Another "Car" Outselling The Chevy Volt -- All About the Bakken, North Dakota, USA

I can't take credit for that "opening."

"Anon 1" asked the question, comparing sales of another "car" with the Chevy Volt.

Answer is here.

FTS International Inc., a hydraulic fracturing company that is planning an initial public offering this year, sees a shortage for the next 8 to 12 months for railcars needed to haul fracking sand to wells.

“Railcars are in very high demand,” Kevin McGlinch, senior vice president of FTS International, said in an interview today at its Fort Worth, Texas headquarters. The cars are used for moving grain and “also, within the energy space, there’s us and lots of other people trying to get these same cars at the same time.”

Railcar orders more than doubled to 20,165 in the third quarter of 2011 from a year earlier, according to data from the Railway Supply Institute. The order backlog for U.S. freight cars more than tripled to 65,044 in the same period. 

For investors:

FTS International, formerly known as Frac Tech Services LLC, is 30 percent-owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) The company is still seeking joint-venture deals with companies in Saudi Arabia, China, Brazil and Argentina, among others.

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