OKLAHOMA CITY — As he prepares to address a wind-power conference in Oklahoma, billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens said it shouldn’t seem strange that he is interested in wind and other alternative energy sources.
“It’s not totally unrelated to the oil business,” Pickens told The Associated Press. “It’s an energy business. It’s easy for [...]

By MURRAY EVANS The Associated Press
Curtis Raines describes himself as “just a dumb old farmer” who’s not afraid to ask an obvious question: Why grow corn for fuel when it could be used to feed hungry people?
“That just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” Raines said.
The 64-year-old Guymon, Okla., farmer is growing [...]