It used to be that a company could hide an oil spill in a distant land. Now the media and activists are quick to pick up and spread the news.

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.

Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the last three months,

My freshman summer, I earned $4,000 a month for my job [for an oil company].

Oil company profiteering, not increased production costs, are the cause of the price spikes at the gasoline pump. Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering.

We purchased land, had it developed, and it was ready to go for a company that would be coming in the area.