Everyone has probably seen the T. Boone Pickens media blitz about wind power on TV. I think the ads are misleading because wind power is not a complete solution. Wind power can never provide a major portion of electric power. Windmills are only online about 30% of the time, so can never provide base power. Nuclear and coal power stations respond too slowly to backup the windmills, so natural gas fired electric power stations will be required to backup the windmills. (T. Boone sells natural gas.) The main thing the nation needs now is transportation fuel. Natural gas can be that fuel, but that cannot happen overnight. (Iran has a program for converting their cars to run on natural gas because they have no gasoline refiners and so are under the threat of having their gasoline supply cut off.) It takes a lot of infrastructure to set up refueling stations for natural gas, and to convert the existing automobiles to run on natural gas as well as gasoline. Then, it will take a lot of drilling to get the natural gas to fuel the automobiles. (By the way, natural gas running in internal combustion engines produces less CO2 than gasoline; methane has four hydrogen atoms per carbon atom compared to roughly two for gasoline.) Here is an article about T. Boone's plan for American Thinker.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/the_pickens_plan_only_one_part.html