[DustyMoment]

You don't really know what's there until you go out and drill a well," said Ken Medlock, an energy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. "And even then, you're not 100 percent sure of what you're going to get."

Noticew they were careful not to ask a real oilman because they wouldn't have gotten the answer they wanted. Instead, they get a researcher whose entire life occurs within the walls of a university.

Not a real credible source, IMO.

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Noticew they were careful not to ask a real oilman because they wouldn't have gotten the answer they wanted. Instead, they get a researcher whose entire life occurs within the walls of a university.

When a Republican administration wants to learn something about the oil bidness, they ask oilmen.

When a Democrat administration wants to learn something about the oil bidness, they ask academics and lawyers, i.e., "experts".