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To: Lance Bredvold who wrote (2118)	12/26/2006 12:01:56 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 2801

Lance welcome to the thread. I enjoy your insightful comments on the YH ARTW board. Lets hope the higher grain commodity prices lead to the purchase of some ARTW equipment in 2007. I really don't see many synergies on their recent acquisition. If it's growing and accretive to earnings. I can live with it. This recent news could help with margins. ITC Pulls Plug on Steel Tariffs December 15, 2006 Category: North America (Akron/Tire Review) Automakers and other users of high-grade steel won a major victory yesterday when the International Trade Commission revoked all tariffs and duties it had previously placed on imported steel. A coalition of automakers – including Toyota, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Nissan, General Motors and Honda – had sought removal of the 13-year-old tariffs, which impacted carbon steel plate from 16 countries. In addition, the ITC also dropped tariffs on corrosion-resistant steel imported from Canada, Japan, France and Australia. At the same time, ITC said it would retain duties on steel imported from South Korea and Germany. The move was considered a blow to the United Steelworkers union. The tariffs and duties were put in place in 1993 to eliminate dumping of low-priced and state subsidized steel from overseas, which had threatened domestic steelmakers. The ITC took the action even after the Commerce Department said that dumping of low-cost goods would restart if the tariffs were lifted. The ITC ruling may yet be appealed to the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. tirereview.com

To: Lance Bredvold who wrote (2118)	12/26/2006 7:07:58 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 2801

RE-Amory Lovins Sorry Lance there is nothing corporate reference yet. I am not familiar with him. In a search of this thread his name comes up a couple times.links below Message 23066812 Message 23061129 Ballard Power thread Message 20859981 I do remember another man though (Billings). Some older links you might find interesting. Message 20849816 siliconinvestor.com Amory Lovins is one of the world's foremost energy consultants and is the CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute, based in Colorado. His work focuses on developing advanced resource productivity and energy efficiency. His many innovations have won major awards around the world and Newsweek Magazine has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers." Amory Lovins talks about his latest book "Winning the Oil Endgame," co-sponsored by the Pentagon. In it, Dr. Lovins lays out a strategy to reduce drastically America's foreign oil dependency over the coming decades. He explains how this can be done through the implementation of a combination of fuel efficiency and clean energy systems. He sets out an alternative business case for proseperous US automobile, truck and aircraft industries - one that will make the US more self-sufficient. Americans have a choice, he says: either to import efficient cars to displace foreign oil, or to manufacture efficient cars themselves and import neither the oil nor the cars. Recorded in October 2004 bigpicture.tv