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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53385)8/10/2009 1:55:49 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218030
 
>>The price of oil would make freight expensive but now shipping costs have collapsed<<

Shipping costs have substantially recovered along with the rise in oil prices...

$BDI - Baltic Dry Index
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And the USA has found vast new dependable supplies of cheap natural gas that will favor local manufacturing...

$NATGAS - Natural Gas
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Along with a cheap new source of iron ore right in our back yard...

The next iron rush: Once upon a time, Minnesota's Iron Range was famous for minting millionaires.
Thanks to a new technology that promises to turn refuse into usable iron, history might repeat itself.

money.cnn.com



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53385)8/10/2009 2:45:57 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 218030
 
"I really do not think most people understand how low the true cash cost of ethanol is in Brazil."

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