You may have seen the television commercials with T. Boone Pickens, a multi-millionaire who made his money in oil and is now trying to double up selling wind. That is wind as in wind power-as in hundreds and hundreds of wind turbines to generate electricity.

That's why I find it more than strange that Picken's television and print ads all start off talking about oil. In the current edition of Business Week magazine he has a full-page ad with a headline that says "It's time to stop America's addiction to foreign oil."

Well, first of all, we are not "addicted." We buy foreign oil because, back in the 1980s the White House and Congress set out to reduce domestic oil exploration and drilling. It was and it is a deliberate policy in which the U.S. guarantees the security of Middle Eastern nations so they can sell us their oil instead... [continue via Web link]