Yes, The World Is Now

Oil Is A Tangible Commodity, So There Is A Global Market. The Fact That We May Need Less May Affect The Global Price Because We're Big Consumers: We Probably Take About A Quarter Of Global Demand. But If Suddenly, Let's Just Use A Crazy Example, Fighting In The Middle East Led To The Closure Of The Strait Of Hormuz And No Oil Could Get Out Through The Strait Of Hormuz, Well That Would Affect China, India, Europe, It Will Affect The Whole Global Economy. It Will Affect Us, Too, Then.

There Is Something More Severe Than The Problem With Thomas Friedman, Which Can Be Generalized To Represent Someone Causing Action While Being Completely Unaccountable For His Words.

There Is Definitely Global Warming, And Man Is Definitely Contributing To It. Go Out To, Say, Montana And Talk To Some Pretty Conservative People, Hunters And Fishermen. They Know That In The Trout Stream They Fished When They Were Growing Up, The Trout Are Stressed Because The Water Temperature Is Going Up. They Know The Hunting Season Has Been Delayed Because The Snows Are Coming Later, And Therefore The Elk Aren't Coming Down From The Mountains.

If I Were Advising President Obama, Since He's The One Running, I Would Have Made His Campaign Very Simple. I Promise That In Four Years, I Will Get More Americans, As Many As I Possibly Can, The Opportunity And Access To Some Form Of Post-secondary Education. I Want More Of Them To Graduate High School With The Skill-set Of Post-secondary Education And I Want More Of Them To Be Able To Obtain That Post-secondary Education. This Is The Only Way We Are Going To Close The Income Gap.

Golf Has An Ambivalent Relationship With The Environment. On One Hand, It's A Great Preserver Of Open Spaces. Golf Doesn't Pave The World - It Helps To Green The World. But The Downside Is, It Uses A Lot Of Fertilizer, Pesticides And Water. And This Is In A World Where We Know That Synthetic Fertilizers And Pesticides Are Toxic, And Water Is More And More Scarce. Golf Could Do A Lot More.