<HTML>In a message dated 7/26/2002 10:24:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jbdelong@uclink.berkeley.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">For what reasons, other than narrative symmetry? </BLOCKQUOTE> 69 cent share price, tiny market cap, trading fraud investigations, no cash on hand, no ability to borrow in the market, $10bln debt, almost half their assets ($11bln) in "risk management activities" or goodwill, unless Chevron-Texaco bails them out, they're toast.</HTML>