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KALNAPECO CEO explains energy company's interest in Englian Bid
"KPO has not been an oil company for more than 200 years," she says
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
May 25, 5712


CEO Donna Witmer discusses KPN's participation in the Englian Bid before shareholders

"I'm not sure where Amudim got its information," said CEO Donna Whitmer, "but KPO has not been an oil company for more than 200 years. The energy supply of Kalistan was placed under KPO following the collapse of KALENCON, and we've maintained it all this time, but Kalistan does not produce petroleum and we haven't for a very long time."

Whitmer made the statements while discussing why KPO would none the less participate in the New Englian bid. "KPO, known to the most of the world as KALNAPECO is a legacy brand, but we are still a public-private partnership that focuses on energy creation and distribution, and naturally the Englian Rossfadda oil formation would be something we would certainly be interested in. But to answer the question specifically, we are interested in it because Her Imperial Majesty's Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, who is the Ministry which holds controlling interest in KPO, has ordered us to be. As a public-private owned corporation with 51% of our corporation owned by the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan, we do what the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan tells us to do when they tell us to do something. It's not very difficult to comprehend and it is not at all some big secret. We exist to serve the interest of the Empire of Ananto and Kalistan first last and always: if our investors happen to make money out of the deal, which they do, that's a fringe benefit."

Whitmer said this does give Kalistan the opportunity, however to speak about what it means to have a strong national sector. "I think the assumption that Amudim makes, which I do not think is all that far off the mark, if you only consider liberal capitalist states, is that the only motivation investors have is to make money for themselves. This might be so in a nation that has no sense of national identity or common purpose, where individualism is pursued to the exclusion of all other goals, or in places where they would sacrifice the entire nation for the benefit of one ultra rich person. But this assumption does not hold in nations where there is a strong sense of communal interest, as we have in Kalistan. Here people invest in things primarily out of a sense of duty. It is hard to be an investor in Kalistan, and you certainly do not get rich by doing it, because Kalistan requires that investments actually do stuff, employ people, create things and pay workers, rather than sit idle and move around to make money from money. But our national spirit in this nation dictates that even individual investments should have some social good to them. We don't invest in evil things just because they make us money as individuals, and we certainly don't invest in things that hurt our neighbors just so we can enrich ourselves: We're not liberal capitalists, after all. That's what they do. Every single day, with ever single cent they invest. We aren't degenerates like that."

Whitmer said the framing of Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Carolina II Ananto was important. "Even if our bid in New Englia fails, and it likely will given the private cartel of the capitalist interest aligned against it, we would like to be part of something much more important than simple, basic, really just selfish profit making in Kalistan. Our motivation is literally to be better than... well, then that. To provide better lives for our people, to provide different opportunities than ones which are dictated by the central planners who run the markets we are all supposed to be punished in. Kalistan is a different country. We hope New Englia will also take the opportunity to take our money, to use it to choose a different path than economic imperialism and capitalist exploitation that accepting some of the other bids will guarantee them. We hope they will see this as an opportunity to look to the future, to take the next step in human evolution and ween themselves off of petrocarbons, rather than contentedly wallowing in the sludge of the past, now discredited model of filthy, carbon based, and most importantly transitory and non-sustainable energy production."

Whitmer said Kalistanis invest in it because it is a visionary offering. "Kalistanis may be conservative in a lot of ways, but we are one of the few nations in the world to have taken the steps to divest in oil and figure out alternatives. If we conservatives can do it, surely others can as well. The only thing missing is the will. But those who will drag our nation down for doing that, and make no mistake about it, judging us for failure to satisfy capitalist assumptions about correct economic incentives is an attempt to drag us back down into the muck that we have escaped from, those people lack the will to even challenge their capitalists, to ever dream of a different, better way. We have adopted one model of that better way-surely there are many. But we are light years ahead of those who only measure their profits in terms of money, and not in terms of lives. KPO stands for the future. That's why we want to support Her Imperial Majesty's bid. That's why other Kalistanis will too, even if we never see a cent of that money back, we will know it every time we breathe in and enjoy cleaner air than we would have if some greasy exploitative economic imperialist power pretending to be a liberal nation paid for the right to pollute it."

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