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  • Poor Performance Often Linked to Excessive Executive Pay
    AI, as I recall, it was the CEO of P&G, who was so outspoken about the need for a new generation of American workers who were better educated and more flexible, during the down-sizing that happened during the 1990's. While I haven't tried to research the individuals involved, either then or now, one now has to wonder if the need for change might have been slightly mis-placed. What goes around, often comes around again, but with a slightly different emphasis.
    Dec 09 13:10 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Aid for the Automakers? You Decide!
    I don't like it, but I agree with the author's stance, i.e., some aid, but with lots of provisions that would come with a cost to management, unions, debtholders, and of course, shareholders as well.

    To not do anything, is to risk something dark and deep, and I don't want to go there.
    Nov 20 08:43 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Future of Ethanol
    John, please define the term 'Sweet Sorghum'. Is this the tall (6ft.) 'cane' I saw being grown for cattle feed in Kansas when I grew up in the 1940-50's? Or is this the shorter version, 'Milo', grown all over the western Midwest for grain? The terminology is causing some confusion in my mind. Many thanks!

    I worked in the feed industry for several decades, and if I don't understand the terminology, there must be many others in the same category.
    Nov 13 07:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Political Energy Policy Just for Laughs
    A very good and accurate review. And those are far and few between in this enviornment.
    Sep 11 08:11 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
    Thank you, PaulK, but regardless of the tax amounts, the point is still the same. The tax will have to be replaced, in some fashion, it seems to me. Our roads are not being maintained, with the present tax structure, and this will only make that situation worse.
    Aug 26 11:48 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
    What to do about the lost taxes? If we sell CNG at $1/gal equivalent, and currently state, local, and federal taxes on gasoline are about $1.60, where will all the money come from to replace the lost taxes?

    Just a thought.

    I agree with the concept, but am just thinking ahead to the next problem. Replacing the lost taxes will have to be addressed at some point.
    Aug 26 09:01 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sick and Tired of Financials, Carmakers Blaming Everyone but Themselves
    Are there any recommendations or suggestions here? Nice thoughts, but I could get that from a poetry book.
    Aug 22 08:28 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sinking Slowly into the Sunset
    User 223180: 'I agree we should remove the tariff on importing ethanol from Brazil and Latin America. We need to force the oil companies to provide E85'.

    Why not just repeal the ethanol mandate, and let the free market decide what is best for all of us. If ethanol can compete in a completely free market, then I'm all for it, but we must get the gov't out of this business, so we can see what really works. Forcing the oil companies to do anything, is not using our free market system to our advantage, and is in fact part of the problem that we are facing today. Had we not 'Forced' the ethanol mandate down our throats, we would already be seeing the free market provide some alternative solutions, instead of the gov't mandated system we have today.

    Re: T. Boone Pickens and his plan, IMHO, it is the best and only really complelling plan yet presented. It may well have some flaws, but it is well ahead of whatever is in second place. However, enough of this talk. Let's get started now!
    Aug 10 21:30 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Oil a Bubble? Part One
    T. Boone says that natural gas is the future; as he says, 'it is available here domestically, we don't have to import it, we are finding more of it here currently as we begin to look harder for it, it burns cleaner than gasoline or diesel, and it is currently about 60% the price of gasoline or diesel so it is cheaper'. IMHO we would as a country do well to listen to what he has to say. The company he founded is offering their systems to fleet transportation currently. Here is a link:
    www.cleanenergyfuels.c.../
    May 23 15:38 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Oil a Bubble? Part One
    I see signs that we are beginning to conserve here in the states, but actual consumption of energy is still going up. At the same time, consumption globally is also still going up. There will be a correction in the price of oil, but the question is 'Are we there yet?' I don't think we are because of what I observe each day. Eventually, it will happen, but it is going to take more significant moves than what we come up with so far. We first have to un-do some of the mistakes we have made (i.e., ethanol). We are beginning to ask some of the right questions, but the solutions for us here in the states to me seem far in the future. In the mean-time, I will own oil and oil related stocks.

    I also am looking forward to Part II, which will likely promote more great discussion. I think such discussion, debate, or whatever, is a large part of the solution.
    May 23 08:47 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Oil a Bubble? Part One
    FXTrader, yes I am aware of the way the chinese subsidize gasoline, but how is that different from what we do with grain and ethanol production? A gov't subsidy in the US is not any different than a gov't subsidy in China or elsewhere. We do the same thing!
    May 23 08:00 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Is Oil a Bubble? Part One
    Great discussion. I vote with Papita and Ship Shape. An 'oil bubble' will become a reality, when we start conserving, and/or the developing countries are no longer emerging. We Americans look at the world only through our own perspective, and that ignorance of what is actually happening here is going to cost us big time. Those billions of Chinese, Indians, et al, want what we have, and are making progress towards getting it. They are buying cars now, instead of bicycles, and it is not going to stop just because we don't like it. We are beginning to take some basic steps towards doing some things right, but we have a long way to go, and the rest of the world is not waiting for us to figure this out. I'm holding my oil positions until I see some genuine progress, and at this time that seems a long distance into the future.
    May 23 07:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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