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Pickens, Gore Sidestep Differences in Alternative-Energy Quest

The most unlikely alliance in this election year hasn’t come out of any political campaign. It’s in the convergence of interests between billionaire oilman and Republican Party backer T. Boone Pickens and former vice president turned environmentalist Al Gore.Gore, the Democratic Party’s 2000 standard-bearer, and Pickens, who helped bankroll the group that questioned Democrat John Kerry’s war record in the 2004 presidential race, are pursuing separate paths toward a shared goal: cutting U.S. dependence on oil.

Pickens said he and Gore have had “several conversations” about their complementary campaigns to overhaul the U.S. energy menu and usher in a new era of wind farms, natural gas pumps and solar panels.

“We have to get the country off the $700 billion a year it spends on foreign oil,” Pickens said in a telephone interview from his ranch in the Texas panhandle. “It’s a killer and is going to cause our economy great problems.”

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