The message is clear about the impact of energy. If by some chance the cost of oil were to reach $100 per barrel, the future for many small businesses would be uncertain.

It brings it back to oil. As long as energy is making new highs, Treasuries will rally.

People were thinking that, if the oil refineries take a direct hit, energy prices would shoot up and it would have a bigger impact on the economy.

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

The president's initiative ties an oil savings target to a basket of energy solutions for homes and businesses, which have nothing to do with our oil problem.