With rising oil and gas prices and growing concerns about global warming , wind is becoming an attractive alternative . The Maple Ridge project produces enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes . Other wind projects are going up all over the state . T. Boone Pickens is talking about building a $ 10 billion wind project in the Texas panhandle . Everyone , it seems , is talking about wind . Yancey understands its seduction .

Question: What may happen if oil and gas prices did not rise ?
Answer: Wind becomes less of an attractive alternative .Everyone switches back to using gasoline for energy .Everone starts talking about the potentials of wind .None of the above choices .