Pickens' Energy Plan Getting National Attention STILLWATER, OK (kccu-fm) - Oil baron and Oklahoma native Boone Pickens says his plan to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil is getting a lot of public attention.

Pickens says he's had more than 5 million visits to his Web site. And he plans to spend $44 million to advertise the Pickens Plan, which promotes wind power and natural gas.

Pickens says it's a security problem for the country to spend $700 billion a year to import oil.

Pickens drives a natural-gas-powered Honda Civic. He says there are 8 million vehicles in the world on natural gas but only 142,000 in the U.S.

Pickens is a 1951 graduate of Oklahoma State University's geology program. He's given $400 million to his alma mater.

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