Well, it really isn’t a plan at all, argues Holman Jenkins in today’s Wall Street Journal. Read his piece here.

“Talk is cheap. Talk favors radical solutions to get rid of problems that we are all sick and tired of hearing about. Calls for Manhattan Projects and moon shots invariably decorate the op-ed pages at such times. In a form of social peacockery, the greater the misallocation of resources proposed, the more lavish the ovation — though here Mr. Pickens has already been outdone by Al Gore.”

Take that.