Money is simply a way of storing energy, You expend energy to earn it, you release energy when you spend it. But money is a very inefficent form of energy storage. Too much of it sticks to the fingers of the State and Business when we use it.

As the Industrial Workers of the World said in 1905 "The Working Class and the Employing Class have nothing in common."I will accept Capitalism when we start counting Social Capital and Environmental Capital.

Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself.

No throwing rocks at other boats. I think that's the only one.

These are just some efficient ways without spending a lot of taxpayer money [to reduce energy costs ]. But if you get $ 3 [a gallon ] gasoline, people may say, 'I don't know if I want to live in Benton and drive to work in Little Rock. I may live in Little Rock.' But it's really hard. You're talking about people's lifestyles. It probably will happen gradually.

[The rise in energy costs caused by Katrina is] going to start taking money out of people's pockets that they would have spent on something else, ... Look for the (impact) in the earnings of discount retailers, restaurants, and travel sectors - start to look for GDP to be impacted.