National Geographic: “I’m T. Boone Pickens. I’ve been an oilman all my life, but this is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of. And I have a plan. … ” The twangy entreaties of a Texas tycoon have been filling the pre-election airwaves in the U.S. TV ads for the so-called Pickens Plan have gotten many Americans thinking about wind power and natural gas-fueled cars as ways to reduce dependence on foreign oil. The plan’s environmental claims have even won the conservative oilman some strange …