The reality of this is, the little shop STWA has partnered with to make a few units is a drop in the ocean of what's needed for full scale International sales & distribution & honestly, I can't imagine how any company starting out could pull it off.
It will take a hundred million to get set up & who is going to loan that kind of powder to a startup? I could make a list of what's needed to shock you into reality but there isn't enough space in this box. You are talking land, building, millions and millions of tons of steel. Trucks, cranes that cost millions of dollars, storage buildings, insurance hundreds or thousands of employees. Tooling, machines, engineers, dies made etc,etc,etc.
All the while dodging bullets from every competition including but not limited to every DRA companies, heater company. Companies that make friction reducing coatings, pipe wraps etc,etc,etc. The list goes on and on and if you don't think these trades are going to protect their livelihood as well as Kings, Presidents & Prime Ministers you are fooling yourself. Cecil and our BOD are top notched but there is no way they are qualified to fight the likes of Dick Cheney, Warren Buffett and a list of other heavy weights that can take this company out with a sneeze. STWA is a penny stock for Pete's sake. That's like a cockroach to Halliburton.
As for a hostile takeover. Why do you think we've gone so long without contract? Here is a reality check. The OS was 128M, I haven't checked in a while but bat last check I calculated the treasury at 59M and our float at 47M. The float is actual free trading shares that are not held by investors so buying all of the float would not be a problem for any billion, or TRILLION dollar company. That's like gas money to them.
Then all they need is another 15M shares and Ya know what? They fire Cecil and take over. It's just that simple. There is absolutely no protection in place and the treasury has been drained over the past 14 years. Let me ask, how many people do you think would sell some, if not all of their shares if a big boy stepped up and put out a crazy $10 number? Forget that. $5 offer and shareholders would line up. Yeah there are some die hard investors here, but not 40M shares worth and everyone has their price.
It could be, cash out now at $40 guaranteed, or find put later some congressmen got a law passed that now puts 10 years of red tape on viscosity reducing agents because of suspected dangers to the environment. I hope for everyone's sake, if STWA is presented with a deal like this, they take the easy road and make a deal with their hides still intact.
When it comes down to it, getting this done on the scale we've been fantasizing about is so difficult & filled with snipers & land mines STWA would be foolish to pass it up out of pure greed. Also, lest not forget how much the AOT can cause HAL's pps to rise and I can promise you, HAL will get it done in 1/100th the time & with 100% success rate.
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