RE:Good article about trying to safe the dividendIn the short term all the executives will say they want to protect the dividend above all else. In CPG's case, if the stock stays where it is, they will. They will simply sell more stock, dilute the investors, but keep the dividend. The problem is that if oil prices stay where they are, as investor see the hedges start to expire, they will start to sell. As the stock price starts to go down and down, eventually management will see that protecting the dividend is not giving them the strong stock price it did before...and then they will cut it.