So now Pickens is NOT aligned with Gore on energy?

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Pickens’ plan has been well-received by lots of environmentalists for its role in boosting wind power. (He’s a fan of solar, too.) His ideas aren’t exactly green, though. The thrust of his plan is about reducing foreign oil dependency, not greenhouse gases. Although he admits it won’t do much to increase our supplies, Pickens favors off-shore drilling and opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, something most environmentalists don’t get behind. Not too many environmentalists are on board with his embrace of nuclear power, either, or of his support for non-traditional fuels like oil shale and oil sands.

When Al Gore announced his challenge to switch to renewables completely in 10 years to combat global warming, Pickens begged to differ. He issued a statement criticizing Gore’s plan for doing nothing to combat foreign oil dependence.

“It is clear that he and I have two very different objectives and our plans should be viewed with that in mind,” Pickens said in a statement.

Remember just two or three weeks ago, when we thought Pickens was "on the side of Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi with his energy plan", and when we read this:

Pickens told the National Journal that, "I think I would be for Al Gore for energy czar [in an Obama administration]."

Pickens said that he and Gore agree on about 95 percent of their respective energy plans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited Pickens to speak before the Democratic Caucus.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that, while Pickens was once a "mortal enemy," they are now friends because of the oilman's conversion to alternative energy.

Then there's Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club, who not only flies in Pickens' private jet but writes paeans about him on the liberal Huffington Post blog.

"T. Boone Pickens is out to save America," Pope wrote on July 3.