METHANEX is the world’s largest methanol producer, whose success is in large part due to its cost leadership and reliable delivery. The purpose of this report is to analyze the situation facing METHANEX and recommend a set of strategic plans for it to tackle the current challenges in moving forward. In ensuring low-cost production, many of METHANEX’s production plants are based in emerging market economies. This strategy is met with various problems of poor infrastructure and political instability, resulting in inconsistent gas supply and crippling its production plants. In addition, the lack of diversification makes METHANEX completely reliant on the stability of the market for methanol.
He must declare the sales proceeds. $1,000 gain on sale. Ken's stock sale proceeds | Amount | Sale Proceeds ($32 x 1,000 shares) | $32,000 | Less Selling Expenses | $0 | Amount Realized | $32,000 | Less Tax basis ($31 x 1,000 shares) | $31,000 | Gain on sale | $1,000 | c.) Ken received $25,000 from an annuity he purchased eight years ago. He purchased the annuity, to be paid annually for 20 years for $210,000. Gain of $14,500 Ken's Annuity | Amount | Total investment into annuity | $210,000 | Number of payments | 20 | Return on capital for the payments | $10,500 | Ken's
1: Tariffs encourage Americans to buy U.S.-made products. (Points: 13) I find this position to be valid. Tariffs are basically taxes on imports, thus making imported goods more expensive to buy (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2008, p. 75). Protective tariffs are designed to raise the retail price of imported products so that domestic goods are more competitively priced (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2008, p. 76). Therefore, if when a consumer enters a store and sees similarly priced products, one imported and one made domestically, they can choose a US made product without feeling as if they are overpaying for the same product.
A monopoly is where you can set prices almost everywhere you want, and there is no other competition. This is referred to as predatory pricing, where companies charge a price lower than production costs. These companies believe their competitors can’t afford the loses. Cable companies don’t worry about competition due to the protection they enjoy from the government. The cable companies get away with this by claiming they do not have competition, cities award them the contract by providing coverage, even though they may not have the lowest price.
Jeffrey Owens April 19, 2011 Geography, 100 Removing the Purple Mountain Majesties The use of Coal in America has become second nature to United States citizens, and American corporations. Coal is used for energy across the U.S., and is very important to the economy and the structure of our nation. Using coal for electricity has become as American as hot dogs and automobiles and while coal is very necessary and useful, some as destructive and controversial views some of the means by which the coal is recovered. Mountaintop removal has is one of these means of obtaining coal, and has sparked interest and outrage across America. Although the benefits of coal are numerous and extensive, Mountaintop removal is detrimental to the environment
If creating pipelines that stretched out more than 2,000 miles could be done in a snap of a finger, then not much of funding from outside sources would be needed. But this world does not live on magic fairy dust, it requires hard working employees to drill, bolt, heat-rod, measure, design, and construct this pipeline transport. This pipeline construction will give thousands of jobs to our economy that desperately need them, because jobs fuel money to the economy. There are still arguments about the keystone pipeline, even though it would bring the economy’s revenue elevate and provide surmount of energy for a long period of
Where American energy policy is far less sensible is when it comes to the price reflecting the true cost. Tiny petrol taxes take no account of the damaging effects of pollution. This newspaper has long argued for a carbon tax to make dirty energy more expensive and thus curb demand. If that happened, some of the new oil might not be worth extracting: Canada’s heavy oil, for instance, emits about 6% more carbon dioxide than normal oil, which in turn can be 30% dirtier than gas. The biggest bonanza from all this new energy would be if the users paid the real cost of consuming oil and
To prove this theory what Fogel does is to use the data in 1890, compute the social saving when people replaced the rail transport over the water transport. This is a progressive method because it is impossible to analyze the data that covering almost half a century. While the railroad lines were nearly completely integrated in 1890, therefore at that time, the railroad network has reached its most efficient level. Thus, the social saving in 1890 was higher than any other previous year. However, the actual data for the transportation rate show that the water rate was in fact significantly lower than the railroad rate.
The chief advantage of hydro systems is it costs a lot less than other sources of energy. Hydroelectric plants are immune to price increases for fossil fuels and do not require imported fuel. On the other hand as hydroelectricity is increased petroleum/oil should be decreased. Hydroelectric plants generally have small to none emissions of carbon dioxide and methane due to reservoir emissions, and emit other pollutants associated with combustion. Hydroelectric plants may be able to reshape water flows to more closely match daily and seasonal system energy demands.
The UK has used the vast majority of its easily accessible energy reserves already. Most of the remaining coal is very deep underground in geologically complex formations making it expensive to mine. Furthermore, much of this coal is high in sulfer which contributes to acid rain, and the clean deposits require opencast mining which is even more damaging to the environment as they are often found closer to settlements. As a result of this, it has become cheaper for the UK to import the vast majority of their coal from South Africa and Australia as they have the right conditions to mine it. This makes them both cheaper and less environmentally damaging than Britain.