The U.S. must concentrate on securing new and alternative energy resources as well as investing in nuclear power, said former secretary of state Colin Powell at a Houston World Affairs Council program recently. Powell spoke on a number of geopolitical topics and on energy. Powell is currently a strategic limited partner for Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a California-based venture-capital company with investments in, among other ventures, communication companies that provide software and services for the oil and gas industry. The fiery speech Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivered to the United Nations demonstrated poor leadership skills, Powell said. "Hugo Chavez was at the U.N. making a fool of himself, blaming the U.S. But he was elected, so you have to put up with him." For more on this, see the January issue of Oil and Gas Investor. For a subscription, call 713-260-6441.