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To: elmatador who wrote (85224)	12/29/2011 5:37:17 AM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218584

>>It is a miracle<< Not really. To paraphrase Richard Brautigan from his novel Trout Fishing in America: Whenever Team USA feels the sharp point of the hook, it either jumps off, or twists off, or squirms off, or breaks the leader, or flops off, or f*cks off. I expect we'll do it again. Cheers! ;)

To: elmatador who wrote (85224)	12/29/2011 7:31:45 PM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218584

>>The suffering will be unbearable...<< Oh, the humanity! :o) Rail-Freight Surge Shows U.S. Skirting Recession bloomberg.com Commodity carloads such as chemicals posted the second- largest jump of 2011, up 12 percent. Intermodal carloads, which can move by rail, road and sea and often move retail goods, rose 23 percent, the most in a year. Shale-gas boom spurs race between states poconorecord.com Shale-gas production is spurring construction of plants that make chemicals, plastics, fertilizer, steel and other products. A report issued earlier this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated that such investments could create a million US manufacturing jobs over the next 15 years. ***** "This shale-gas development is a game-changer of huge proportions," said Dan DiMicco, chief executive officer of Nucor Corp., a steelmaker based in Charlotte, N.C. Nucor is building a $750 million plant to make iron from natural gas and iron-ore pellets near the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La. DiMicco said the investment wouldn't have been possible without the lower costs that have come with shale gas.