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Detroitpetanque
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:18 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How about cardboard !


Cardboard Car
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Iseries840
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

U.S. Steel isn't closing down!!
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Lilpup
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Back to the soybean panels!

(Don't park too close to hungry cows or such.)
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:47 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think that's the kind of vehicles the Dem congress is looking for. Nice and green. After all, they are the automotive experts.
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Danny
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

BUMP! FALSE INFORMATION without resourceful facts to back up your thesis.

U.S. Steel is up and running. Go look at the smoke stacks from Jefferson Ave.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 10:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

FEW DETAILS IN STEELMAKER'S PLAN TO IDLE PLANTS
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap /2008/12/09/ap5797473.html

On the other hand:

US STEEL SHARES JUMP AS ANALYST UPGRADES STOCK
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap /2008/12/08/ap5794194.html
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Iseries840
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 11:03 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The steel mills are cutting production to increase the price of steel. Just one of the benefits of the consolidation of the industry.
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Retroit
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 1:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How about cotton cars? I'm sure the southern Senators who raised such opposition to the loan/"bailout" would love it.

(Message edited by Retroit on December 09, 2008)
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Danny
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 1:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Johnlodge,

Where's the informative proving U.S. Steel is shutting down production?
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Detroitpetanque
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Word-Play.... but a bunch of folks who actually WORK at U.S. Steel are "temporarily" out of work until ... March... April... May??

What would you call it?
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Detroitpetanque
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here's what I gleaned information from:

http://www.post-trib.com/news/ 1313479,ussteel.article
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Detroitpetanque
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Danny... you're right... all of those thousands of laid-off U.S. Steel workers shouldn't think of it as "closing" but merely as a "re-adjustment of task forces for efficient usage of Ferrous materials creation"

http://getsteelnews.blogspot.c om/2008/12/us-steel-to-close-t hree-plants.html
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Detroitpetanque
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


delusional
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Bobl
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've been told that car license plates were once made of leather, which was munched on by farm animals and critters.....
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Otter
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 3:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Time to bring back the Adobe, perhaps!
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Sludgedaddy
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 5:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

...ooh...ooh...I am receiving visions of the Future....The local pimp is called WindFarm Slim and he is cruising the Boulevard in his tricked out Detroit Electric, with the original salon style seating, his impressive ringed fingers on the hand guiding the tiller, proudly proclaiming:"My Ladies is Electrifying!"
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Dannyv
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Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 - 7:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =myCDlel_Ek8&feature=PlayList& p=7E22745AEBA3A1F2&playnext=1& index=34

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