He sees $75 per barrel by year’s end, but he’s no fan of Obama’s tax plans:

Separately, Pickens said, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to raise taxes on oil and natural gas companies is a bad idea.
“They’re on their back right now because with prices like they are, you shut down 500 or 600 rigs already,” he said. “You want to get those people back to work, and you don’t do it by raising taxes.”

I thought all those out of work people were going to get jobs installing the Pickens windmills from sea-to-shining-sea?