Questionable motives in Picken's Plan

T. Boone Pickens, one of the villains involved with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign, was on Real Time with Bill Maher over the weekend. Pickens, in touting his plan, plays up the energy crisis that faces this country:

Confronting the energy crisis is a good thing. Confronting it with green solutions, such as wind, would be responsible. Unfortunately, the assumptions within the Pickens Plan are not exactly realistic. What's more, the plan itself may simply be a legal way to grab land that private owners would otherwise not want to sell to Picken's other company, Mesa Water. It would have been nice to see Bill Maher speak to this in his interview instead of blowing smoke up his ass.