Photo: Pickens Plan Reality Check: Energy Freedom or Farce?

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Texas oil and gas developer T. Boone Pickens presents his Pickens Plan for U.S. energy independence at a meeting in Kansas on July 30, 2008.

The plan aims to replace natural gas-fueled power plants with wind-driven ones and to greatly increase the use of natural gas to power cars. Critics contend that the Pickens Plan is expensive and inefficient.

Photograph by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images

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