Power Analysis:
Corp Banks Utilities ...I can't read the last one. All the areas he's attacking and taking over. Think it's an accident?
Posted on 07/10/2009 11:03:57 PM PDT by pissant
Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution.
By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had shown a bias against his state -- at a time when other U.S. jobs were protected with a "buy American" clause in the $787 billion stimulus act. GM is shedding its contracts with Stillwater Mining Co.'s platinum and palladium mines as part of the automaker's emergence from bankruptcy protection.....
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Columbus-based Stillwater employs more than 1,300 people and runs the only mines in the United States producing the metals, about 90 miles southwest of Billings.
With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry.
A White House spokesman declined comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
FUBO!
When will these Democrats realize what a loony this President is? It is on full display every day.
What you need is a graphic with “shovel ready” over a image of five Chinese guys standing next to a bulldozer...and then under the five Chinese guys...the words: “There weren’t enough shovels in the US”.
Every single thing 0bama has done has hurt the economy. I don’t think that is an accident I think it is Cloward-Piven Strategy.
So how is voting for two Democrap senators and one Democrat governor working out for you, Montanans?
Schweitzer is one of the very few NRA-approved Dems and a good number of his policies are libertarian, yet he’s a Dem.
I think this was the price for Putin giving us access for military flights to Afghanistan when he recently met with Obeyme.
That is precisely the goal.
Not too good!
Probably as well as for the Californians.
Power Analysis:
Corp Banks Utilities ...I can't read the last one. All the areas he's attacking and taking over. Think it's an accident?
Did Montana go to McCain or to Obama? There’s your answer. GM is Obama’s pet project. Montana is NOTHING.
Well this will surely make me want to buy an American car. Idiots.
It reminds me of when Clinton made the gas in Utah off-limits and the Lippo group got the benefit.
That is precisely the goal.
Yep. As we have seen in the oil industry every time there is a price runup and spike with a subsequent collapse in prices, experienced people leave or get shut out by the implosion and either retire or go find work in another field to feed their families.
The drain of experienced people makes it hard to restart operations later, makes it unnecessarily expensive to do so, and damages the industry.
Platinum group metal production is as much a part of national security as oil, especially with the metal needed as a catalyst in many industries, not just catalytic converters for automobiles.
Not just gas, but some of the cleanest burning coal in the world. The other two deposits were in Kosovo and Indonesia...
Leave it up to Congress to declare all cars must use a rare metal to clean engine exhaust before it leaves the tailpipe.
Green shoots! Right into Russian bank accounts go the green shoots!
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