A top story on CNN.com from last July, Oil billionaire Pickens puts his money on wind power, is a breath of fresh air. First, T-Boone Pickens states the obvious (unless you’re a politician in the thrall of other Texas oil billionaires that only break wind):

“Our dependence on imported oil is killing our economy. It is the single biggest problem facing America today,” he said.

But T-Boone moved beyond whining to release “The Pickens Plan, which “calls for investing in domestic renewable resources such as wind, and switching from oil to natural gas as a transportation fuel,” and will, he claims, reduce our reliance on foreign oil by “more than one-third”.

Just listen to what this radical hippy environmental wacko Republican moneybags / Bush and Swift Boat funder has to say:

“Wind power is … clean, it’s renewable. It’s everything you want. And it’s a stable supply of energy,” Pickens told CNN in May. “It’s unbelievable that we have not done more with wind.”

Of course, T. Boone’s Mesa Power is poised to blanket Texas with wind turbines and turn all that hot air into cold hard cash. But hey, it sure beats oil, and if someone this conservative can invest in alternative energy, then it should send a strong signal to others that the time to jump is now.