The state's giant landowners had made a travesty of the Jeffersonian ideal of 160 acres, assembling dominions that ballooned to one thousand times or more that size.
Although oil cognoscenti applaud Aubrey for his acquisition prowess, assembling one of the great troves of natural gas assets, second in size only to EXXON (XOM), the fact remains that CHK has had negative cash flow every single year they have been in existence.