Let's get serious. Your plan costs too much. If you really cared about our country you would tell the truth. Oil is our future. Yes foreign oil is part of our problem. The root of that problem is that we don't drill enough of our own. We shouldn't import any foreign oil and don't have to. We have more under our soil than in all of the middle east. OUR oil can fund your plan. It can offer investment into alternative fuels, slowly implementing new technologies and retrofitting our current vehicles and homes. Let's get serious.

I supported Mr. Pickens Plan for the past year and I also have been for Natural Gas Powered Long Haul Trucks that supply our country, but all of a sudden Mr. Pickens has DROPPED THE BALL ON NATURAL GAS FOR OUR COUTRIES SUPPLY NEEDS and is now focused almost solely on Wind Power which he has an interest in. As he says, first, I am an American, I have a real hard time now believing him now under any circumstance and most of all almost any and all politicians that run our country. The so called power brokers are taking our county down a road that NO AMERICAN wants, how do we as americans stop the politicians and power brokers, before it is to late. Comments Gruby648@comcast.net

I'm a believer in the Pickens Plan, but I also am looking for information on what happened to converting our nations trucks to natural gas. This can be a big boon (no pun intended) to cutting the greenhouse gas emissions. What's going on with that?

KEN BLEVENS, why don't you "get serious". You have no idea what you are talking about. Nothing in your response is true. Do you read anything? Get the facts before sticking your foot in your mouth. I suggest you read Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman - and believe it!

I don't think Pickens has dropped the ball on anything. Natural gas is less "sexy" than wind, so perhaps that's why he's more focused on wind of late. He certainly has helped push "green" issues onto the front burner with people, including a great many who did not (and do not) have any faith in our reasonably green President. So, in that regard, he has and continues to perform a great public service. Of course he has a self-interest; how many times does the man have to say he wants to make money out of this? He has openly said so any number of times. And just what's wrong with that? As lon g as he makes it honestly, why would anyone object? I can darned sure promise you if *I* had his resources and could have built a wind farm feeding into a grid over which I had considerable control of in which I had a substantial investment, I would have done so -- without apology. Is the only way to be seen as doing worthy service to do so and simultaneously go bankrupt??? I must say I was rather taken aback (to put it mildly and politely) by Mr. Blevens comment. I wonder if he lives in some pristine place, maybe high up in the Rockies, far from any towns of any size. I live smack dab in the middle of Bangkok, with some of the filthiest air and water around. Forget global warming. Forget green. And forget even if Bangkok was sitting atop a vast reserve of the highest grade oil imaginable (which it isn't, by the way) -- I'd STILL argue for clean air and water. The World Health Organization reported some years ago that the average person engaged in the average mix of indoor and outdoor activities in central Bangkok is exposed to the same dangers as another person living in an absolutely pristine environment who smokes about an entire pack of cigarettes daily. Though I'm a smoker (leave it), I find it grotesque that people here who aren't smokers have to breath in the garbage we get from the wonders of oil. (And it's no benefit to us smokers, either!) Remember those small windmills that used to populate the Midwest? I grew up on a small ranch in Texas, and we had one next to a pig barn. Not only did it draw water into an overhead storage tank, put it provided enough power to light the barn. With blades spanning maybe 5 feet, total. And that was *old* technology -- the windmill was years old when my folks bought the place in 1952. Further, that is in north Texas, about midway between the DFW area and the Oklahoma state line, hardly the windiest part of the state. Happened to speak with my Sister just yesterday, who still lives on the farm and who has long been not only pro-oil but out-and-out anti-green of much anything. But she told me she's entirely nonplussed that her electric bills haven't dropped a cent since it soared last year as oil spiraled up -- despite its drop to a fraction of its high back then. And now she's actively seeking information regarding alternative energy sources. One doesn't have to be a wild-eyed tree-hugger to support development of alternative energy. Yes, there's debate about just when oil will finally, really, truly run out. But even if that doesn't happen for a thousand years, what's *wrong* with beginning the move away from it now? And even if global warming is a figment of Gore's imagination (which I absolutely think it's most assuredly NOT), what's *wrong* with clean air, water, and soil??? I'll tell you what: not a damned thing.