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T. Boone Pickens’ plan to build a gigantuous wind farm in Texas is being held up thanks to a drop in natural-gas prices and the credit crunch. “With natural gas prices where they are, you can’t kick off a wind project, you’re not economical,” Pickens said on Tuesday, adding the next day, “When you’re talking financing — big financing — well those talks have ceased because nobody has any money.” His own billionaire-ism excluded, we presume.