It depends upon how the oil companies and distributors determine the price that they think the market will bear. So it's a very market driven competitive type of situation.

The expectation is that (gasoline) prices will be higher (in May-June) than they were a year ago, but how much higher? Who knows.

I believe working with clay will be my primary expression. But life is unpredictable. I find that fact exciting.

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.

Higher oil prices may be partly passed through to core inflation at least for a time,

The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. It's bizarre to think that this war had nothing to do with oil. The war misses the criteria that I learned in school that is needed for a just war... Oil is a blessing and a curse for Iraq.