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That's too bad. We should all be worried about what's going on.
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I don't want it to hurt anyone, but I sure don't want my family and friends hurt by all this.
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I spoke with one of the guys that I work with, Shane, this afternoon. He was out looking for a home to rent today. We were his landlords, until this past summer when we sold the home he is living in to a gentleman in the oil business. The new owner planned to continue to rent the home to Shane and his family. However, he notified Shane yesterday, that due to the price of oil dropping so suddenly, he is having financial troubles and must move out of his home in town and move into the rent house. When Shane paid his rent yesterday, he was given a 30 day eviction notice. I feel so bad. If we hadn't sold the property, this wouldn't be happening. Although, selling when we did was a really good thing for us.
It looks like none of us will be spared some hardship as a result of these times.
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Well, it happened......
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090106/lyond...ankruptcy.html I've been working feverishly trying to minimize our loss potential ever since first starting this thread. My e-mails and phones fell silent about 3 p.m. when the news hit. I really do not know at this time what this means. It was like a crash had occurred, but there was no noise. Those of us in the frey of things were just stunned. We were racing against the clock and the time ran out.
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Three of my neighbors, two girlfriends, and a lady who bought one of my pups work at Lyondell. I hate that this is happening. Were they being too greedy?
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LyondellBasell is not the only company in this industry in trouble. Ineos is having trouble covering their debt. Dow lost the Kuwait deal and committed to buy Rohm & Hass this summer when stock was high. Now they are trying to renegotiate the purchase and may sue Kuwait to recover billions lost on that deal. Dow is the largest chemical company in the world. LyondellBasell was number 3. When giants like these have problems, there will be ripples into other industries as well. Also, it seems to begin a domino effect once one falls, others follow. The news is so fresh, we don't know what to expect, yet. There will be some reductions in force. We just have to wait and see how the restructuring works, and whether or not we get paid. I don't know what tomorrow will hold, whether we will be shipping to them or not. I'm figuring, not, but will have to wait and see. I've been in this industry since 1979, and have never seen a time anything like this. I was hopeful until today. Now, I really don't know. I've never seen so many units just not running. The entire Invista, Lyondell, DuPont plant site in our area is down, no steam or anything. Most of the company employees/non-contract people are still there, but for how long? Houston could be the next Detroit at this rate. Very, very sad!!
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I know it's really scary. When it affects a big company like that it is a trickle down
effect. My husband works in Ag-Fertilzer business and they are taking a hit too. So that will affect the farmers and then turn around and hit us again at the grocery stores. I along with others I'm sure are praying it will stop soon. We've had it good for to long. It's amazing what greed can do to people. Your in my thoughts and prayers. I'm sure if God had an e-mail address his inbox would be overflowing a gazillion times over.
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