The industry wasn't 100 percent convinced that prices would stay high. We're just now at the point where they're starting to spend more.

our royalties ? could be as high as 10 percent of total system prices.

It's a substantial amount. It's many, many years of supply for current demands.

We haven't gone up in decades. It's very important, not only to the companies but to the United States.

In a way, the left is controlling that agenda. They're just implementing it at the community and state level.

The U.S. economy is a very strong economy; if there is a sudden cutoff of Saudi oil, and Americans suddenly have to pay a lot more to get gasoline, we'll do it.