Keep your eye on the ballLook at the big picture and keep your eye onthe ball. Does anyone reading this message really believe that consumption of oil and gas is going down over time? Of course not! Energy consumption is rising around the world and energy production must keep up with it or prices are going to skyrocket. Now google Gazprom and Europe. Is there any doubt that Russian based Gazprom is and will be one of the leading suppliers of natural gas to Europe and China? Gazprom and its subsidiaries are exploring and expanding all the time in Russia, the former Soviet bloc countries (including NIS Petrol in Romania), the Middle East and South America. After spending $50 million in permitting and seismic studies, etc. in Western Romania, East West Petroleum's partner, Gazprom majority owned, NIS Petrol, is on the cusp of producing vast amounts of oil and gas from the prolific Panonian Basin in Western Romania. We now have, in essense, a stock price in East West Petroleum that is equivalent to a call option on the future of energy and Gazprom's ability to extract it from the one million acres of ground leased by East West Petroleum. This is an unbelievably bullish set of circumstances and scenario for success and upside potential for the shareholders of NIS Petrol and East West Petroleum. Yet, as human nature is what it is, some shareholders have given up hope after several years of holding a stock that has been going down in price. The old addage is going to apply here. Buy low and sell high. Folks, we are at or near the low and the future has never looked brighter. EW income is going to skyrocket over the next few years and costs are very well controlled. Dylan Sidoo joined the Board and got an option for 500,000 shares at around 13 cents. The Russians know, the Sidoo's know and I know that over the next couple or several years, those 500,000 shares are going to be worth 10 times the amount they are worth now, approximately $5 million. To those people who think it is an intelligent decision to dump $500 to $1,000 worth of shares at a time for 8 or 9 cents per share, you are simply foolish and obviously desperate. In the meantime, I keep buying. GLTA. Vikingman.