Several days ago, after going on Pickens' website http://push.pickensplan.com/ , I posted a thread expressing my distaste of his lining his pockets with this plan.

I can visualize Mr. Pickens and a few other "good ole boys" sittin' around one evening talking about how to turn their natural gas options into money. This looks to me like a solution that could have come from such a round table discussion.

He has stated publicly that he considers windmills ugly and will not have them on his property. What kind of statement is that to make if you're trying to push them off on others?

It's absolutely true that we must act to do something, but I'm not convinced that this is the answer. At least not after learning that windmills will produce energy less than 10% of the time when it is needed.