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Say the name T. Boone Pickens and you think: legendary Texas oilman and corporate raider. Think a little more and you might remember he bankrolled the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry with a $3 million contribution. So what are we to make of this soaring leap into green energy by a Texas money man with impeccable right wing credentials?

Listen to this money quote from today's New York Times story on the boom in wind energy in Texas:

“I have the same feelings about wind,” Mr. Pickens said in an interview, “as I had about the best oil field I ever found.”