This from WSJ...
The 'Idle' Oil Field Fallacy'.
People who bothered themselves to learn something about the oil business explain what the ignorant editorial writers at the New York Times couldn't be bothered to discover.
It's one thing to have an honest disagreement with the left and have a reasoned debate over policies. But it's quite another thing when the left's propaganda organs undertake to make outright lies in defense of their position.
And, all too often, that is the only means of defense they have...
Pickens certainly has looked into the possibility of expanding supply by drilling offshore and in ANWAR and rejected it as unrealistic. I don't have access to his thinking but, no doubt, it is similar to that of Simmons and Goodstein and many others.