> > Who else will look at the success of big oil and say, "Hey, we can do that!"?
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> This is the way the punctuation should be. You're quoting a hypothetical someone that uses an exclamation point, so logic says that the exclamation point goes inside the quotations. This quote is inside a question that you are posing, so the quotation marks close before your question mark.
>
> Blame it on our fellow Americans for using an illogical system for quoting people. The British version works just fine.
>
> -FP

Well, that may be explained by the fact that most of my ancestors were British. Could you call that genetic punctuation?
Howard