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: Everone starts talking about the potentials of wind .The demand for wind power does not increase as fast as it did .Everyone switches back to using gasoline for energy .None of the above choices .