It'd be a much more expensive venture, because then you're looking at the Department of Public Aid possibly picking up the tab.

Right now we're covering 240 square miles, but we're going to be pulling that in related to the transportation costs -- between the gas prices and bus maintenance. When a bus goes down for us it can be real issue. Nothing's cheap.

We develop these tools in tandem with the forecasters. They know what they're looking for from us to aid the forecasting problem.

I think what you're going to see going forward is that public investors and also venture capitalists and the whole chain of investors are going to be much more discriminating in their investments,

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking for the giant fields because mature fields are declining.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.