This document includes a letter by Lucian Platt written to Foreign Affairs magazine in response to Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins’ article from 2001, “Fool’s Gold in Alaska”. In that article, the authors argue against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In this response, Platt accuses the authors of providing misinformation and overstatements. The authors respond to Platt’s accusations with additional references and data. For the complete article, see “Fool’s Gold in Alaska” (document ID E01-03).