Energy & Industrials News 6

• "When the USA catches a cold"
• $100 oil is only a technical hurdle to higher pricing
• “Spruiking” Russian Gas doesn’t work
• “Yes Virginia, there is a” Driver Shortage, it is Most Acute Among Good Drivers and it is a Reflection Of the Economy and Industry Dynamics.
• 787 Delayedliner?
• 787 delays already causing significant impact
• A Battery Solution to Wind Power Intermittency in the Midwest US
• A Carbon Cap and Trade Program’s Mechanics and Cost on Electricity
• A German Airbus buy-out?
• A measure of pain now vs. economic catastrophe later?
• A new 21st Century BP begins to emerge from 20th Century doldrums
• A Quiet Little Icebreaker for US Offshore Wind
• About Doha Dollars and Emirate Euros
• Addax expands exploration reach in West Africa as Exxon sells
• ADM Could Switch Some Ethanol Capacity to High Fructose Corn Syrup
• ADM results are stellar thanks to wheat trading even in light of poor ethanol margins
• ADM, Bunge and others, will face many challanges in the Brazilian sugar sector.
• Advanced Network Study and generation Optimization a must for siting while costing Transmission Assets required for meeting the 2020 Renewable Energy Goals,
• Aegean Benefits From High Bunker Prices
• Agenda, or Realist?
• AGL (ASX:AGL) sacks CEO, now a potential target
• Air Berlin - New European Hybrid Value Carrier (HVC) King
• Airbus got what it wanted?
• Airline accidents in Asia
• Airlines seeking ways to leverage assets as they grapple with huge debt loads.
• Akzo Covers the Earth
• Alaska has been an LNG supplier since the 60's - What is new?
• Alberta Royalty Debate
• Alberta Royalty Increase: US Impacts
• Alitalia :AZA Flying Dead
• All indicators point toward continued crude oil price increases
• All over the world, natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) is replacing liquid fuels
• Alternative solutions
• American Industrial Outsourcers Come Face to Face with China's Resource Nationalism, Which is Now Manifest in its New Rules Prohibiting Foreign Investment in Non-Renewable Mineral Resources
• An Idea that will need education and participation
• An Open Letter to Mr. Henry Gerkens, President and CEO of Landstar Systems, Inc.
• Analysing Key Figures reported by Industrial Contractor Companies.
• Analysts Continue to Underestimate The Dry Bulk Shipping Market
• Another observation that confirms higher crude oil price trends ahead
• Another Step of Certainty for Solar and Wind Power Developers in Southern California
• Another view on Dubai's news
• Any Light at the End of the Freight Recession for Trucking?
• Any Victory Fighting NAFTA’s Cross Border Trucking Plan with Mexico may Prove a Pyrrhic Victory for Some
• Anything But Oak by Floor Covering Institute LLC
• Apache expands exploration access for oil and gas in Texas. Link with MLP timely.
• Are Ford and Ballard each Floundering Outside of Their Core Competencies to Salvage Something?
• Are Russian steel makers in the US able to operate independently of American owned scrap brokers?
• Asset-Light v. Asset-Less v. Asset-Hybrid Logistics Models - Comments, Questions & Scrutiny
• At This Price per Gallon, The 7% Excess Capacity Will Be Gone by Years End
• Australian Issues Still The Major Driver of Dry Bulk Shipping Rates
• B787 delayed to Q4 2008
• BAA = Bric - A - brAc ?
• BAck to Basics
• Barge Shipping Terms For Grain Will Not Hurt ACL
• Battle for slots at London's Heathrow set for this week
• Bayer Goes Greener
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Longer, Heavier Trucks Could be on Their Way
• Bear Stearns Does Not Understand that the Perilous State of Ford's Global Purchasing and the Company's Total Lack of a Long Term Strategy to Manage the Risk of Raw Material Price Inflation is Most Likely Fatal.
• Big money to be made in MRO...
• Big Oil Profits
• Bio fuels - how good they are in containing green house gases?
• Biodiesel boom driven by perfect storm of converging free market and regulatory forces
• Biofuels create another industry not an alternative industry!
• Board Grants Request for Rail Interchange Disclosure Requirement
• Boeing comes clean on 787 delays but more to come
• Boeing's Bair lays blame in 787 delays. Sets stage for future "SuperSite"
• Bourbon Enjoying Two Exceptionally Strong Markets In Offshore And Dry Bulk
• BP Learns Crisis Management in the U.S. the Hard Way
• BP not yet up to par but 2008 looks much better than 2007
• Brazil's Addition Of Ethanol Subsidies To Their WTO Appeal Raises The Stakes For US Agriculture
• British Airways tantalizes both Boeing and Airbus with its first orders
• By the Numbers: Lost Coal and Railcar Sales as a Result of Cancelled and Delayed Coal Plants
• CAN HARVESTING SUBMERGED FORESTS IN GHANA EVER BE A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS?
• Cancellation of Coal Plants is Not Necessarily a Short Term Boom to Wind Power Projects
• CanRig, Tesco, Maritime Hydraulics and National Oilwell Varco lead this market
• Carbon Future or Self Dependence
• Cellulosic Biofuel Without any Subsidies is the Answer
• Central Asia Natural Gas: Gazprom is Turkmenistan's Best Friend, Whether Anyone Likes It or Not.
• Challenges Facing the Coatings Industry
• Chevron A12 Project Develops Shallow Gas Potential in Dutch North Sea Sector
• Chevron and Marathon are in better condition to refine oil in this market
• Chevron and Total willing to take their chances in Burma
• Chevron O.K. for now. ENI (Italy) et al still in limbo
• Chevron shallow gas excellent project
• Chevron to continue operations at the supergiant Tengiz oil field
• Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP poised to strike as interest rates fall?
• China Cosco Holdings world's largest dry bulk company
• China energy sector, electricity, alternative power generation
• China moves on LNG supply from Australia
• China Succumbs to the Market over LNG
• China's Chemical Stars
• Chinese interested in PNG LNG but probably not Oil Search
• Chinese interested in PNG LNG but probably not Oil Search: corrected
• Chinese National Petroleum Company CNPC shows it's hand in South America
• Chinese outlook for solar and wind power look relatively modest
• Choices, choices, choices…biofuels industry needs overarching system of systems approach.
• Choices, choices, choices…biofuels industry needs overarching system of systems approach.
• Climate Change and Energy Sources
• Cloudy Forecast for Federal Solar Energy Legislation in 2007
• CN’s new Prince Rupert business will be too small to measure for a long while.
• CNPC after lower priced LNG from Papua New Guinea
• Coal and the Global Economy
• Coal Market--Bullish
• Coal Scrubber Retrofits Will Greatly Increase Demand for High-Calcium Limestone
• Coal to Liquid Can the US Government overlook any longer.
• Coal to Liquid Commercial Fischer Tropsch
• Coal Transportation Rail Rates Unlikely to Be Restrained Based on Recent STB Rate Case Decisions
• Coal-to-Liquid Catch 22: Government price guarantees or free market investment?
• Companies Never Lose a Union Election that Never Takes Place.
• Competition between two leading companies heats up
• Compressed natural gas will put a merciful end to expensive hybrids burning goofy fuels
• Congress has to include natural gas in the pending energy bill HR 3221
• ConocoPhillips enjoys fruits of its Russian investment
• Consol Energy’s Shrewd Purchase of River Transportation Assets
• Container fleet growth still outpacing liner shipping demand growth
• Container Shipping Costs Growing Faster Than Revenue
• Container Shipping Results A Mixed Bag
• Container Volume Increases--The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
• Continuous production processes and driving low cost factors in New Economies
• Con-Way Awarding 45 College Scholarships is Best Investment Yet.
• Correlation is not Causation
• Could ultracapacitors make electric autos practical?
• Counter cyclical earning potential for WABTEC
• CP is improving its operating ratio the old fashioned way; increasing business and lowering costs.
• Cross Border transportation, will it be a disaster?
• Cross-Border Trucker Mind-Set
• CTL has to be developed to control crude prices
• CTL premature with Big Coal but GTL possible via SNG from coal + NG with MOCs
• Current Growth Strategies of Majors driven by Access, Enabled by Oil Price, and Inevitably lead to Acquisition
• Danger of Chinese Imports!
• Define, Design, Develope and Manufacture for Total Cost / Value
• Déjà vu?
• Delta, United in merger talks
• Demand for Soybeans and other Oilseeds Increasing due to Biodiesel and China
• Demand is too high to sell to multinationals right now.
• Developments in Indian Port Sector: An Evolution
• Devon, XTO Energy, Chief Oil & Gas and Quicksilver Resources emerge as unconventional gas leaders
• Did Senator Dorgan, do the right thing?
• DM&E was a good buy for CP Rail, although a bit pricy.
• Does the Chinese OEM automotive industry have a hybrid or electric power train shock prepared for the US market?
• Doesn't BHP Billiton Benefit More From its Proposed Pricing Index Than Either CVRD or Rio Tinto?
• Don’t anticipate greater profits soon from Greenbrier’s venture into tank car manufacturing
• Don't overlook the obvious.
• Downturn of railcar cycle confirmed by latest quarterly ARCI report
• Drought's Impact on Paraguay River Painfull For Ultrapetrol
• DSX Prospects Good in the Short Term, Longer Term is Suspect
• EADS is in deep trouble
• EADS suspends profit guidance
• EADS won't get fat on British Airways crumbs
• EADS: losing my mind...
• Early predictions for 2008 are getting uncertain
• Eastern Europe A Safety Valve For Global Wind Turbine Market
• Economics working against soy-based biodiesel
• Emerging Generic Companies
• Energy And Weather Forecasting: An Indisputable Marriage Of Necessity
• Energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies become a significant growth factor for the innovation and the economy in general
• Energy Efficiency is a Source of Electricity
• Energy storage for PVPS : Hydrogen as a cheap alternative ?
• Entergy goes for nuclear power profits
• Environmentalists are just now figuring out that Toyota's sole purpose in making the Prius is to sell more cars and trucks in the North American market
• Esso, Total, Shell, and Gaz de France among the usual suspects for new gas fields
• Ethanol and the US energy policy.
• EU ETS needs time and political will
• Europe’s big gas dilemma … and it isn’t just Gazprom
• European Petrochemical Producers Plan to Compete
• Excel's Time Charter Strategy Drives Underperformance
• Excess Idle Time Out Weighs Driver Retention During Periods Of High Fuel Costs and Excess Capacity.
• Exxon leading LNG on Papua New Guinea
• Exxon Mobil still on track to deliver superior returns to investors
• Exxon Mobil’s entry into this play may be a game-changer
• ExxonMobil (NYS: XOM) PNG LNG project still front runner
• FAA and airlines both at fault in ATC mess
• Failure to address capacity deficit means joining the back of the queue
• FEMA Uses Aristotelian Logic in Borrowing Logistical Architect From UPS
• FFA Market Not For Inexperienced Speculators
• FFA Market Shows Jitters
• FFA market's faith in dry bulk well founded
• Find a way to spend more, rather than complaining about higher prices for commodities.
• Finite Analysis Restrict Creative Solutions
• First analyse about harvesting, ecology, usage
• Fleet changes coming now?
• Focusing on the right segment of the market is important
• Ford makes an incredibly insensitive blunder in communicating with retirees
• Ford's Status as a Sophisticated Global Company is More in Doubt Than Ever
• Forget the FedEx List Price Increases, It's the Accessorials That Add Up
• Fragments of an analyzis of the Russian Energy Development Strategies
• Freight Planners Continue To Look At A Flat 2008 - And Even Beyond
• From $86/bbl to $92/bbl in four days for gasoline grade crude oil; What’s up?
• Fuel oil welcome trend
• Future Explosive Growth for Indian Petrochemicals
• Gazprom concerned but knows how to stay ahead of the game
• Gazprom may have to change its plans once again
• Gazprom not the issue for Europe – its Microsoft !
• Gazprom works closely with Russian government to monopolize domestic energy market
• Ghana's Aquaculture Opportunities Just As Big
• Give Cummins 'Credit' for 2010 engine strategy
• Global Demand in Plastics
• Glycerol-valuable byproduct of biofuel production
• GM Offers Billions in Tribute to the Peoples Republic of China and Not One Cent for the Defense of the American Market
• GM Purchasing Made an Incredibly Bad Short-Sighted Bet on Outsourcing from China
• GM Tackles Strategy in Wake of Souring Commodities
• GMO's riding the biofuel train too.
• Gold Outlook: Neither Frustrating nor Unpredictable
• Good luck fellows but Gazprom got there first
• Good news for beleaguered BP offshore Angola
• Good prospects down under for Apache Corporation (NYS:APA)
• Great analysis; but here is what I think, let me know if you agree.
• Green Chemistry Comes of Age
• Green Energy Within the Utility's Portfolio is the Key
• GRM: ENTERGY Nuclear Fleet Spin-Off
• GRM: Implications of ENTERGY Nuclear Fleet Spin-Off
• Ground transportation: Competitive and more.....
• Growth of manufacturers of Heavy Lift Vessels
• H.R. 3221 is Muddled Legislation That Fails to Address the Key Issue
• Harvesting Underwater Timber is Feasible
• Have you ever driven a semi south of the border?
• Heavy Crude Discounts to narrow?
• Here Comes the Sun
• High stakes for Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil and other international oil companies.
• Honda's Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Powered Car is Just PR to Highlight Competitive Advantage; The Intent of the Exercise is to Let the Other Car Makers Know What State Honda's Development Program has Reached.
• How long can Chesapeake Energy, Williams Cos, Southwestern Energy and EnCana fly high
• How to sweeten the pill.
• I realize I can beat a dead horse, but what am I missing?
• i think there wont be any impact of import of iron ore
• If it is not already too late, then we must take measures now to survive on this planet.
• If there is a deficit in the supply of rhodium how will carmakers build vehicles that are legal to sell in the US?
• If This Isn't the Bottom For Trucking, You Can See it From Here
• If you disagree, try chartering a ship
• ILFC makes its move - at last
• Illinois Basin Coal’s Potential Export Into High-Priced European Market
• Immune to China
• impact on steel industry
• In dry bulk, conservative equals poor management
• In Spite of Gas Potential, Colombia Unlikely to Become Major LNG Player
• In Viet Nam, time comes now to invest in petrochemicals
• Increasing lime demand with the installation of additional scrubbers
• India Opens Imports to Genetically Modified (GMO) Soybean Oil
• India’s steel industry
• Innovation vs. Rationalization: What Keeps Automotive Companies Rolling
• International Trade Regimes for Raw materials for Biofuel to accelerate progress.
• Internationally Looking For Craftsmanship!
• Iran has many sources for uranium
• Iron ore prices will be completely controlled by the producers in 2008, 9,and well beyond because of the sheer volume of Chinese demand.
• Is Air Travel fun or a major headache?
• Is China Finally Giving the U.S. Trucking Industry a Break?
• Is GM keeping the public aware of its hydrogen fueled vehicle research only to justify r&d expenditures or does GM have something up its corporate sleeve?
• Is Mazda just playing catch-up in fear of the onslaught of cheap cars coming soon, even to Japan, from China?
• Is the Teamsters Union's Hysteria Over Mexican Truckers Warranted? U.S. Carriers Don't Think So
• Is There Any Russian Natural Resource Which is Not a Strategic Asset Which Only a Russian Investor Should Operate?
• It is not the "Green Fuel" but the problem is with how one uses it.
• It's difficult to judge which is more 'scary,' the price increases lately of raw materials or the ignorance of raw material price drivers shown by the public statements of purchasing executives like GM's Bo Andersson.
• Its nearly over
• It's no secret that GM is frightened of the cost of lithium technology batteries for hybrids. Gee, that's exactly the emphasis of EnerDel's announcement that its lithium-ion battery is the cheapest yet.
• Japanese Shipping Results Show The Value Of Diversification
• Jones Act Offshore Support Market Doing Well
• Jurong Island LNG Leverage
• Just What Deutsche Post Needs is 55,000 Teamsters. Yeah, Sure.
• Just what's behind Stora Enso's withdrawal from North America?
• Kick Starting a Coal-to-Liquids Industry in The US
• Lack of Legislation a Drag But Not The End for American Solar Market
• Lackluster Freight Demand Keys Start of "Peak" Shipping Season
• Landmark Deal between Singapore and UK catches everyone by surprise
• LCCs and the rise in tourism
• Let’s not forget the environmental impact.
• Lithium Takes a Step Backwards as Toyota Both Hesitates and Covers Its Bets
• LNG projects moving ahead in Australia
• Local Production of Hydrogen and the Future of Automobile
• London City is a buyer
• Longer And Heavier Trucks Make Sense - Here Are Some Why’s And How To’s…
• Long-term Forecast For Kirby, and Liquid Barging, Is Very Good As Well
• Look for Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Suez and Total to fire the first shots
• Looming Power Shortage And Constraints On Coal Create Opportunity For Gas Turbines
• Makes Sense to Hide New Shipbuildings--and a Bigger Issue
• Many More Adverse Weather Changes Are Likely On The Way
• Marine Engine Manufacturers Enjoying An Excellent Market
• Massive Orders on Opening Day of Dubai Airshow
• Memo to Transportation Companies: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
• Merits to Military backing coal to liquid fuel
• Metallurgical Coking Coal Prices Rising: Affected Producers and Potential on Thermal Coal
• Mexican Trucks In The US - History, Hysteria and Reality….
• Mexico Border Crossings Demand Knowledge & Resources: Do You Really Need a 3PL?
• Mexico Just Gave Miners a Major Headache
• Mexico--A lot of things to consider
• Middle East Natural Gas Shortages – maybe not as much LNG for us as we think?
• Middle East to Dominate Polypropylene Trade – Putting it in Perspective
• Mind your Carbon Footprint:Coal To Liquid or Coal Gasification?
• Monopoly leads to complacency
• More bad news for consumers of hydrocarbon products
• More Toll Roads - A Big Trucker Cost - Surviving, Relocating, Running Alternative Routes, Etc.
• My analysis, "What am I missing", was written to hear oppositions point of view.
• Nabucco NG pipeline, a pawn in the global energy chess game
• Nanotech Catalyst Structures
• NAV not a good measure of TRMD's aquisition of OMI
• Need in New Environmentally Frendly Technologies Is Quite Acute and Strong
• Need to consider all bulk shipping market
• Negative Image + Falling Returns = Problems For Biofuels
• New assessment of biofuels' potential really needed / Suter Consulting, Berne, Switzerland
• New Gas Export Pipeline Increases Flexibility for Norweigian Gas
• New Gas Flexibility hampered by poor project executional abilities by the oil companies.
• New IRS Tax Breaks Coming Soon for Biodiesel, Ethanol and Methanol
• New Law is Really New Negotiations
• New US Pasport technology includes RFID... "Who is at risk?"
• Nitrogen cycle
• No good news for the long run from Russia and it's former republics
• no more impact
• Normal Motion , Still Lucrative
• Norsk Hydro, Shell, Statoil, Exxon Mobil and others begin to recover their huge investment.
• Northern Appalachian Coal to Scrubbed Plants and the Greed of the Western Railroads
• Not enough to help VLCC market or hurt dry bulk market
• NOx emissions from diesel engines using vegetable oils
• Nuclear or distributed renewable energy?
• Nuclear race is on again over energy
• Offshore industry poised to follow the typical boom-bust cycle
• Offshore Peru and Ecuador: A Frontier that may Pay-Off
• Oil companies may be in trouble if Democrats win big in 2008
• Older Dry Bulk Ships Facing Increasing Regulatory Pressure
• One in SIX French flights is LCC
• Only in Russia; Producing Primary Aluminum Utilizing Electricity from a Company Owned Nuclear Reactor
• OPEC Infatuation With Stretching The Truth Causes Oil To Climb Further
• Opposing Views are Healthy
• Optimization of Co-product Glycerol Value
• OSG In For A Troubled Few Years In Tanker Shipping
• OSG Is A Winner Either Way In The Jones Act Shuttle Market Battle
• Overcapacity Driving Poor Tanker Rates
• Overcapacity In Container Shipping Very Evident
• Peabody Energy, Consol Energy and Arch Coal to the rescue in Europe
• PetroChina in, the limelight
• PetroChina is a wake-up call for the IOCs and the US
• Phoen... erm, Atlanta from the Ashes!
• Picking at the carcass
• PNG LNG – some way to go yet
• PNG LNG gathering momentum
• Port Emissions Rules Will Not Change The Flow Of Containers Much, But Offers Opportunities
• Ports on the West Coast have strong new competition
• Positive Indicators for US Coal
• Potential DM&E Build-Out to the PRB: Affect on UP, BNSF, Shippers, and PRB Coal Suppliers
• Power Systems need firm generation capacity
• Prioritised Substitution
• Property Tax May Pave The Way For A Unique Solar Power Market
• Proposed trans-shipment hub on Indian West coast: A strategic choice
• Prospects For Eagle Bulk Very Strong
• Putting California and the U.S. in (Solar) Hot Water
• Railroad carload traffic is showing signs of improvement
• Railroad Pricing Power is starting to be tested in Congress
• Rare Earth Availability, Eagle Cliffs, Inc., Rechargeable Battery Business
• Regal Beloit Surely Shows its Goals in Emerging Markets
• Role of Amorphous Metal in High Efficiency Electricity Networks..Adoption can place India and China ahead on compliance to international protocols of climate change.
• Ron Carey Calls UPS Contract "A Complete Sellout"
• Royal Dutch Shell and Total provide high technology to Omani oil fields
• Royal Dutch Shell saw handwriting on wall years ago. LNG is their wave of the future.
• Royalty trusts may benefit from expansion of unconventional gas plays
• Russia pursues focused energy goals
• Sabic Innovative Plastics is Born
• Sabre needs to focus on its Airline Services business
• SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE
• Santos shareholder cap to go
• Saudi Aramco desperately trying to hold production rate
• Schneider's Secrets To Lower Driver Turnover That Many Truckload Carriers Miss
• SCR needs may tilt balance of 2010 US truck market
• Secrecy leads to Transpacific rate issues
• Section 29 Tax Credits and Coal Production
• Security:a global reality that we all have to take seriously
• Senate Transportation Bill Swerving Into The Business Of Toll Roads
• Shell does not learn in Tatarstan
• Shell sitting pretty in Tatarstan with high tech bitumen extraction methods
• Shell, ConocoPhillips and Total (France) stand to gain from LNG production in Africa
• Shining a Spotlight on Shortline Railroad Paper Barriers
• Ship Order Secrecy Shifts Forecasting from Capacity to Performance
• Ship Orders Are Never Secret
• Ship owners have long memories
• Shipyard Delays Will Not Significantly Alter Capesize Ship Deliveries
• Shortage of Panamax Tonnage Means No Limits on Capesize Rates
• Should a reservation for a Tesla really be called a Ponzi?
• Silica Production Expands With Increased Demand
• Singapore moving ahead with LNG
• Slowdowns and consolidations ahead for ethanol, but pain today will create more profits tomorrow.
• Solar Power May Save the Housing Industry From Drowning Like Polar Bears
• Some Degree of Game Theory Will be Required if One is to be Successful in Mexico
• Some Good News for Constructing New Coal Plants Regarding CO2 Emissions
• Some Locales Understand Inland Port Opportunities - And Just Need A Little Investment
• Some Reasons The Soft Freight Market Road Will Have More Chuck Holes Ahead
• Spirit Puts B787 Delays into Perspective
• State of the Plastics Market
• Statoil LNG plant coming on stream with supply for US East Coast
• STB Could Make Some Rail Movements More Competitive By Addressing ‘Paper Barriers’
• Steel Producers And Mines Missed The Boat For The Strong Dry Bulk Market
• Steps Transportation / Trucking Should Take Now in Preparation for $100 per Barrel Oil.
• Stop pending ethanol legislation and dig in for real energy development
• Stupidty compounded by more Stupidty
• Subsidies, environmental and health costs should be included in energy cost calculations.
• Suez, Gaz de France, Total, Shell and BP watching policy changes closely
• Support for the Annual Truck Driving Championships and America’s Road Team Captains has Never Been More Critical.
• Supporting H.R. 3221
• Surface Transportation Board Coal Rate Decisions’ Affect on Coal Market
• Synergy May Compound The Weaknesses of both Steel Dynamics and OmniSource And May Not Make This Acquisition a Win-Win
• Talking from both sides of our face
• Tanker Newbuild Conversions Good For Shipyards, Not Shipowners
• Tanker Rates Will Remain Weak
• Technology and perseverance keep our energy companies on track
• That point has already been reached.
• The "Free Rider " Syndrome
• The Arithmetic of Green - the Politics of Oil
• The Big 2009 Prebuy Is Even More Less Evident - There Are Several Reasons…
• The bonanza in farm income: Are we seeing the emergence of farmoil in world trade
• The City of Detroit is Dead and Nothing GM or the UAW Does Now can Revive It; This Sad Fact Could Derail the 'Pattern Agreement'
• The Dow Transports are Simply an Indicator Among Many as to the Health of the Economy.
• The Early Bird catches the worm
• The Ethanol Boom: Good or Bad for the Railroads?
• The Ethanol Fix
• The evolution of a Risk/Reward measuring stick.
• The fate of New York is tied to the fate of the U.S. dollar.
• The Ghanaian Lake Forest Is A Further Proof Of The Idiocy OF Mankind
• The most important tie-in to the US dollar for the American economy is the remaining time during which many exchange traded metals are priced in dollars.
• The narrow path to chinese blue gold
• The New Dallas Logistics Hub is the Best Deal in Town!
• The Next Bull Market in Trucking Could be for Anti-Idling Devices
• The only game in town is high stakes exploration by the big oil dogs
• The opportunity to make significant changes in US farm policy will likely be squandered, more of the same the most likely outcome.
• The Politics of Fear
• The Question Remains: How High Can the Price of Oil Go and What Will the Impact be on Transportation Should it go Higher?
• THE RISE OF OIL PRICE APPROACHING $100 IS GOING TO HAVE A DRAMATIC IMPACT ON GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION
• The sky may be falling, but slowly
• The Solution to YRC Worldwide's Structural and Financial Woes
• The Sound Of Green
• The Toyota Top Of The Line Lexus Hybrid is a Marketing Mistake For Which There is No Rational Explanation
• The Train Has Already Left the Station
• The Truer Issue Is The Tremendous Cost Of Containerships - And Higher Freight Rates?
• The UAW agreement to a VEBA may be its costliest error ever
• The US Air Traffic is bumping up against capacity constraints.
• The Wind Power Industry Backlogged Up to Three Years?
• The Winner of 2007's Worst Idea of Transportation? Hands-down, it's Short-Sea Shipping.
• There May Be Another Alternative !
• There will be more come
• There's no choice: Lease, do not buy the battery pack for a hybrid or all electric car or truck.
• This article proves my point, to the multiple analysis I've posted
• This deal can't work
• This delay means no more wiggle room
• This is a Harbinger of Mexican Trucking Accident Coverage by U.S. Media
• This is not a surprise, given recent events
• This was no surpise to me
• This Won't Be Pretty: Teamsters and Unionized Freight Carriers Start Contract Talks
• Tidewater Fleet Count Is Always a Problem
• To no one’s surprise, Gazprom continues to play gas power politics in Europe
• Total (France) not to be left behind in the LNG race
• Total (France), 8th of the fabled Seven Sisters, rings the bell
• Total and NorskHydro set the pattern for Arctic natural gas development
• Toyota is not losing any value when even good people leave to go to Chrysler and Ford; Those leaving have served their purpose and are now are superfluous.
• Toyota is Stumbling in the American Market over the Issue of Being 'Green.'
• Transportation / Trucking Companies Must Ask: What if Crude Oil Reaches $120 per Barrel?
• Trash talk prior to price negotiations
• Trees can be only a small part of the fight against climate change.
• Trees or Houses?
• Trends give a brighter picture then the current railroad traffic numbers
• Trinidad & Tobago moving ahead with NG reserve developments
• Trucking Profits, Emission Laws & Idle Legislation
• Turbotec Products:We Will Proceed with Caution
• Turkmenistan plays Gazprom at its own game
• U.S. Central Appalachian Coal’s Potential Participation in Hot European Thermal Coal Market
• UAE oil exporting capabilities will improve with new Fujairah export facility
• Union membership falling? Are they serving their union members, or are they self-serving.
• Update on dimensional weight changes
• UPS Makes its Choice: Pay Now, Avoid Higher Pension Liabilities Later
• UPS's $8.5 Billion Gamble. Will it Pay Off?
• Uranium's Wild Ride - Where it Has Been and Where it is Going
• US industry gets ongoing protection from Chinese and Indian HR coil imports
• Vanco International of Houston (and wealthy partner) rolls the dice for high stakes
• Venezuelan oil economy teetering on the brink of collapse
• Very bullish for iron ore in 2008, not so for 2009
• Volatile Crude As Some Models See Potential Hurricane In The Gulf But Possibility Too That Storm Does Not Develop
• Waiting for Godot: Or Is the Fuel Cell Sequel to the Microwave Real?
• Warm Winter Cold Winter...Which Will It Be?: A Lot Is In The Cards For Oil
• We should not expect any form of safety from terroists
• weak institutional framework
• Weakness Elsewhere in Container Shipping Putting Pressure on Asia-EU Trade Lane
• Werner Continues to Implement an Operations Model Calling for Strategic Growth Through Diversified Service Lines Within a Broad Expanded Market.
• West Coast Truckers Pay, Everybody Else Wins
• Western economies lurching into the disaster zone
• What does a Strong Tiger want with a Weak Bear Stearns?
• What does Blackstone seek from investing China’s Bluestar?
• What Does Schneider National Know That the Rest of the Truckload Sector Doesn't?
• What's Behind Quebec's Decision to Withhold Cutting Rights?
• Which begs the question...
• Who is going to be #1?
• Why Can't OEM Auto Makers Simply Give Us the Numerical Results of Their Reliability, Safety, and Performance Tests on Batteries? Is Everything Really on Track?
• Why did Macquarie by Goodrich?
• Why is ArcelorMittal Taking Such an Enormous Country (Political) Risk in the Face of Russian Resource Nationalism?
• Why Oil Long Term WILL Go Higher
• Why oil prices go up exponentially
• Will Car Makers Go Back Again to the Electric Car Future?
• Will increased demand for diesel oil in the U.S. result in refinery changes?
• Will Stretch and Stretch-Stretch Continue
• Will U.S. Plastics export Continue?
• Will, or should, an American hybrid car be a sucessor to Toyota's Prius?
• With All the Surface Overcapacity, China's Polyester as a Whole Will Still Keep Growth Momentum
• With Regard to Natural Resources the American Free Market Capitalism Business Model is Badly Broken
• World scale hardball at one of the world's largest oilfields.
• Would Anyone Notice, Or, Even, Care, If Ford Stopped Selling Hybrids in America?
• Yet Another Great Move By Navios Maritime
• You have to read between the lines...
• YRC is not a takeover target...for many reasons