Energy & Industrials News 7

• "Is Toyota Really Committed To Being Green, OR Are They Just Green Scamming?" asks Rob Perks of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
• 2008 Looks To Be A Difficult Year For Container Shipping
• 2008 Off To a Good Start For Subsea Contractor -Acergy
• A Combination of Natural Resource Conservation And Resource Nationalism in Other Countries is Bringing Activist Environmentalism in the US Into ill Repute Rapidly
• A Delta/Northwest fleet challenge
• A New Transportation Paradigm Will Lead Us to Increased, Improved Globalization Policy; Populism and Terrorism be Damned.
• A sensible analysis. But is there any resolve at the federal level?
• A Sustainable Future Based On Unconventional Fossil Fuel
• A Unique Perspective on the Base Metals Market
• A350 and 77W
• Add Together Wal-Mart, A Higher Limit on its Store Credit Card, and a Contract Assembly Plant, and You Would have a (Cheap) Car Sales Giant
• Adjustments In Trucking Businesses And Operations Have Already Started In Earnest
• Aggressive OMV and Occidental seek increased Libyan production
• Agricultural fertilizer will remain in a demand-driven up-swing for the short-term
• Airbus A350 orders cancelled
• Airbus China Year+ Behind Schedule
• Airbus Vs Boeing - Still in the Cross Hairs
• Airline Industry Overview
• Airline Mergers, Necessary Evil
• Airports should be added to ETS - Emission Trading Schemes
• Alberta Oil Sands: How to Get the Energy and Preserve the Environment
• Algerian Minister's Words Provide 80% Confidence In OPEC Predictions
• Alitalia: Sono allergico alla logica!
• Alternative Fuels Come into Play
• Although the American Dream is Still Alive Today, it Looks Differently in Trucking
• An astute and accurate analysis by Mr. Warren
• Another sad episode in Venezuela’s long, tragic, political history
• Another Step of Consumerism to Grow Solar Power Market
• Another wave of railroad mergers is not going happen, anytime!
• Apache Corporation and Devon Energy lead industry in cost control
• Are GM And Toyota, and All Of The Others, Apparently, Lying To The Public About The Quality And Capabilities Of Their Current Model Hybrids?
• Are The OEM Automobile Companies Just Leaving Michigan Or Abandoning The US?
• As of today, the economics of this supergiant offshore remains uncertain
• ATC Union Tactics or Air Travel Wake-Up Call?
• Attention Large US Trucking Company: A Minority Partnership with Abu Dhabi Anyone?
• Baltic Indices and the direction of freight markets
• Baosteel Could Absorb All Of Rio Tinto's Iron Ore Production Itself Or In Concert With Other Chinese Steel Producers. Might This Not Give Baosteel Effective Control Over Global Iron Ore Pricing Fundamentals?
• Better the pan we know than the fire we don't...
• Beware of hedge funds who think they are railroad experts
• BG Group headed for huge LNG growth over the next decade
• Bio Hype , Mass Balance Equation
• Biofortified Crops, A Future Challenge
• Biofuels Will Colapse - It Is Just a Matter of When, and From Where
• Biotechnology in Crops
• Boeing Expects Limited Russian Returns
• Both AF-KL and Air One look as second-best partners for Alitalia, LH would have been the best
• BP gets lucky in finding natural gas near its LNG plant.
• BP under Tony Hayward set to return to superior performance
• BRAZIL IS HUNGRY FOR ENERGY RELATED PROJECTS!
• British Airways Crash Landing – A Case Study in Making
• British Airways -Top the list Last year- Lost more luggage than all other World Airlines
• Broadband-Regulator around the World should understand
• Bt Cotton, Good for Cotton Growing Countries!
• Building Code Requirements Will Buttress Global Solar Market
• Bullish Signs for U.S. Thermal Coal—Exports, Imports, and Production
• Business Remains the Great Equalizer
• But What Will Happen to US Wind Power Beyond 2009?
• California Diesel Emission Rules - Mandate Mess In The Making, But A Planners Paradise!
• California Green Movement May Cost Diesel Engine Manufacturers Who Complied
• Calpine's exit from BK doesn't mean that they are out of the woods
• Can BP and Shell both be wrong in their cost cutting (or what is Exxon thinking/doing?)
• Can China alone keep the pulp market tight? What about India?
• Can Diesel Trump Ethanol as America's Future Fuel?
• Caspian Gas - we need to get much smarter to outsmart the Russians
• Changes in distribution
• Chemical AND Molecular Genetic Strategies To Block Ethylene Perception For Increase Flower Life
• Chesapeake Energy, Pioneer Resources, others weigh drilling decisions
• Chesapeake Energy, Pioneer Resources, others weigh drilling decisions
• Chevron and CNPC continue inexorable push to natural gas
• Chevron has a long history of working in China. Others will follow
• Chevron to capitalize on strong natural gas demand in Asia
• Chevron, Total and Woodside press ahead with LNG projects
• China Cannot Do Anything Right Now About The Suffocating Fumes From Its Freight Trucks Without Sending The Global Freight Trucking Industry And The Global Platinum Metals Industry Into Chaos
• China is Protecting Its OEM Automotive Industry's Ability to Compete in the Hybrid Car Market Through Protective Tariffs; Why Doesn't Toyota Complain to the WTO?
• China's Chery Automobile Company "Using The Latest Imported Technology" Wanders Towards (Among Other Places) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, To Be Born
• China's Energy Infrastructure Crisis
• Chinese subsidization of Commodity Materials
• Chryser's Conflict With Minority Supplier, Plastech Engineering, Exposes A Formerly Secret Legacy Cost, Which May Be The Highest One Of All.
• Chrysler and Plastech: make up and break up
• Chrysler Has A Much Better Idea. It Moves Design, Engineering, and Production Out Of Michigan And The USA To Reduce Its Dependence On The Costs Of Such Operations In The Domestic American Market
• Chrysler Would'a, Could'a, Should'a Been Like Toyota. Now It's Too Late
• Clean Diesel cars now available - but high performance comes at a cost
• Climate change is real..........
• CN + EJ&E: Not the slam dunk that CN had hoped for
• Coal Consumption at Electric Power Sector Unlikely to Decline if U.S. Enters Recession
• Coal Consumption in Southeast Could Gain if Drought Causes Reduction in Nuclear Electricity Generation
• Coal Gasification Projects do not need Government Competition
• Coal gasification to rescue flight of the chemicals
• Coal Prices – Also Consider the Sulfur Premium in the Coal Price
• Comments on Van Eck’s Market Vectors Coal ETF That Tracks Stowe Coal Index
• Complete international cooperation on energy could lower oil and gas prices
• Concentrated Photovoltaics - In Canada?
• Conflict of Objectives between the Utilization of Biomass as a Source of Energy and other Forms of Utilization
• Congestion pricing arrives
• ConocoPhillips / Tyson Renewable Diesel Is Flowing Out To Retail - Biodiesel Bridge Is To Nowhere Is Shakier
• Construction Boon in Western Canada Lifts Paint Industry
• Container Shipping Theme For 2008 Is Floating Fuel Surcharges
• Converting Everywhere Possible From Uranium to Thorium For Generation of Electricity in Nuclear Power Plants Would Ultimately Save Billions And Increase Our Safety A Thousand-Fold, So What's Holding It Up?
• Corn ,Soybeans and Wheat Resume Climb of Argentine and Brazilian Weather - How High Can They Go?
• Corn, Soybean and Wheat Prices Are Ready to Set Record Prices in 2008- Impact on Food Prices
• Crewing Issue A Growing Problem In Shipping
• Crop Energies turning more to sugar for ethanol, http://www.bettersugarcane.org
• Crossborder Trucking is as Dead as the Dennis Kucinich Presidential Bid
• Crude and NG to be harvested from mother earth
• Crude oil facts and myths collide at $100/bbl
• CSX Wins Big in High Court Tax Case
• Currency Concerns Impacting Chinese Shipbuilders
• Customers Are Lining Up To Buy Toyota Priuses Equipped With Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries; So What's The Real Reason For The Hype About Replacing Them With The "Next Generation" Lithium Technology Batteries?
• Demand for emissions control catalysts will keep Platinum near record highs
• Destination Nowhere? The Hydrogen Highway in California.
• Detroit Redux: Big 3 to re-integrate supply chain?
• Diversity of Supply Route … or … tightening the stranglehold
• Do Californians Unintentionally Seek One Size Low Emission Car For The Masses and Larger Faster Ones For The Elites? In Any Case The California Dream Is Simply Not Currently Possible
• Does Allis-Chalmers buy-out of Bronco Drilling indicate the starting flag is "up" for the next wave of energy service consolidation?
• Does China's white paper on energy offer any new information of interest?
• Dollar has to get back in tandem with Gold and Euro
• Dow integrates upstream via Kuwait deal
• Dow needs to conserve cash - and prepare for major downturn
• Dow potential acquisition
• Dow To Surprise, Gaining Ground In Hybrid Acquisitions And Innovative Mergers
• Dramatic Price Increases Coming to Ford and GM Dealerships Near You: Michigan Headed For Depression In One State
• Drought Taking Toll on Australian Crops
• Dry Bulk Recovering Despite Chinese New Year
• Dupont Getting Greener
• DuPont's right approach in developing Bio fuels
• Eclipse writing production checks...
• Emerging (renewable) energy technologies need stable framework conditions on the market place
• Energy and Farm Bills Renew Renewable Fuel Enthusiasm and Stocks
• Energy bill signed without any tough decisions
• Energy mix has to be the focus of all major oil companies
• Eni, ExxonMobil, StatoilHydro and BP put 100,000 Boe/day on line
• Environmental Moves by Southern California Ports Destined to Raise Trucking, Maritime Costs Steeply
• EOG Resources Inc and other small oil operators profit from Bakken
• Ernst & Young predicts intense oil reserves competition
• Ethanol producers face continued challanges on both costs and revenues.
• Ethanol Production Capacity: Too Little, Too Much or Way Too Much
• Ethanol's Future Gains (MPG) Boost
• Expect Inflation to Become the Next Serious Issue for Transportation / Trucking Companies.
• Extraordinary technical opportunities for Western pollution companies.
• Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell happily coping with crude oil concerns
• Exxon Mobil hangs tough, as usual.
• Exxon Mobil hopes to regain prominence as a Libyan oil and gas producer
• Exxon Mobil wins again and may return to Venezuela
• Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell to prosper again in 2008
• Exxon Mobil, Gazprom, Chevron, Total and others mull natural gas limits
• Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP will survive but smaller companies will not
• ExxonMobil Staying The Course With Single Hulled Tankers
• Failure of Cross – Border Trucking In Mexico is a Part of the Bigger Issue of Immigration.
• Farm bill process normal, 2007 farm bill will be passed in 2008
• Farm bill process normal; Congress will adopt a new farm bill next year
• FedEx IRS Independent Contractor Versus Employee Classification - Probable Outcome...
• Food Price Rise
• Food Prices Rising- Corn, Soybean and Wheat Prices Are Ready to Set Record Prices in 2008-
• Ford Should Have Bought Tata Instead of Jaguar and Land Rover
• Freightcar America seems to be grooming itself for a sale
• French Market May Be Stabilizer for European Photovoltaic and Related Technologies
• Fuel Cells for Utilities & Power Generation
• Further evidence that Weyerhaeuser is preparing to change structure.
• FutureGen Restructuring Can Help site future goal plants
• Gasification will improve refinery operations
• Gazprom acts fast but not out of the woods yet
• Gazprom acts fast but not out of the woods yet
• Gazprom appears to take the lead in Niger delta gas gathering
• Gazprom assured to be a winner in European/Asian natural gas markets
• Gazprom deal in Bulgaria solidifies Russian natural gas strategic position
• Gazprom in trouble with Russia
• Gazprom keeps moribund Nabucco in Limbo
• Gazprom puts a shadow over Africa
• Gazprom strategies and energy supply to Europe
• Gazprom strengthens grip on European natural gas market
• Gazprom to move downstreams
• Gazprom will meet solid resistance in Nigeria
• Gazprom, Suez, Total can only profit in this environment
• GdF-Suez, Total, Wintershall and Gazprom to profit as gas demand soars.
• General Motors Continues to Waste Money And Even More Precious Resources on Dead Ends or Questionable, Far-Out, If Ever, Payoffs Instead of Addressing Immediate Problems
• General Motors Is Making Smart Moves, Which Could Well Result In Dominance In The Twenty-First Century's Global OEM Automotive Market
• General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Delphi, Plastech Engineering And The Rest Of The Lemmings Are All On Track As They Head For The Cliff's Edge
• Genetically Modified Crops a Must
• Genetically Modified Crops are More Than Worth Growing
• Global Chemical Demand
• Global Climate Change: Adverse Effects In The United States Already
• Global LNG pricing bites Turkey
• GM and Toyota, Fisker and BYD, Bring You The Handmade Battery. Wouldn't It Be Easier Just To Say That The Technology Isn't Ready?
• GM Throws Support For Cellulosic Ethanol With Start-Up Coskata Inc.
• Goldman Sachs Elevates Trucking Sector to “Attractive”, But Investors Need to Remain “Cautious”
• Good News For Tanker Companies
• Good Times Ahead For Subsea Contractors
• Good times aren't over yet for Deere
• Governments Provide the Real Competition to ExxonMobil, Total, Shell, BP and Others
• Greenbrier needs a better second half to match their regular earnings in 2007
• Handysize Market Potential Very Strong
• Has Peak Platinum Production Been Reached? If so, How Will This Affect The American OEM Automotive Industry?
• Has the Airline industry peaked?
• Has The Chevrolet Volt Program Been Short Circuited By Economic And Engineering Reality?
• Has The OEM American Automotive Industry's Backing of Minority Business Enterprise Development Finally Come To An End
• Has the Titanic of GM Just Hit The Iceberg of Inflation?
• Healtcare Concerns
• Heathrow to US Airlines: Please park your planes in the remote parking lots.
• HELP -what do these forestry terms really mean?
• Hess gains
• Hexion-Huntsman's Exemplary Merger Agreement
• Hey, FedEx, the IRS Wants to Help You!
• High crude oil prices will push demand for natural gas
• Higher Farmland Prices Help Balance Sheets, Loans and Estates, but Hurts Profits
• HighMount, Chesapeake and Energen up against long odds in Northern Alabama
• Hoku Hiccup Indicative of Broader Polysilicon Supply Issues?
• Homebuilding Decline Affects More Than Home Builder
• Honda Hybrids Losing Their Tax Advantages
• Horizon Dodges A Bullet
• Horizon Should Have A Decent Year
• Housing Down, Vendors Not Out
• How Big is Trucking? The Census Bureau Tries to Compute
• How big will diesels get in US car market?
• How can Gazprom go wrong?
• How long will the good financing times last for small producers?
• How long would the tight coal supply last in China?
• How many airports does the UAE need?
• Hunt beats Shell in Peru
• Hydrates, Old idea revisited
• I Want To Change My Mind and Lower my Estimate for the 2008 North American Truck Production Numbers.
• Icahn is known for his patience and he will need it with Greenbrier (GBX)
• If becoming a REIT is such an attractive alternative for integrated forest products companies, why not implement imediately?
• If Paper Were Dollars, This Country's Infrastructure Needs Would be Solved Immediately
• If they use disruptive technologies, yes
• Impact Of Recent Legislation on Horizon Lines
• In matters of trade, the Chinese hold the high cards
• In the long run, there are no insurmountable "technical barriers" to oil and gas exploration and production
• In The Race For Global Market Share Neither GM Nor Renault-Nissan Wants To Take The Time To Build Distribution, Sales (Dealer), Or Service Networks; Instead They Are Buying or Buying Into Existing Networks In Emerging Countries
• Increasing work load vs unemployment rate
• India"s Ambitious Plans to Expand Petrochemicals
• India: Great Market Unless You Want To Make Money
• India's airlines
• Inflation May Increase the Pain of Rate Cuts for Transportation / Trucking Companies
• Input Shows Trucking Logbook Rules Hurts Dedicated Segment Profits Most
• Investors betting against Exxon Mobil and Chevron will come out losers
• IP's Fluff Pulp: expanding just to keep pace
• Iran attempts to reduce nationwide decline rate by development of small reservoirs
• Is China's 14.4% power generation increase in 2007 a sustainable trend?
• Is Dow Chemical's Deal With Kuwait's State Oil Company Better Than The One GE Plastics Made With Saudi Arabia's SABIC?
• Is it possible today to build a high performance lithium battery powered car for a price that can be attractive to a large segment of the market for such vehicles? Probably not.
• Is Japan, Incorporated, About to Take a Giant Step Into the Hydrogen Powered Future While the Rest of the World Stays Behind?
• Is Nano- going to be just the next buzzword or buzz prefix for Wall Street type promoters?
• Is Newsprint Consolidation The Key To Profits?
• Is Noland's market share what it once was??
• Is This the Start of the Trucking Financial Recovery?
• It looks like SPX Corporation made the right choice by purchasing APV
• It Will be Important for Carriers to Sharpen their Pencil When Negotiating Dedicated Contracts in 2008
• It's Not The Cost Of Disposal, Stupid, It's The Recovery Of Raw Materials By Recycling For Re-use!
• It's Now Official: YRC Admits it Overpaid for USF Regional Carriers
• Japan To Get Back To Being Leading PV Market
• jetBlue - ripe for something
• Jim Hoffa: Even Samuel Gompers Would be Ashamed of You Over FedEx!
• Kurdish Oil Contracts in Northern Iraq
• La Nina Still a Threat to Crops in Argentina, Brazil and the US
• La Nina Threatens to Hurt Global 2008 Wheat, Corn and Soybean Crops
• Large Companies Pick Up Jatropha Banner:
• Like Many Populist Ideas, the Economic Stimulus Package will be Limited in Scope, but will Impact the Trucking Sector
• Like The Dow Transports, the Gross Domestic Product is Simply One Indicator of Many When Evaluating Freight Rates or Making a Sector Analysis
• Limits to Growth in Energy Consumption..improve energy productivity or invite negative fedback
• Linde Group increases Global Helium Supply from LNG Projects
• Lithium Batteries Will Be Totally Unnecessary As The Modern Electric Car And Fuel Distribution System, First Born And Died in California, Is Now Reborn In Israel
• Lithium Battery Technolgy for OEM Automotive in 2008
• LNG from Alaska to the West Coast or to the Pacific Rim
• LNG has to cover most of the increased NG demand by power companies
• Location is right but timing may be wrong
• Low cost airlines may be becoming too dependent on ancillary revenues?
• Lufthansa becomes jetBlue's White Knight
• Lufthansa leads European airline thrust towards world domination?
• Lukoil (20% ConocoPhillips) and Gazprom work together in Uzbekistan
• M&A Forecast for Transportation: Partly Sunny with a Chance of a Big Deal
• M/A Activity in the Coatings Industry Highlights 2007
• Maersk--among the rubble, a nugget with Maersk Logistics
• Major Jatropha to Biodiesel Project in the Philippines
• Malaysian company Petronas proposes takeover of UK Gas Storage Company
• Man Made Climate Change - Again
• Matson Doing Well In A Weak Market
• Merchant generators set to gain in water ravaged South
• Mexican Trucks May Soon be Barred from U.S. as Court Challenges Mount
• Mining Iron Ore Is Cheaper; Mining Tungsten is Cheaper; Is Now The Time For Foreign Investors in Domestic American Natural Resources to Fall In Love?
• Momentive Gains Momentum
• Monsanto continues to do the right things to extend their lead in the race for market share.
• Monsanto is Bringing Biotechnology Magic to a Corn and Soybean Farmer Near You
• More Gas for Russian Domestic Use in Future
• More pressure on MRAPs for Iraq
• Moving Into International Markets
• National Iranian Oil Company having difficulty maintaining crude oil rate
• Natural gas storage to become a growth industry in Europe
• Navistar’s New International LoneStar Model Leaked - What does it Mean For Them And Others???
• Needed Coal
• New approach to develop drugs
• New biofuel feedstocks will be driven by effeciency and economics.
• New ownership will mean more advanced equipment
• Newfield Exploration making good money in the Arkoma basin
• Nitrogen Fertilizer Price Rise
• No clear end in sight for this pernicious international financial phenomenon
• No Easy Solutions to YRC Worldwide's Woes
• No Sense of Urgency by the United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Nobody cares about the bus driver until it's time to take a ride...
• Nonsense About An Inefficient And Uneconomical Use For Gold
• North Dakota likes Lurgi gasifiers
• Northeast Offshore LNG Increases Supply, Deliverability and Volatility
• Not All Powder River Basin Coals Have Participated in Run-Up in Coal Prices
• Now One Understands Why They Call it the Green Movement
• NS Can't Have Its Cake and Eat It, Too
• Number of PRB Tons in 2008 in 2009 to Backfill Eastern Coal Exports and for New Coal Plants
• Ocean carriers want floating fuel--and more
• Oil and Solar Doesn't Mix?
• Oil is running on empty but not natural gas
• Oil sands is a big game for the big players
• Oil-eating bacteria could improve the exploitation of tar sands and heavy-oil reservoirs
• Oleg Derpaska, The Main Shareholder of Rusal, The World's Largest Aluminum Company, Is About To Take Control of Norilsk, The World's Largest Palladium (And One Of The World's Largest Nickel) Producer; He Will Soon Be The World's Richest Man And The Single Most Important Individual In The World Commodity Metals Market
• Olympic Odour
• One May Expect a Noticeable Change in the HVAC Segment of Water Heaters
• One small step for the LCCs, one giant leap for Manchester
• Only the gods can save Olympic
• OPEC Will Likely Increase Trading In Other Currencies Because The Dollar's Depreciation Does One Thing OPEC Does Not Want To Do: It Increases Oil Demand
• Options abound for tomorrow's Green car market
• Palladium Flat Lined Years Ago, So Why Raise Future's Margins Now?
• Past expansions in acreage in Brazil are just the tip of the iceberg
• Peak oil believers, listen up! Sky not falling, at least yet.
• Perceptions and psychology drive the markets
• Petrobras finds a deep, problem-laden crude oil bonanza
• Petrobras has a big find; a big problem and nothing much will change for years
• Petro-chemicals industry expansion planned in India
• Petroplus may value Valero's East Coast Refineries
• PIA- Privatization is the best way to pull PIA out of its dilemma
• Pilot program, should it be scrapped
• Plastech files bankruptcy: 'Nuclear Option' shuts down Chrysler
• Praying for Rain Does Not Constitute Adaptation
• President Putin pushes Gazprom grand design for European Union supply
• President Vladimir Putin got there first and he knows what the reserves are
• Puerto Rico Application Of Tonnage Tax Will Be Repealed
• Pulp & Paper Industry in North America - consolidation and contraction
• Putin wins pipeline deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
• PV Build up of Demand in Canada
• Railcar builders are in two camps, those in for a rough year, and those holding their own.
• Railroad Pricing power being fueled by boom in commodity prices
• Railroad tank car production to decline in 2008 at Union Tank
• Railroad tonnage and carload gains should put railroads on the road to recovery in 2008
• Railroad’s pricing power continues to offset traffic loses
• Railroads will fare better than most companies, and very much better than trucks in 2008.
• Rapid Growth of Biofuels Production Creates New Markets
• Rate cuts? In my opinion, No
• Raw Material Pricing Is No Longer The Key Problem For OEM American Automotive; Now the Problem Is Becoming Raw Material Availability
• REC Delay May Be Another Sign of PV Feedstock Supply Problem
• Regulated Utilities May Not Necessarily Receive Cost Recovery for Increased Coal Prices
• Required Levels Of Minority Content; China Content; And, Now, Carbon Content. The Hypocrisy Of Big Business Social Consciousness
• Rheem is in hot water
• Risk: Reward
• Rockwell Automation - The Battle for Process Control
• Rockwell will merge
• Royal Dutch Shell Chairman expects business as usual this year
• Royal Dutch Shell continues aggressive growth in Russia
• Royal Dutch Shell tries to find oil in the western Arctic off Point Barrow
• Rules for Picking Biofules
• Russia and Gazprom – business as usual!
• Russian gas is Russian gas …….. and they will decide what to do with it, not Exxon!
• Ryanair - an EU bellweather?
• Sabic to become one of the top global petrochemical companies
• safety at sea cannot be stressed enough at all times
• Saudi Arabia will put their new AFK redevelopment project on production soon
• Sea Containers Still Facing An Uncertain Future
• Search goes Legit. Kayak buys Sidestep for $180 Million
• Semi-Globalization for Transportation, May be Considered the “Wisdom of Solomon” this Same Time Next Year
• Shell Acquires Arctic Gas, but will be challenged to convert it to bookale reserves
• Shell, Encana, Delta and others leasing large parts of Columbia River basin
• Shipbuilding Orders Likely To Start Moderating In 2008
• Shipping Industry Dynamics
• Shipping is suffering declining margins from 'cost-push' inflation
• Short staffing, problem of the airline industry?
• Should OPEC Dump the U.S. Dollar?
• Single Hulled Tankers Will Sail Through 2010
• Slowing traffic?
• Snowpack Could be Bright for Pacific Northwest Investor Owned Utilities’ First and Second Quarter Earnings
• Solar power is not only photovoltaics! Fossil-supplemented solar thermal power plants may be more suitable for Big Oil.
• Someone Needs to Call the BNSF Railroad and See if the Timing is Right to Buy Covenant Transport.
• Something just happened
• Sonatrach rebuffs Gazprom
• SPX Acquires APV: This Acquisition Could be Mutually Beneficial
• SriLankan joins the walking dead airline club
• Sticker Shock Effect
• Stimulating New Hydro in the U.S
• Submarine cable - Wake-up call -For Telecom industry worldwide
• Supreme Court Over-The-Road Trucker Overtime Case Decision Has Mostly Bad Implications
• Taking a Second-Generation Look at Biofuels
• Tanker Charterers Sharing The Risk
• Tanker Rate Recovery In 2010 Looks Stronger
• Tanker Rates Look To Be Strong A Little Longer
• Team Tactics
• Technical Challenges of Harvesting Deep Underwater Timber
• The “other natural resource” shortage in the energy industry.
• The BDI Is No Longer A Good Indicator Of World Economic Conditions
• The Chemical Industry in South America is Changing
• The China Commodity Control Strategy Now Exposes The China Price Strategy Of Western Companies For What It Was: A Short Sighted And Stupid Giveaway of Competitive Technological Advantage In the Long Term By Both American Industry And American Government
• The constantly changing definitions and value of HBU lands in forestry
• The Cost Of Chinese Made Auto Parts Will Go Up Dramatically As The Dollar Declines; General Motors Needs to Do Nothing At All, But Watch, To See The Gross Value Of Its Purchase Spend In China Increase.
• The Cost of Minor Metals: The Real Driver Of Green Car Selling Prices and KIller Of Profits
• The Creation Of An Industry For The Conversion Of Solar Energy To Electricity Will Not Be Possible If It Depends on Tellurium
• The Critical Issue For Ford Is Not A Next Generation Hybrid Battery; It Is Whether Or Not There Will Be a Next Generation Ford Motor Company.
• The Decision Between Buying New Trucks V. Running Longer Is Leaning Right - ArvinMeritor’s Move Offers Some Why’s….
• The Emotional Aspect Of Freight Rates
• The Energy Bill, Corn Ethanol And Some Real Farmer-Investor Co-op Input Regarding Ethanol Plants
• The Fine Chemical Industry Rapidly Grows in China
• THE FMCSA Hours Of Service Rules rules, are they too stringent?
• The fourth quarter orders for new railcars were inflated to make a bad situation look good.
• The Glycerol Challenge: http://theglycerolchallenge.org
• The Government Can Too Write a Legal Rule on Truck Driver Hours of Service
• The impact of China's tight thermal coal supply
• The IOC Response to the Government/NOC Competitive Threat
• The issue of carbon management goes beyond carbon sequestration and control
• The market shift is in full swing but it is not what people think
• The Need for a Comprehensive Transportation Policy is Critical in 2008!
• The new found demand for meat is the real driver behind agriculture's explosive growth.
• The New Paradigm in the Energy Industry - National Oil Companies who compete globally
• The next wave of nukes
• The Nickel Metal Hydride Battery Used Today In All Mass Produced Hybrids Is Higher Technology Than The Lithium Cobalt Ion Battery
• The Olympic mess
• The Only Value Created by This Small Test Site is Likely To Be For The Green Credential It Gives Its Ultimate Customers, GM, BMW, Daimler and Chrysler.
• The Operational Paradigm has changed for Corporate Transportation Requiring a Different Stock Valuation.
• The Potential Consequences and Economics of Coal Dust Mitigation in the Powder River Basin to Railroads, Utilities, and Coal Producers
• The Price of Gold, Since Its Previous All Time High In 1980, in Constant 1980 Dollars Has Declined Dramatically; Gold Is Today Neither A Hedge Against Inflation Nor A Level Store Of Value For The US Dollar.
• The rise and fall (and rise again?) of the Reverse Morris Trust (RMT)
• The Rise of Biopharmaceuticals
• The Rockwell Automation Rumors Persist
• The Transport Franchise Model - Another Model To Pick Pluses From
• The Window For Tanker Conversions Is Essentially Closed
• The WSJ Suggests that BP Cut More Jobs - But do Job Cuts Automatically Equate to Cost Reduction in an Energy Production Company?
• The WSJ's Two Contrasting Views On The Sustainability Of $100 Oil
• The Yamana, Meridian and Northern Orion Resources Transaction - a strategic view
• This is the Current Truckload Operating Environment in a Nutshell
• Threats and opportunities for the European refining industry.
• Tonnage Tax Legislation Will Significantly Hurt Horizon's PR Trade Profitability
• Total and Apache seek to develop new production in Chile south of 54º
• Transport Sector Will Be Flat At Best In 2008 - With Some Opportunities Therein
• Treatment of SO2 Allowance Sales Proceeds by Regulated Utilities
• Tring to Divine Dow Chemicals Next Moves
• Trucker’s Interim Final Rule For Driving Hours Re-Issued - Good News For Trucking
• Trucking Companies And Railroads Joint Intermodal Strategies
• Trucking Companies Subtly Telling Us About Freight Expectations - Through Trailer Manufacturers
• Trucking Guarantees are No Guarantees of Profitability
• Trucking Mergers, Acquisitions & Failures Will Continue Thru ‘08 - Some Things To Watch…
• Trucking Rates will Remain Low Until at Least August of 2008.
• Trucking Relies on Consumer Spending
• Turn Around in August 2008? No.
• Two powerful forces drive crude oil prices upward
• U.S. Can Become #1 in Global Wind Power Soon
• U.S. Central Appalachian Coal’s Potential Price at the Mine Based on Its Export Potential to Europe
• U.S. Ethanol policy is simply a regressive tax...
• U.S. Renewble Energy Policy - The Hard Way Instead of the Easy Way
• Uncoated FreeSheet: Can Domtar and IP Control The Market?
• Union Tank Car will probably remain independent
• United - is it weather or people trouble?
• Unmanned aircraft use in Iraq doubles
• UPS Follows FedEx's Rate Increase, to the Dime
• UPS Secures Labor Peace, at Quite a Price
• US airline sare heading for big trouble
• US defense budget and US defense firms
• US downturn may be looming - are businesses properly prepared?
• US Farm Programs Need To Focus On Stabilizing, and Stop Subsidizing
• US Majors in for a rough ride as traffic slows
• US-Mexican Truck Program Will Continue Despite Political Rhetoric
• UTC solves solar power
• VLCC Fleet Will Expand In 2008
• VLCC Tanker High Rates Will Not Persist
• Wabtec scores second win in sales of its high tech brake technology
• Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Sends Another Signal Of A Good Transport Segment To Be In
• Water should be the deciding factor for energy legislation but not politics
• Western U.S. Coal Potential Export
• What are the implications of the defeat of key renewable energy provisions of the new Energy Bill?
• What happened to the unions?
• What Happens To ADM Regarding Ethanol After The Honeymoon?
• What if I really want to do is take the tax advanteges of a REIT, and the operating flexability of C-Corp ownership?
• WHAT IS CHANGING IN THE BRAZILIAN ENERGY MARKETS?
• What Is Happening In Dry Bulk Shipping
• What is the predominant software used for mapping gas, oil, minning, and forestry operations?
• What Rough Problem Of The Toyota Prius Is Slouching Toward Tokyo Waiting To be Born?
• What the Saudi's say in public is not always what they do in practice
• What Will Fuel the Voluntary Carbon Market
• What YRC is Paying for Five Years of Labor Peace with the Teamsters Union
• What's Really Behind the Record $10 million AMI Fine?
• Wheat Third Lowest
• Where are we in the supercycle?
• Who's a Better Bet: The National Oil Companies, or BP/Exxon, or...the Energy Service Companies
• Why doesn't the U.S. practice what it preaches? Privatize Airports- Catch up the World
• Why Oil Prices are High
• Why Swift Transportation May Have a Better Opportunity of Remaining in Business than YRC
• Why the FAA's Current Strategies Must Change
• Will a Class 1 Railroad Acquire a Trucking Company in 2008?
• Will GM Leave Detroit, Michigan, And The USA To Become A Foreign Company?
• Will the Abitibi-Bowater merger process drive more profit to the bottom line?
• Will The Ford Motor Company Abandon Michigan First, And Then, Ultimately, The United States?
• Will the US finally see a major airport transferred to the private sector?
• Will this be the last in the saga?
• WiMax- Opportunities in The World
• With it all on the Line, Jerry Moyes Brings Back the Team that Originally Took Him to the Dance at Swift Transportation
• With new ledearship, Will WY succomb to change, or stay the course?
• With the Berlin wall gone, President Putin is tearing down commercial walls as fast as he can
• with the massive amount of newbuildings contracted for,what will be the outcome in a global downturn
• Wow! What am I missing!
• Zim--good help for Grand Alliance but in the wrong trade lane