Essay on Case Study - Methanex

The Intensity of Rivalry among Competitors in an Industry (High): Equally balanced competitors exist within the industry such as BCF and KMD; these firms also face competition from retailers and wholesalers. The growth of the industry is relatively agile in both financial and technological aspects. The intensity or rivalry is further accentuated by relatively high storage and fixed rental costs, extensive product differentiation and minimal switching costs.

Much life a regular market, supply and demand are the main causes of the market volatility for RIN’s. Each year the required volume for blended renewable fuel increases. Meanwhile the supply for the blended fuel increases during summer months which can plummet margins (Fitzgibbon, 2016). Combined, oil companies are estimated to spend nearly $2 billion on RINs in

     Chevron Texaco, or Texaco Shell, is the leading competitor to ExxonMobil. Texaco is in the same areas of business as Exxon. Their petroleum products and lubricants are sold in the same markets, stores, and in many cases opposite street corners from each other. The two companies are very similar, but Exxon’s recent petroleum deals in the Middle East and Africa have allowed its stock price to jump ahead for the time being (1). In the industry, the two companies mainly compete for the ability to negotiate for new production. The competition is not made at the pump or at the local auto store. It seems that it’s more important to control oil than it is to sell it quickly. Because oil has so much value and power in the world, the industry is made of semi-friendly companies. Surviving and making as much profit as possible, is more important than trying to put people out of business.

There are many countries that the United States frequently traded with who are now under a set of economic sanctions today. The sanctions were designed to restrict a country to the resources of their country and their allies until they comply with specific request. The US-Cuban sanctions were suppose was supposed to be in place until democracy and human rights were restored in Cuba. One effect of the sanction resulted in Cuban citizens only being able to purchase vehicles made before 1958. Although this is a minor effect of sanction, can you imagine if you were only able to possess a microwave that was made before 1958?

The competition has been analyzed by using Porter’s Five Forces Model. By gathering an analysis of the threats that can come from competitive rivalry, potential new entrants, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, and substitutes, Company G can be better compared to its competitors.

This charcoal may be burned in today's coal-powered electric generators. Methanol makes a good automobile fuel, in fact it is used in professional automobile races. It may someday replace gasoline.

Competitive Rivalry: Competitive rivalry is relatively high as seen in previous competitor analysis. There are many competitors in the local market and on the shelf within the mainstream markets.

Martin, a behavior analyst, is working with Sara, a 14-year-old girl with severe developmental delays who exhibits self-injurious behavior (SIB). The self-injurious behaviors included pulling her hair, biting her arm and banging her head against the wall. After conducting a functional analysis, Martin decided to employ an intervention program consisting of differential reinforcement of other (DRO) desired behavior. Martin collected data on Sara's SIB before and during the intervention. Below is a depiction of the data that Martin collected:

What impact do you think the “Boomers” will have on the next 30 years in our society? Write a minimum three page paper in which you explain:

Embargos are rarely ever explained to the normal citizen and when the explanation of the embargo comes down from the country leadership it is more than likely propaganda that says, “the United Nations is out to steel our land”. When the leadership of the most powerful countries are about to create an embargo on they should be force to explain to the poor farmer or worker that is barely able to make a buck. This might be enough to give pause on the harm you are causing the country that is about to get

Our purpose was to use experiments and research in order to find the find best alcohol replacement fuel for methanol between 1-Butanol, isopropanol, and ethanol. We discovered that ethanol was the best replacement fuel by taking many things into consideration.

SCI have a big impact on Taylor’s emotions. It is common concern patient with SCI and TBI of experiencing depression, aggression an anxiety, so Taylor’s family and friends needs to be presented to provide emotional support and to make sure he is getting a good care. His motor vehicle accident which lead his best friend to die is a huge contributing factor to his behavior. Consulting a psychologist and having regular therapy sessions he could improve his anger management and coping strategies. More over psychiatrist can help Taylor to manage his depression and anxiety by prescribing anti-depressants.

Exxon and Chevron are no doubt some of the leading incorporated oil companies on the globe. Exxon Corp. is the second largest oil firm after Royal Dutch Shell, it is respected for getting the biggest revenue return in 2008 which no company in the U.S. have ever reported before. According to Wilson (2009) Chevron has managed to show a lot of profitability in the market despite the decease in its oil production. It graded as one of firms which made a billion dollars profit within a week in the period of July to September 2008. Regardless of profitability trends set by the two oil firms in the U.S. market, they have been facing financial decline like the rest of the companies in other industries. The two firms are like two sailing ships which are taking longer time to sink. In the last few years, the production capacity of Chevron and Exxon has decreased and their listings on the stock market have become weak. The continuation of construction and drilling which requires billions of dollars in expense of oil production might make them experience a bigger financial crisis (Wilson, 2009).

Competitive rivalry exists between companies with the same or similar products/services and similar markets. Factors to be considered include:

In late 1970 's to early 1980 's, the competition in U.S. gas market lead the market price of gas become unstable. There are three major types of economic units in the gas market, they are suppliers, customers, pipeline companies. Suppliers and customers enter into a long term contracts with pipeline company because of the uncertainty in the price of gas. Therefore, U.S. government trying to control the price of gas by strictly regulation and caused shortage in gas market. The situation became worse in middle of 1980 's. U.S. government started to deregulate the gas industry and the demand for gas declined. Pipeline companies face many financial problems with no customers. The deregulation create a short term volatility in gas price and making gas users more challenging to do planning and pricing. At that time, Enron provided long term fixed contracts to their customer and help the customers to