hi buddy -good to see you are still kicking- these low oil prices should reduce the biggest costs -trucking-even though mexico is not subsidizing that as much or at all anymore- as you astutely pointed out on ihub- oil spiked to 120 due to libya war for kriton

and shipping-where oil is a big cost for shippers- for how much might be saved on shipping at these oil prices see my extensive series of Panamax ship cost calculations from oct 2011 on ihub board- a ship engineer who works on those engines gave me enough info to get started on those calcs -which is always a dangerous thing-giving me enough info to get started-humor

china slows some in winter-part of the problem despite analysts previous forecasts iron would rebound to 100 by winter