Forty percent doesn't seem reasonable.

It's about the camaraderie. Not all go in every year. If it was 0 degrees, I wouldn't go in. Forty degrees, that's fine.

Forty percent of [shoppers] come from outside a 150-mile radius, ... If they have a long layover at the airport they can pop on over to the mall and take a nap and sort of escape it all.

What is reasonable to say is that (the Alaska refuge) could represent between 5 and 10 percent of our national production for a period of 20 to 30 years.

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

Eventually, airlines have to buy airplanes. They become economically inefficient because of fuel consumption.