Would you be willing to give TLP half your shares to merge with them and make them public, IE we buy them out so to speak. Unite the MMP and build a business that has 100% MMP money to use to grow and expand. If they think big enough would that not be the better way for TPL to go. The are trying to grow as well and, like us are only getting 1/2 funds. How about we grow together? I've thought about that , and I believe for the long haul (after 2015) it would be best.

However If , Turley can find just the right merger with another company that has a long term vision, that our 1/2 could fund to make it big, then we would still be OK, BUT, like your example us buying them would be just as hard, unless men of great vision get together and collude for the good of all.

The end result of such a merger would be that TPL would be public, and have the whole pie, they could use PTSC's only employees to do the public company sec stuff and business as usual. AOL bought out Time Warner and AOL was gobbled up. (btw I got a whole $1200 on my lawsuit settlement, being a member of the class action suit.LOL)

I could see Phol gone, Leckrone as Chairman, Turley a head of a division and each one of us owning 1/2 the shares we own now but owning the whole pie which would be worth more than twice as much in my opinion.

I for one like that idea.