I blame the government. We're more dependent on foreign oil than we ever were and I blame (President) Bush for that.

We started to supply the tankers with oil products after the government promised to secure them along the highways.

There (would) be demonstrations in (Iranian) streets calling for the government to cut off oil exports.

A weaker dollar, continued geopolitical concerns, weak government data, and higher oil prices have all been factors that have pushed gold higher in the last several days.

We only expected parts of the oil and gas reserves to go back to the hands of the Bolivian government, but not 100 percent.

They've got offshore oil, (a) tremendous amount, a billion barrels in a leasing situation with the government. So they're going to be able to capitalize on it very soon.