Recently, I attended the latest Chief Executives’ Club of Boston meeting as part of a sizable press contingent covering a speech by Chevron Chairman and CEO David O’Reilly. O’Reilly is a Chevron lifer, having joined the company in 1968 after gaining his engineering degree from University College Dublin in his native Ireland. Last year, Chevron (CVX) produced about 923 million barrels of oil and oil-equivalents from its operations in 20 countries and generated a total of $265 billion in sales from its various units. So it’s no surprise that O’Reilly spent much of his time making the argument for...