In 2006 sulfur will no longer be in diesel fuel as per legislation signed into law by President Clinton. The EPA laws will soon be effective. So you want to take the Sulfur out of Diesel Fuel? Great, but not now; we need to phase this in. Perhaps require in two years that every truck manufactured not need it, and then eliminate the fuel in six years by raising the cost slowly as trucking companies trade in old units and retrofit those before re-sold. By that time we will all be looking into other technologies anyway. Slowing down the dollar and having a weak dollar may seem like the answer to improve the impending trade deficit, but at what cost? Why should we give back all of our economic expansion because other currencies and countries cannot legitimately control their corruption or protectionism long enough to improve themselves? We are allowing those who are not forthright with their own affairs to be rewarded and the United States who is doing everything correctly and a Fed, which has controlled its growth to be penalized. How can we tell other nations to follow our lead when we purposely screw up our own success. If the IMF cannot get the European community in line and the Asian Markets wish to play games, why should we slow down now? We are great and we earned our right to be the best. Let us take some of this expansion to improve the systems we use to produce more, faster and therefore we can sell for less. We are a sophisticated and brilliant group of entrepreneurs and we always rise to the occasion. Let free enterprise develop and adapt new methods to achieve more out put. I think everyone should read; Finite Capacity; it is a great book on the fundamentals of manufacturing and starts where Deming left off. It was written by one of our own and we should not forget the pass and learn from our mistakes. We need to stop this ridiculous committee, politics based decision-making and favoritism to certain industries and companies and get with a more global strategy of winning for the people. We, need those people to buy from us so we can provide jobs and productivity to create, innovate and propel the human race into the future and simultaneous clean up the Planet a little and lead the rest of the World by example. Those who do not step into line will be left behind. Those who do not like it can watch. Those who try to fight us, crush them. Diplomacy takes too long, it is a waste of breath for those who stand around and look for a hand out. Having a weak dollar against other World currencies is a great strategy for yesterday, but for tomorrow, not too sure. Let the entrepreneurs of today figure out a way to make it cheaper, and faster here in America. Give this generation of innovators a chance to prove themselves. Just because a few large corporations reported lower than street expected earnings for a few quarters due to the inability for the Europeans to shore up the Euro, is no reason to change everything midstream. Otherwise as they screw up worse and their currencies weaken again we will be driven down into a recession trying to balance they trade game. Think on this because everything discussed is absolutely fuel related. Think on it. |
