Any company can double its stock price. We believe our stock price is still undervalued based on our oil and gas assets and the (Big Island) real estate still to be valued.

We're evaluating various opportunities in real estate, as well as in the oil and gas business with the increased revenues we've been receiving. We're planning to invest the oil and gas capital commensurate with the increased revenue.

As long as there's unrest in the Middle East and troops in Iraq, commodity prices will remain high. Oil and gas companies are spending greater amounts of capital investing in exploration and development, which is our particular niche, and that's going to generate a lot of projects in the coming years.

Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the last three months,

My freshman summer, I earned $4,000 a month for my job [for an oil company].

Oil company profiteering, not increased production costs, are the cause of the price spikes at the gasoline pump. Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering.