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Canada’s oil king: He also eats cake

Suncor chief Rick George takes the bus to work, picks up his own dry cleaning

Rick George, who as the head of Suncor and a chief architect of yesterday’s $18.4-billion Petro-Canada takeover will soon be piloting Canada’s biggest oil company, is a modest guy. “Even though he made $7.5 million in 2008, that the man of the hour would take a $2.50 bus ride from his Mount Royal home to the office down-town speaks volumes,” writes the Calgary Herald’s Valerie Berenyi. He even cares about the environment, getting praise from the likes of Pembina head Marlo Raynolds. But does he floss?

Calgary Herald

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