RE: Removing Posts AgainI did run my business and I do "read" financial statements maybe more thorough then most people and I do hear about the oil patch more than you think and so can gather what is going on. As for donations to hospitals, universities and other organizations, that is nice, but also just a token and is not their business but the governments' or individuals.
#1 for any public company is to make money for its shareholders and to do so they will have to produce something good for the public.All other things are self serving and/or window dressing.
Bureaucracy and greed has clouded the minds of large companies as well as big Governments and this attempt by governing by consensus is not really govern at all, it is dictating by the economic strong ones and stealing from the economic weak ones.
That's the way I see it!