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.

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.

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.

Norway has oil and NATO, Iceland has fish and NATO and Finland has the EU. Without it, we would be economically weaker and have less security.

Bigness matters in the oil business. Companies want to get bigger and stronger. With Triton, Hess moves up another peg so they now have more entrée into a variety of areas.

Only by actually reaping some of the companies' windfall for American motorists and regulating the refining business can this oil company profiteering be brought under control.