commercial ships around that zone. possible problems with ship sinkings, possible problems with terrorism. possible oil wells in these areas. the schel is heading up north of alaska this month to see if they can strike what they believe to be a huge oil find up there, 27 billion barrels of oil is what they predicted. russians think there is oil there. greenland, oil. canada, oil. it s really a gold rush. and the united states is unprepared, we re sort of last in this race. my head is actually spinning considering all of the issues that you re ticking off here. is there a game plan to figure out who s going to control what area? well, most of the think of it like this. offshore, there is a game plan because every country controls 200 miles off their shores called an exclusive economic zone. so that much is locked up. but then there s a treaty on the table called the law of the sea