RE:THIS IS STILL TO SMALL BUYER NEEDEDYou have to plan for the future. Oil prices are on a bull run and supposedly for a few years. You gutta spend money to make money. I like managements choice of buying Astra. I'm glad Paul is not sitting on his hands while Oil prices continue to go higher. He is not a chicken little. He is making moves. No risk no reward. Consolidation is not a bad thing. Institutional investors don't want to invest in a penny stock. It will open the stock up to bigger investors. That's my Yap!