Billionaire Texas financier T. Boone Pickens‘ BP Capital commodity fund dropped in value by 34% in July, according to figures obtained by the New York Post.

Fortunately for Pickens, he has a plan to move away from volatile oil. It’s called the Pickens Plan. It involves converting US cars to run on natural gas instead of petroleum and devleoping a massive wind farm in Texas.

Floyd Brown at Investment U says Pickens has a history of being in the right place and the right time and profiting handsomely. Floyd has picked four stocks to help you follow Pickens’ lead into natural gas and wind energy…

I walked into the University Place Branch of Bank of America on Saturday morning and was eyewitness to a shocking run on the bank. An unruly crowd had taken over the lobby of the branch. Every station in the normally deserted suburban banking center was full of customers.

This is not the kind of thing you hear often in contrarian investing circles.

According to Jeremey Siegel, a professor of finance in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvannia. “Stocks remain your best investment for the long run. Neither bonds nor gold can match stocks if you have an adequate time horizon.”

Gold bugs Bill Bonner and The Mogambo Guru may disagree. But Floyd Brown at InvestmentU.com says “given the bank and mortgage defaults and the depressing results of stocks this summer, Siegel’s message was reassuring and full of optimism.”