Energy: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
There’s lots of ways to move goods and people in today’s economy, but which option is the most economical?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is Thursday, June 22nd, 2017, so we're talking about energy, materials, and industrials. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm our host, Sean Riley, and joining me in studio today is our special guest, |
| 0:16.7 | Motley Fool Contributing Investor, Mr. Adam Levine Weinberg. |
| 0:19.3 | How's it going today, Adam? |
| 0:20.6 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:21.5 | How about yourself? Not too shabby. I'm glad to be inside out of this DC heat. |
| 0:26.2 | Yes, absolutely. Another 93 degree day. It's too much. I will never understand why the founders |
| 0:31.7 | decided to build the capital in what was essentially |
| 0:34.6 | a humid swamp, but there you go. |
| 0:38.0 | So today is a very special episode because we're going to be talking about all the different modes |
| 0:42.2 | of transportation that keep commerce in the |
| 0:44.0 | U.S. economy humming. |
| 0:45.9 | That is right. |
| 0:47.6 | We are talking about planes, trains, and automobiles. Sir, sir, excuse me. |
| 0:57.0 | I know this is your cab, but I'm desperately late for a plane and I was wondering if I could |
| 1:00.8 | appeal to your good nature and ask you to let me have. |
| 1:03.5 | Now if you love comedy movies or at least Steve Martin and John Candy, you probably recognize |
| 1:07.5 | that scene from the 80s film, Plains, Trains, and Automobiles where Steve Martin's |
| 1:11.6 | character struggles to travel home via multiple |
| 1:14.0 | transportation options for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious shower curtain ring salesman |
| 1:18.7 | played by John Candy. |
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