Getting smart, finally

From a New York Times on-line article:
"Texas, once the oil capital of North America, is rapidly turning into the capital of wind power. After breakneck growth the last three years, Texas has reached the point that more than 3 percent of its electricity, enough to supply power to one million homes, comes from wind turbines. Texans are even turning tapped-out oil fields into wind farms."
"No less an oilman than Boone Pickens is getting into alternative energy. 'I have the same feelings about wind', Mr. Pickens said in an interview, 'as I had about the best oil field I ever found'.”
"Dandy’s Western Wear, the local cowboy attire shop, cannot keep enough python skin and cowhide boots in stock because of all the Danes and Germans who have come to town to invest and work in the wind fields, then take home Texas souvenirs."
“Texas has been looking at oil and gas rigs for 100 years, and frankly, wind turbines look a little nicer,” said Jerry Patterson, the Texas land commissioner, whose responsibilities include leasing state lands for wind energy development. “We’re Number One in wind in the United States, and that will never change.”

Rico says Texans being Number One in wind is an old story...