Thanks. These message boards could be absolutely spectacular tools in getting investors to make the right decisions on whether to hold or not, but most seem to believe they'll hurt PTOI simply by discussing its shortcomings. Any discussion leading to a better decision on whether to buy or sell PTOI would be orders of magnitude more valuable than trying to pump the company for years.

From my experience, PTOI has a lot of contention on the message boards for the simple reason that the company never puts out clear information about the value of the process. That's not a communication problem--honest companies easily make their situation crystal clear. Shady companies tend to obfuscate information and that leads to wide differences in opinions.

PTOI has never stated how well the process works other than years ago when it said it could make crude oil at a cost of under $10/bbl which oil companies supposedly promised to buy at WTI-$3...a claim which was quickly and inexplicably phased out by PTOI. If PTOI had a solid value proposition, they would be shouting that from the rooftops over and over in clear, unambiguous communication and the skeptics wouldn't have a leg to stand on. I can see why a dishonest company would want to hide results showing the process is worthless but there would be little reason for PTOI to hide the processor results if they were worthwhile.

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