31.   Forecasts of the future price of oil are based on the complex interaction of OPEC politics and production, as well as world oil reserves and demand.

32.   For more than two decades Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil reserves, successfully walled itself off from the world beyond.

33.   Framed on a wall is the slender gold pen he used two decades ago to nationalize the largest oil reserves in the Americas.

34.   Given their oil reserves, the Saudis apparently have lifetime immunity from righteous U.S. anger.

35.   Gore has opened up the strategic oil reserve and doubts about his beliefs.

36.   He cautioned against a use of the strategic oil reserve.

37.   He retains large oil reserves, and perhaps even an ability to build weapons of mass destruction.

38.   He warned that nations with big oil reserves must compete with the rest of the world for capital and expertise by offering oil companies like Mobil favorable investment terms.

39.   He told German executives at the conference that Kazakhstan is second only to Saudi Arabia in terms of oil reserves.

40.   I also had a long conversation with Gore about offshore oil reserves.