I competed against Koch Petroleum in my working life. They created a great privately owned corporation by whipping we majors where we were weak. Big corporations, like the one I worked for, Amoco, tended to focus on areas that complemented our strength and generated volume. In Amoco’s case that was retailing gasoline, refining, logistics, and Read the full article…
Try as you might, my government and the media will not sell me fiction. I consider both as marginally intelligent and completely sold out on ideas that defy common sense. Here are my top examples. 1. Tell me fracking is unsafe and bad for the country every day and I will challenge your facts and Read the full article…
Newspapers are going broke. The experts say the Internet is killing the print media business. Only we elders resort to papers for news. Often, as I’m gathering the four papers we have delivered at the cusp of dawn, some neighbor being dragged by a dog on a leash will make some comment about the quantity Read the full article…
