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Fusion a bright spot for Ford



By Gerald Helguero
01 July 2009 @ 01:55 pm ET

Ford Fusion was the vehicle with the highest jump in sales for Ford Motor Co. in June, as sales of the majority of the car maker's lineup slipped as summer begins.


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The Ford Fusion sedan is seen in an undated company photo. The Ford Fusion was the vehicle with the highest jump in sales for Ford Motor Co. in June, as sales of the majority of the car maker`s lineup slipped as summer begins. (IBTimes / Ford handout)
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Fusion sales climbed 26 percent to 18,561 in a month where overall sales at the company fell 10.9 percent to 174,091.

Among other gainers this month were light truck ranger, sport utility vehicle Expedition and crossover model Escape. Volvo's S80 sedan and C70 convertible also saw a jump.

Ranger sales rose 8.8 percent to 5,310. Expedition was up 7.1 percent to 3,862 and Escape sales were up 1.9 percent to 15,385.

Volvo S80 rose 6.3 percent to 1,098 and C70 sales were up 11.3 percent to 806.

The company's top selling line of vehicles were the F-Series trucks, which saw a decline of 7.4 percent to 35,915. Econoline/Club Wagon van sales fell 6.3 percent to 10,031.

The Ford Focus plunged 30percent to 12,573. Mustang saw a 29.9 percent drop to 7,632.

Brand Breakdown

Ford brand car sales fell 8.3 percent to 133,684. Lincoln sales declines 26.6 percent to 7,137 and Mercury sales dropped 37.1 percent to 7,332. Volvo sales were up 0.6 percent to 7,042

So far this year, total sales at Ford have fallen 32.9 percent to 775,498.

Car Types

By car sales type, the biggest decline in June came in Sport Utility vehicles, down 20.4 percent; Cars fell 17 percent to 54,040, Truck sales were 7.7 percent to 94,113.

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Jul 1, 2009 9:13pm

OIL COMPANIES KEEP THE WORLD IN BONDAGE By: Manfred Zysk, M.E. – June 30, 2009 Supertankers loaded with 2 million barrel oil capacity are used as storage vessels (100 million barrels) offshore, primarily in Europe and the U.S.A., tanker brokers said. About 70 million barrels are still floating. Ocean oil storage of $8 per barrel/month is now less attractive after oil prices for near-term delivery rose and now dropped to 80 cents. Ocean oil tanker storage generated huge profits when premiums surged for holding oil off the market by Koch, Vitol, Shell, Glencore, British Petroleum, and others. Oil trading profits are hard to track, but analysts say floating oil storage probably helped several firms book billions in collective profits since late 2008. British Petroleum has said crude storage plays helped it gain $500 million in trading profits during the first quarter alone. This proves that the USA and the world are at the mercy of the oil companies and they are allowed to pillage and drain the world economy into financial chaos. The world is being doped into submission with false claims and lies of abundant oil and fossil fuel resources with the help of the news media and several governments. Ever larger election campaign contributions by oil companies and corporations ensure that the government is controlled by corporate interests. Honest politicians do not have a chance of being elected, and our U.S. government has become very much against the interests of the average American citizen and national interests, such as by outsourcing jobs, opposing Social Security and not allowing affordable Health Care. On June 27, 2009, my Senator Merkley held a town-hall meeting and he proudly announced major energy developments and investments are taking place in wind, solar and even algae formulated with carbon dioxide for quick growth. Three wind turbine manufacturing companies recently declared bankruptcy in Oregon. Most people at the town-hall meeting supported new energy legislation. Several people shouted "drill baby, drill" (for oil). Many people appeared very hostile and uninformed about the fact that the oil companies are sitting on 68,000 acres of oil leases and refuse to drill for oil. These oil leases are claimed as financial assets, but actual oil deposits are not known, or may not even exist. The Algae World Summit ended on March 26, 2009 with professionals from all corners of the industry examined the realities and challenges of building a national scale bio-fuels industry for producing nationally 20 to 100 billion gallons (476 million to 2.381 billion barrels) per year. U.S. oil consumption for 2007 amounted to 20.68 billion barrels. Current, unrealistic claims were made of algae producing 15,000 gallons of bio-fuel per acre, while current peak productivity is on the level of 2,000 to 2,500 gallons per acre/year, and evaporative water losses from small-scale production run into millions of gallons per day. In spite of the hype, no solid technological research was presented for immediate useful commercial application. GreenFuel, in Cambridge, Massachusetts promised a large scale commercial algae production plant to be in operation by 2009, but further information about this plant is not available. Now GreenFuel plans to build a commercial 247 acre plant in the next few years. A clear majority of people at the town-hall meeting demanded single payer health care plans. A woman demanded that Senators and Congressmen have to read all proposed legislation, because when voting but not knowing what is in the legislation then would amount to fraud. The woman received much applause, and Senator Merkley did not directly respond. No factual data was presented and the town-hall meeting only lasted 1 hour, and over 20 persons had more questions, including questions about our wars and over our 700 military bases worldwide, and how our government can continue to justify such waste during our critical financial times and huge debts. Several angry people were opposed to most government programs and of paying taxes. For more energy information, please see: www.MZ-Energy.com Manfred Zysk, M.E. manfred5@canby.com Website: www.MZ-Energy.com

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