10 Questions for T. Boone Pickens

Do you envision an energy plan that will eventually lead to the U.S. no longer being dependent on fossil fuels? Paul Frost, IONIA, MICH.

That'll be a long time off. What I envision is we're going to have to use every resource we have. I want to get off of foreign oil. When I say off foreign oil, I'm O.K. with Canadian oil. I'm O.K. with oil from Mexico. In 10 years, if I was running the operation, I think I could have us where we had reduced oil by 50%.

If you believe that we need cleaner, more independent sources...