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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkhullar" data-source="post: 360108" data-attributes="member: 55799"><p>Weststar was too small to be one of the large oil companies in the 90s. The company was one of the top major oil companies but it wasn't anywhere near the size of Exxon and the major seven sisters so let's get that straight from the beginning. The company was so weak that actually it couldn't take on all the independents. Combine the wealth of Cliff Barnes Jr Ewing everybody it still wouldn't have been enough to top Exxon or mobile or any of the others but it would have been enough to take over Weststar. Think about what I'm telling you here. When Jr tried to take over the company 70% of the stock was held by just a handful of investors. A company like that is destined to become an independent if someone is serious about putting that kind of money in there and that's exactly what happened in 1998 if you watch more of the ewings Jr took the whole thing over. He now was the soul owner of westar and he ripped Bobby about westar being the largest independent in Texas. So I contend that the 200 million dollars of westar stock he got from Jock share to John Ross that's not enough to take over a real major Oil company in 1998. But it was enough to take over something like westar because westar in the process of trying to go after the independents lost a lot of its resources. You bully someone long enough you're likely to become bullied yourself and run to the ground and that's exactly what happened to that company. Jr took it over and he never let go.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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