.There is something odd about this: here is a Texas oil man, complete with the Texas Twang, like a character out of the 1968 John Wayne movie Hellfighters, telling us we can't...(Read Full Post)