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Construction Equipment

Are you sitting on a fortune?

Shale gas, mineral rights.

June 22, 2012

Construction Equipment

Chesapeake taps an oil gusher in Texas

Chesapeake Energy, oil wells, oil drilling, energy, natural gas, Texas, Eagle Ford, Apache

June 4, 2012

Oil Worker Copy

Petrocon launches national tire program for its members

Petrocon Corp. has launched a national tire program to its members. In the first month of introduction, nearly 200 members enrolled into the program, by a world’s top tire producer. With the program, Petrocon members become part of a 24/7, emergency roadside assistance within two hours of placing the emergency call. Other program services include […]

May 11, 2011

PPI for finished goods on the rise

The Producer Price Index for finished goods rose 0.7 percent in March, seasonally adjusted. This advance followed a 1.6-percent increase in February and a 0.8-percent gain in January. Prices for finished goods other than foods and energy moved up 0.3 percent. To see the full report, click here.

April 19, 2011

Construction Equipment

Cat boosts outlook based on quarterly results

Prompting a more optimistic forecast for 2010 as a whole, increased production helped fuel a 91-percent year-over-year hike in second-quarter profit for construction equipment manufacturing giant Caterpillar. “We’ve been highly focused on three things this year – significantly increasing production in response to higher demand from our customers particularly in developing economies, aggressively managing costs […]

July 28, 2010

FHWA chooses CH2M Hill in sustainable highway project

CH2M HILL, an industry leader in sustainability services for transportation, water, energy, and climate change, was recently selected by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to lead a team in the identification of the characteristics of a sustainable highway, and to develop tools, procedures and techniques that can be incorporated into a standard practice to […]

June 14, 2010

The best bill to ever come out of Congress

Forget everything else the Federal government is doing now. The Natural Gas bill, aka HR 1835 is coming up for a vote. If it passes it will do more to boost the economy, strengthen our balance of trade deficit and put more people to work than any other single initiative. It would also be a boon for the construction […]

March 4, 2010

Virginia eyes offshore drilling funds for infrastructure

Although still years from actually sinking an offshore oil well, the state of Virginia is considering using royalties from these future oil wells as a way to finance roads, schools and environmental initiatives. The senate majority leader tried to get the future money earmarked for the general fund, but was defeated. The bill passed the house and […]

February 25, 2010

Asia’s clean energy initiatives dwarf U.S. effort

energy, China, South Korea, Waxman Markey

January 15, 2010

Lobby tab for energy bill breaks records

If you’re still wondering why the Waxman-Markey/Energy/Climate bill turned out to be such a dog’s dinner, take a look at what Washington lobby groups spent trying to steer it–$27 million, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Of the 1,000+ groups lobbying for favors, some 460 were created in the first quarter of the year.

January 15, 2010

Renewable energy sources won’t be enough

Then again, according to this expert, solar and wind power will never be enough to replace hydrocarbon fuels. The trick is to find a balance here, between what we have and what the future might hold. But until environmental extremists recognize the limitations of physics and quit trying to score political points through the media, […]

January 11, 2010

The cap and trade fiasco

Toward the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany there was a joke going around Berlin about why the street sweepers had to be extra vigilant. People were afraid if they let any scraps of paper blow around in the streets that the Kaiser would come running out of the Reichstag and sign them thinking […]

January 11, 2010

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