John Olson Quotations

We're shooting to begin surfacing in May 2006, ... Most construction should be complete by the end of 2006.

I'm a little concerned -- I'm in favor of a strong regulatory regime, but I'm not sure we've got it quite right structurally yet,

My whole business has been subjected to a meltdown,

Looking at a number of forecasters out there in the gas marketing community, the price of gas is expected to drop...to about $4.80 by August and then recover to about the $8 area by January.

It feels like the only things left in south Louisiana are snakes and alligators. Houston is positioned for a boom.

We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.

Even in Lansing, there were gigs happening almost every night.

I've seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.

It would be nice to give it more thought, ... but I understand the need to get cracking and not let the perfect be the enemy of the possible.

The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good,

Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

This is as high a high-wire act as I have ever seen. If this merger is to survive, equity investors will need to have a reason to buy the stock and their confidence will need to be restored, because the equity investor has been leading the way down.

It's basically silly season up there. In essence, as long as the United States is such a tremendously energy-intensive country, as long as China, India and the like are clawing their way up the consumption curve, we're going to have tight markets.

The board cannot be expected to surrender its authority to another branch of government; there is a fundamental issue of separation of powers here.

They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.

They win on the income statement. They win on the balance sheet. And they win on the cash flow statement.

Candy's views on matters of public policy are something that I never try to influence, ... The notion that her decisions could be influenced by matters that affect my law firm is off the charts.

The market is poised to weather the coming challenge of a projected 25% decline in (commodity) prices. How much the market discounts into the future remains to be seen. I'm telling you in the next five months gas prices might fall as much as 25%, according to some seasoned industry observers...and then recover smartly. The stock market is fickle. It probably is heading into a little heavier weather in April and May before it begins to look at the coming heating season and look at the coming (commodity) price recovery instead of the price decline.