TOP 100 TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS SITES
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| Top 10 Automotive Online Advertisers by Image-Based Impressions Marketing Charts submits: Click to enlargeComplete Story » seekingalpha.com |
CSX Corporation Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript CSX Corporation (CSX)Q4 2009 Earnings CallJanuary 20, 2010 8:30 am ETComplete Story » seekingalpha.com |
YRC Worldwide Still Trucking Despite Rough Financial Roads Anthony Alfidi submits:YRC Worldwide (YRCW) is a big trucker hitting some rough patches. Their recent debt-for-equity swap has helped delay a bankruptcy filing but has diluted YRCW shares to the point where they are now trading as a penny stock, risking de-listing from NASDAQ. Even their CEO admits they still face significant challenges:YRC Worldwide cut its payroll 34.5 percent last year and a further 5.5 percent so far in 2010, reducing its workforce from 55,000 to 34,000 employees.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Eco Emissions Systems: Innovation and Potential for Platinum Group Metals Mark Anthony submits:Fossil fuels are bad pollutants, both BEFORE and AFTER they are burned. Before the oil is burned, they could pollute the ocean and kill birds. After the oil is burned, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide is emitted to pollute the air and destroy rain forests. But if oil is only partially burned, the pollution is much worse: it results in emissions containing carbon monoxide, a toxic gas which is several hundred times worse than carbon dioxide in its greenhouse effect; and various nitrogen oxides which kill infants and senior citizens; and worse, particulate matters which are cancer agents which cause millions of deaths per year. The world collectively generates a thousand BP oil spill environmental disasters per year by producing and burning fossil fuels, cumulatively killing many times more people than were killed in WW II.Incomplete burning of fuel is a big problem, it reduces fuel efficiency and creates air pollution. Scientists have worked relentlessly to solve the problem. The biggest progress so far has been the global adaption of catalytic converters on automobiles. Using PGM metals, platinum, palladium and rhodium, as catalyst metals in catalytic converters, auto makers such as FORD (F), GM (GMGMQ.PK), and TOYOTA (TM) are the largest industry users of PGM. What occurs in catalytic converters is basically after-burning: the incompletely burned fuel is once more burned, this time more thoroughly in the catalytic converters, hence it cuts the pollutant emissions.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
So What if GM Made a Big Quarterly Profit? Ryan Avent submits: Commenter JRoth says (among other things) that I blew it on the issue of saving the automakers: To my non-surprise, he’s written nothing. Back in the winter of ‘08-’09, he couldn’t say enough about the need to destroy GM: they would never be profitable again, it was a waste of money to save them, and they were an inherently wicked company. Three pages of GM-related posts come up on the site search, virtually all from that timeframe, and not a single one in the last year.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |