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The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.