"potential and real naked shorts"
Wouldn't a little revenue and actual earnings take care of this? If the Co has earnings and positive cash flow, there will be demand for the shares, if the MM's have to artifically hold the price down for the shorts to cover, that just makes an opportunity for you and I to buy more.
If the co has the money to operate a 2,000,000 gal fuel plant, they would not need to go to the capital market and the share price would be a non-event to the operations of the co.
Assuming that we have no debt that is convertable, we have had all the dilution we are going to have.