With addicts, they are the last to know. So it was pretty safe that our President was not letting the cat out of the bag a few years ago when he spoke plainly to the nation. All of our suppliers already knew. It was pretty obvious if anyone ever gave it a second's worth of thought. Sometimes I think that all of the saber rattling going on today is to drive the price of oil to over $100/bbl.

Because McIntyre has a plant in Illinois does not mean that they have control of Blue Island.  The rumor that McIntyre has taken over sulfation at Rhodia's Blue Island plant is wrong.