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...Part of that efficiency is what Edward Miller, a Honda spokesman in Alabama, calls a modern "harmonious flow" - having nearby vendors supply parts, and workers assemble them, as they're needed rather than stockpiling too much inventory or flooding the market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...
...admitted car nut, he proudly shows off the vintage cars he keeps in a special area inside the dealership. There, 15 mint-condition cars gleam amid old Skelly gas signs and an antique manual pump frozen at 19 cents a gallon. A juke box features Sinatra, the Ink Spots and Peggy Lee. The colors are spectacular. There's the two-toned gray and salmon '55 Bel Air and the silky green '57 Thunderbird convertible. How could a country look at cars like that and not fall in love...
...course, the wind doesn't always blow. At Kuzumaki Highland Farm, 200 dairy cows share the power load. Their manure is processed into fertilizer and methane gas, the latter used as fuel for an electrical generator at the town's biomass facility. Nearby, a three-year project sponsored by Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's New Energy Development Organization (NEDO) uses wood chips from larch trees to create gas that powers the farm's milk and cheese operations. The bark of other trees is also made into pellets for heating stoves used throughout the community. A local winery...
...energy industry, so the state "should have more resistance to, but not immunity from, recessionary conditions," according to state comptroller Susan Combs. When the legislature convenes for its biennial session in January, Texas will have a big surplus, thanks in part to last year's booming oil and gas revenues - one of only nine states...
Falling prices are only the No. 2 concern on the worry list of 21% of chief financial officers at U.S. oil and gas companies, according to a survey by BDO Seidman, an accounting and consulting firm. The No. 1 concern of 57% of the CFOs was access to capital. While the industry is not as capital-intensive as it once was, Perryman says, it is still intertwined with the health of the financial system. However, in Amarillo, where the energy sector is about 25% of the economy, the talk around the coffee shop is still dominated by the price...