Path of Least Resistance

It's a force to be reckoned with:

T Boone Pickens is absolutely right: we can't go on transferring a trillion a year to the middle east... Whether his conclusion, that we ought to convert to wind power, is correct is another matter. It doesn't look as useful as nuclear, but there are fewer environmental fanatics opposed to wind. I suspect that energy economics is more determined by law suits than by engineering.

That answers one of my questions "Where's the nuclear in Picken's Plan?"