GM Under Fire For Palladium Position

Billings Gazetter ^ | Jul 10, 2009 | Jennifer McKee

[Harley]

HELENA - Tax-dollar-dependent General Motors is trying to cancel its contract with the nation's only platinum and palladium mine, the Stillwater Mine in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, even as it evidently retains contracts with foreign mines.

[Harley]

Another one of Obama's buddies (Gov Schweitzer) gets shafted. I'll bet he just bought a new GM vechicle too.

[raybbr]

Platinum, palladium and rhodium are metals needed to build catalytic converters, the part of modern cars that remove pollution from tailpipe exhaust. Those metals are mined in three places, said John Beaudry, public affairs manager for the Stillwater Mining Co., in Columbus: Russia, South Africa and Montana.

Let's see. Obama goes to Russia and Africa and now this? Coincidence? You decide!

[stuartcr]

Does anyone know which is cheaper? I would think that coming back from bankruptcy, GM would certainly want to go with the cheapest bid.

[GodGunsGuts]

Conservatives should openly boycott GM until it is returned to the private sector.

[Achilles Heel]

You mean lose more American jobs? THE ONE said he would curb outsourcing.

[org.whodat]

Corning Inc. a supplier of catalytic converter substrates, opened a new $77 million environmental technologies production facility in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The wholly owned Corning operation produces ceramic catalytic converter substrates for use in automobiles and trucks. Shipments of products began in early 2001. The new manufacturing operation joins Corning's global network serving vehicle and catalytic converter manufacturers worldwide. Corning currently manufactures catalytic converter substrates in Erwin, N.Y., Blacksburg, Va., and Kaiserslautern, Germany. In June 2000, the company opened a substrate manufacturing facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Corning operates catalytic converter substrate sales and customer service offices in Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; New Delhi, India; Sydney Australia; Singapore; Taipei, Taiwan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Wiesbaden, Germany; Troy Mich.; and Corning, N.Y.

What American jobs would that be???

[org.whodat]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FZX/is_5_67/ai_77082345/

[calico_thompson]

Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D-Mont
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont

The people of Montana deserve what they get when they elect these jokers. Schweitzer was a California trial attorney before he bought a ranch so he could play cowboy.