Sandy Cohen

Synfuel Earnings at Risk? (DTE, TE, DQE, WPS, SO)

The cash flow from the synfuel tax credits starts to come to the companies that have recorded these credits AFTER the credits expire ... after 2007.

So ... until 2007, EARNINSG are created, in the form of tax credits (non-cash) that reduce a company's tax bill through 2007. Then, after 2007, the EARNINGS benefit goes away, but cash flow starts to be reported (do not ask me how or why, it is an acounting thing, not my strength).