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“T Boone Pickens and Al Gore have proposed bold plans to radically reduce America’s addiction to fossil fuels. These two gadflies just might provide enough bite to provoke the next president to swifter action. Mr. Pickens argues that using wind power for electricity and powering vehicles with domestic natural gas can replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports within 10 years. If nothing is done, the conservative Texas oilman says, the US will send $10 trillion out of the country in the next decade, ‘the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind,’ he says. Building wind-powered generators in the heartland of America and new transmission lines would cost $1.2 trillion but it would make America the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind power, he says.” (07/22/08)