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Fed up with increasing rates, customers, notably chemical, coal, agribusiness and utility companies, are complaining that these are evidence that the railroads are abusing their market power.
ECONOMIST: American railways
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In China, Shell technology is at the center of 15 coal gasification plants being built to produce chemical feedstocks at a lower cost than using natural gas.
FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas
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Wall Street values the reserves of coal companies at 7 cents per million Btu of chemical energy.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Chemicals may be a low-margin game, but when you transform coal and other substances into liquid fuels there are huge chemical runoffs.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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The grim toll of rising energy costs continues: Dow Chemical (44, DOW), dependent on hydrocarbons (oil, natural gas, coal) for feedstock, has endured a 23% stock slide from a year ago.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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There is no free lunch whether with coal mining or deep-water drilling, or for those who are honest, in the enormous underlying mining and chemical infrastructure needed to build vast arrays of wind and solar farms.
FORBES: Post Fukushima-- burn more coal and oil, and hire more engineers not regulators