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"FacebookPinterest\n\nPickens\u2014who funded the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort, which undermined Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004\u2014has taken up a nonpartisan cause this election: He is spending close to $60 million to fund and promote the Pickens Plan, which advocates switching to natural gas and wind energy to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. \n\nWhen did you decide to launch the Pickens Plan? \n\n In the middle of June. That's when I decided that people didn't understand energy in America. And it seemed like it was up to somebody, and I thought, \"Well, hell, go do it.\" It was such a critical problem for the country, and it wasn't being told; I had to seize the moment. The $4 gasoline helped me, but I was gonna go anyway. It was such a concern to me for the country, I had to elevate it to the number one issue in the campaign.\n\nWhen this election is over and you look back on the efforts that were made, what would you want your role to have been?\n\n That we came out of this election with an energy plan that makes sense. That we could reduce our dependency on foreign oil up to 50 percent working together as a country\u2014some of it by conservation, but also changing over to a fuel we have in America. When the American people rally best is when it's war&amp;amp;#x2013;they'll sacrifice then. This is war. Because of the dependency on foreign oil, it's war. And we can work together. Natural gas is cheaper, it's cleaner, it's abundant, and it's ours&amp;amp;#x2013;and that is key to the whole thing. And with a cheaper fuel and a better fuel, we can win the war.\n\nClick here to read more provocative, revealing interviews with the men and women behind the most epic presidential race of our lifetime."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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