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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 79633" data-attributes="member: 102">First of all thank you for keeping us up to date with the effects of the hurricane and thank you very much for helping people in need. I bet you&#039;re glad now that you bought a big truck with big tires so it can get through areas where vehicles with a lower clearance can&#039;t.As for the quote above, sorry for not replying sooner but there is something that I&#039;d like to ask you about. You called Weststar an &quot;independent&quot; oil company but I don&#039;t believe that was true. Westsar was the biggest oil company in Texas but Ewing Oil was the biggest independent oil company in Texas. This was mentioned several times throughout the series but my most vivid memory of it being explained that Weststar was not an independent was explained during the dream season. Both JR and Wendell were trying to buy Christopher&#039;s 30 percent of Ewing Oil from Pam. Jeremy explained to Pam that his offer was better because being a publicly traded company, he could and would offer her a large number of shares of Weststar stock along with the cash to pay for Christopher&#039;s 30%. Then JR talked to Pam and told her that Wendell had offered her as part of the deal, a large number of shares of Weststar stock and since Ewing was independent and not a publicly traded corporation, he couldn&#039;t match that part of the offer but he would offer her more cash instead.In season 11, it was also made clear that Weststar was a corporation with publicly traded stock. That&#039;s how anyone with money could buy as much of Weststar as they could afford and they did; even Sue Ellen bought some. JR used a plan of buying and selling at strategic times to manipulate the price of Weststar stock and therefore the value of the corporation. After they would sell off huge amounts of Weststar stock suddenly, sending the stock price tumbling, as soon as it bottomed out then they&#039;d just buy even more than they had owned before. That of course would be impossible to do with an independently owned company such as Ewing Oil since they don&#039;t have stock that anyone with money and a stockbroker can buy and sell on Wall Street.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 79633, member: 102"] First of all thank you for keeping us up to date with the effects of the hurricane and thank you very much for helping people in need. I bet you're glad now that you bought a big truck with big tires so it can get through areas where vehicles with a lower clearance can't. As for the quote above, sorry for not replying sooner but there is something that I'd like to ask you about. You called Weststar an "independent" oil company but I don't believe that was true. Westsar was the biggest oil company in Texas but Ewing Oil was the biggest independent oil company in Texas. This was mentioned several times throughout the series but my most vivid memory of it being explained that Weststar was not an independent was explained during the dream season. Both JR and Wendell were trying to buy Christopher's 30 percent of Ewing Oil from Pam. Jeremy explained to Pam that his offer was better because being a publicly traded company, he could and would offer her a large number of shares of Weststar stock along with the cash to pay for Christopher's 30%. Then JR talked to Pam and told her that Wendell had offered her as part of the deal, a large number of shares of Weststar stock and since Ewing was independent and not a publicly traded corporation, he couldn't match that part of the offer but he would offer her more cash instead. In season 11, it was also made clear that Weststar was a corporation with publicly traded stock. That's how anyone with money could buy as much of Weststar as they could afford and they did; even Sue Ellen bought some. JR used a plan of buying and selling at strategic times to manipulate the price of Weststar stock and therefore the value of the corporation. After they would sell off huge amounts of Weststar stock suddenly, sending the stock price tumbling, as soon as it bottomed out then they'd just buy even more than they had owned before. That of course would be impossible to do with an independently owned company such as Ewing Oil since they don't have stock that anyone with money and a stockbroker can buy and sell on Wall Street. [/QUOTE]

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Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?