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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jock Ewing Fan" data-source="post: 359012" data-attributes="member: 40536">Good post, good observations!I would add that two things could be true at once.  JR could be trying to ruin Cliff Barnes on a personal level with a business deal, but he could also be stregnething Ewing Oil by weakening a rival, especially when that rival will also attempt to weaken Ewing oil for personal and/or business reasons.Didn't Jock and JR use Ewing oi resources to oppose Cliff's political campaigns?  While it may have been personal, and even unethical for the Ewings to do so, it was also being done to defeat a rival who would be opposed to Ewing Oil on a personal level.These decisions could have several levels to them.  It is fun to speculate about the possibilities</blockquote>