http://www.wealthtodayblog.com Personal Finance Advice On Being Rich, Investing Wisely, Reducing Debt, Repairing Credit, Budgeting, Taxes, Savings Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:50:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.wealthtodayblog.com/dow-chemical-increases-prices-by-twenty-percenty http://www.wealthtodayblog.com/dow-chemical-increases-prices-by-twenty-percenty#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 20:50:30 +0000 joshuak http://www.wealthtodayblog.com/?p=211 Dow’s CEO, Andrew Liveris, blames the US Government’s long-standing policy of inaction towards the rising energy crisis for the company’s recent hike in prices on all products across the globe by up to 20%. Dow claims a 42 percent increase in cost of their energy and “feedstock” (the raw petroleum from crude oil) for the first quarter compared to a year ago. My concern : Dow’s extensive list of products and services is a far reaching bohemeth and this price increase will gouge into the pockets of other industries that are already hit hard by the increase in fuel prices.

]]> http://www.wealthtodayblog.com/dow-chemical-increases-prices-by-twenty-percenty/feed 2