GLG News by Mining Experts

America's domestic agricultural politics do not sell in the European Union  where farm subsidies are a very hot potato issue.Europeans not needing to look through the maze and haze of, for political reasons only, subsidized corn and subsidized ethanol along with logically nonsensical import...

The core of Chrysler is its design staff, and its design staff is the sum total of the history of the OEM automotive industry cross-pollinated by the past history of Chrysler, itself. There have been some great hits and misses in the recent past, and one of them saved the company from extinction.Chrysler...

The same old announcements are being dusting off an re-dated by the junior public relations employees of General Motors. There is no significant tangible evidence illustrated by reports in the open scientific literature of any progress in replacing supply limited platinum as the catalyst for...

It is unnecessary to hope for a zero-pollution car. It exists and has existed for nearly a century. It is called either the electric car or the hydrogen fueled internal combustion engine powered car.The current technology for fuel cells that can provide enough power from  a mobile unit to power...

Toyota's dealer network is not bursting at the seams with poor customer care caused by overcapacity or poor product quality; it is just the opposite. Toyota's dealers are almost all profitable, and have their own cash to invest in expansion.Toyota has agreed not to create dealerships just to get...

The news media are beating a dead horse.Profitability is all that any corporation cares about.Toyota won that contest over GM as much as a decade ago.Unit sales figures are unimportant.What is important is the unasked question: How far can Toyota ramp up the sales of unprofitable hybrids, before it...

There is today no battery technology, which will allow car makers anywhere to meet the standards they set for themselves for a "second generation" of hybrid, internal combustion engine/battery powered, cars such as the Toyota Prius.GM was in a dead heat, in the race to develop an "electric" car, with...

Ethanol as a fuel additive is a recurring political solution to the problems of farm surpluses that has been revived in the USA once again as a win-win for farm state congressmen and senators.

Diversity in hiring, DIH, is now supposed to be  a measure of how "good" a company is being to minority groups in general. But it measures hiring only.In fact the DIH rating actually measures only how well a company is complying with government laws, rules, and regulations proscribing...

Poor engineering by the Ford Motor Company has caused another expensive recall that will accelerate the burn through of cash from its recent second mortgage financing without adding anything of value to the company.Electrical connectors are specified by and must be validated by Ford, so it is not...