You could just read about T. Boone Pickens' plan to ween U.S. off foreign oil, yawn, or you can hear the man hisself in a 10-minute video made for his Web site, where the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat financier does his best H. Ross Perot and takes to the drawing board to break like the wind (and natural gas and so forth).

Pickens' plan also got him on CNBC this morning, where he co-hosted Squawk Box and proved himself a most capable television personality. Almost Fran Tarkenton That's Incredible! good.

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