Commander Steel
Commander Steel
When he heard President Bush blew up the World Trade Center?
He is the Commander in Chief … the man in charge. Sheeple people who refuse to accept the fact that the Bush administration orchestrated the terrorist attacks of 911 are plain ignorant. It is impossible for a fire to melt steel unless assisted by something like "oxygen / acetylene" Jet fuel or kerosene does not burn hot enough to melt steel … VIEW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ELEMENTS. Also, if the floors collapsed planes crashed, causing a chain reaction that would have taken more than 90 seconds for the buildings down. They went down to free fall speed …. 9 seconds. There is no logical argument. Were pre-planted explosives in the building. Case closed! Why are so many people have difficulty in accepting this?
Bush was more likely, but do not think he was in charge. My number one suspect in the greatest crime that never go uninvestigated is the PNAC (Project for a New American Century). If you read through some of the lengthy documents on its website, it is clear that they had plans for a war in Iraq for quite some time, they even sent a letter to President Clinton to persuade him to invade Iraq. Members include Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Bill Kristol, Condoleeza Rice, and also had some involvement. But to answer your question, I was at home sitting on his ass a year ago when I heard that the WTC was destroyed by bombs, certainly not flat. I've talked to many people around, and some listen, some do not. I've heard a lot of arguments, as the pancake theory for example. But what surprises me is the fact that guilt is presumed in this case, was never established. We supposed Al-Qaeda was responsible, we take Osama bin Laden was guilty, but years later still have not seen any rock solid proof of this assumption. And if the government version of events is true, then why are they hiding everything? Why Rudy Giuliani order thousands of tons of debris from the World Trade Center sent to an unknown place where researchers could not study? Why Bush dragging his feet so long to keep the 9 / 11 Commission does not happen, then, why the Commission, since so many stipulations when finally did it happen? I know that none of this proves that they were attacked by our own government, but regardless, with all evidence being gathered, a new research is certainly warranted. The problem is that people do not have the imagination (or the guts) to accept the possibility. While not think our government could do something like this, will continue to get away with it, and do it again.
Steel Prices Soar – Panic Buying Sends Steel prices to record highs
May 23, 2008. We have seen steel prices soar to record levels in a report released by world steel producers confirmed concerns that current production could not keep pace with global demand. An official industry, who declined to be named, hoped that the panic buying to continue and noted that "for the last decade, prices for steel scrap fluctuated between $ 50 – $ 80 USD / ton. Late last year the price doubled to $ 150 – $ 200 USD / ton. In March 2008, doubled again to $ 345USD.
Today increase of $ 865 USD / ton reflects a decline in steel stocks to historically low levels and the inability to increase production to keep pace global demand. "An economist said today that the steel price at these levels will have a devastating impact on consumers around the world. Economies of the world are constructed of steel. Without it, the machine breaks down. Now there just is not enough for everyone.
Where will it end? Nobody seems to know. After today's activity, many feel more confident that the increases are ahead. How high is going to go?
Well, it depends.
As the old saying, there's good news and bad news. First, the good news. The above headline is not real. The story is fiction and records price described have not actually happened yet. The bad news is that the word "yet." You see, while now fiction, much of what happens in this story is slowly becoming a reality now.
Steel scrap, which was priced cheaply for years, has actually increased to more than $ 345.00 / Ton in recent months. Reservations are being exploited. The global demand for fuels, metals and food staples are creating shortages and prices these items continue to rise. China's recent economic expansion has had a huge impact on commodities supply and prices. The same offer / demand fundamentals that have driven crude prices to new highs are driving steel prices.
While oil demand increases worldwide, U.S. policy has been to preserve, rather than increase supply. For years, the strength of the dollar allowed the U.S. rely on the rest of the world produce the resources that we mind off to meet the growing demand of our nation. The resulting complacency led to a reliance on older systems no new additions to its place. More than 30 years have passed since a major nuclear power plant, oil refinery or steel mill has been built in this country. The last to be base, that was the state of the art in their time, are increasing and outdated and are no longer able to produce enough to sustain current demand.
As the once-powerful Yankee dollar loses its luster, our ability to import cheaply deficit is no longer a viable option it once was. To make matters worse, the worm has become that the recent strength of the euro and the dollar's weakness are slowly turning the U.S. an exporter where was once the largest importer. The result is an increasing demand on already limited resources.
The shortage and consequent price increases we are seeing Today is not an event from one day to another. U.S. natural resources has benefited more than any other country in the world. As one of the biggest consumers of resources the world, one would think that would be thinking of ways to use what we have. However, during the last 30 years, the U.S. have adopted a policy of use the resources of others while preserving our own, treating them as sacred relics should not be touched. Instead of finding ways to utilize the resources known U.S. over the past 30 years has been based in the world do it for us.
Americans feel that their appetite for foreign resources should be meet in the command. The world must not only produce what we want, but at a lower price. Therefore, if we have a shortage of gas, is the Middle East blame. drilling wells, but do it at home and outside of your banks to build more refineries, but in their cities. We can not do in the United States because it is dangerous, bad for the environment, and pollute the oceans and destroying the planet, so do it for us. Somehow, if another country does, is different. If prices rise in the process, however, the rest of the world is being greedy. These countries need to find a way to continue with our demand. Need to expand and build, but do so in their own money, quickly and efficiently without increasing their prices. Anything less and we will be outraged. How dare they? Unfortunately for the U.S., 30 years of neglect is not something that can be repaired anytime soon.
50 years ago, the U.S. was # 1 which we have had the biggest and meanest of all. We were building nuclear plants and had the world's largest coal mines, the major oil companies and the best refineries. The range of iron was brewing with activity and the country's steel production was the largest, the most efficient steel plants in the world. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania was the steel capital of the world, and the U.S. was the industrial engine of the planet that everyone else saw as the model for building their own economies.
The 1970s was a time before computers, Internet and email. Cell phones were the size of suit cases and a new technological era was in its infancy. Nuclear power has its growing pains. The drilling and transportation of oil is still doing the old school. We were experts in creating new technologies, but not to its preservation. Mistakes were made. While the rest of the world has adapted, refined and made full use of new technologies, U.S. not done. More than 30 years have passed as the U.S. continues to sit on the largest oil reserves in the world. We have not built a refinery, a steel factory or nuclear power plants while the rest the world has – and good ones at that. Yes we have the resources, but we do not do any good unless you use them.
While the U.S. sits without anything the world has left us in the dust. U.S. has fallen from # 1 to the third largest producer of steel, while Japan, a country with limited resources themselves, is now # 2. We have regressed from being one of the largest producers of becoming the largest importer of oil in the world. The oil drilling ship in the middle of this or countries like Japan to refine, to send it back to the U.S., because we have the capacity or refining capacity in the refineries that we have to refine the type of oil that you pump.
We have the brightest minds in the world and were responsible for bringing nuclear energy to the world. Unfortunately, France has now the title of world leader in this technology. Are independent of energy, building for themselves and the rest of the modern world nuclear power generate energy without any incident or accident. The U.S., once known as the center of nuclear knowledge, he has no people with the knowledge to build a plant even what we wanted. Most of these people are too old or have moved to countries that use their knowledge and expertise.
Activists environmental recognize that what happened in the past is past. It's 2008 and today's technologies dwarf those who built the systems that raised concerns in the past. See other countries not to enter into a cocoon, countries that have adopted today's technologies and adapted them to improve processes and safeguards of the decade 1970.
If France can produce plants safe and free of nuclear weapons issue, I think we can do the same here in the U.S.. If other countries can drill oil and ship and refine it without causing catastrophic effects, then I think we can too.
A further focus on the problems of 30 years and that the same problems still exist is religion, not realism. In the end, we are responsible for the situation where we are today because of our own selfishness and greed. We must stop expecting others to do for us what we refuse to do for ourselves. And we must stop criticizing them if they can not fast or cheap enough. And then we wonder why the rest of the world thinks Americans are a bunch of pompous fools, self-centered
We have to reach the program and show the world that we are not egotistical jerks. We are a nation rich in resources, but misuse and abuse them. With all our knowledge, all our resources and all our capacity, we are proud of ourselves pat on the back for building ethanol plants that burn food for energy growing we already have on earth but refuse to drill for. Currently there is a shortage of rice and other food in many parts of the world. We may think we're cool and fashion and the construction of ethanol plants to burn GREEN food to fuel our cars, but the rest of the world thinks we are stupid.
In the end, is a matter of supply and demand. With increasing global demand for the resources of our planet has to offer, the supply needs to keep pace or some will have to use less. The best way to allocate limited supply is to eliminate the demand side. This is done through prices. As prices rise, demand decreases. Some will pay the new price and others do not. Prices rise until the supply and meet demand equilibrium, where what is claimed to comply with what is available.
Today, prices are rising because demand is still greater than supply. Others claim that U.S. must begin to contribute to global supply and not rely on others to compensate for the deficit. U.S. still refuses to do so. Building windmills, solar panels and BURNING Our maize and sugar beet is not the answer.
There is hope, however. As prices rise more and more Americans are changing their attitudes. Many agree that we must start to implement real programs for the use of our available resources in a sensible way. We must take the initiative again. We need to drill new wells, building new refineries and build new, safer nuclear energy. We need to update our old mines and mills, and catch up with the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, 30 years of ignoring the problem can not be undone overnight. The elimination of bureaucracy and rules Writing and regulations to protect our systems without making them too expensive to take time. The construction of these systems and make the production of manned and unmanned overnight. Although we can solve the problem that took 30 years to create, we will have to live through a few more years until things change. By now, supplies are still lower than in a world where demand is growing. When you finish all is impossible to predict, but one thing is certain. Prices are high and heading higher, no one knows where it will end for now.
About the Author
Stafford Sterner is President of SJF Material Handling Inc. In business since 1979, SJF Material Handling Equipment (SJF.com) is located in Winsted, Minnesota providing of new, used and “renewed” material handling equipment & services nationwide.
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