Considering where prices are now, flirting with their record level of August 2005 (70.85 dollars a barrel on August 30), OPEC has no justification for reducing the flow of oil.

It's often said there is not one world market for natural gas, but three regional markets, Europe, North America and Asia.

But even if the chance of OPEC cutting production is almost zero, Iran is interested in letting people think it is ready to use the oil weapon.

I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.

Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.