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The 15 Most Cash Rich Companies

Dang, look at all the tech companies on that list! They certainly have the cash to buy other companies if they wanted to. Thanks for the list!

Electric Vehicles vs. Natural Gas Vehicles

Why not both NG and and electric vehicles???

Both are cleaner than the current gasoline burning cars we have on the road now, and both will help greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

The author is making a lot of assumptions about electric cars that may not be true by the time there are "millions of automobiles plugging into electric sockets as they arrive home from work each day." The first electric plugin vehicles aren't even sold yet, and by the time they do start selling them, it'll probably be a few thousand sold the first couple of years. It'll take time to build up into the millions of sales of these cars. Hopefully in the meantime, we can get our act together and get a lot more renewable energy on the grid. I suspect that many of the early adapters to electric vehicles will already have solar panels on their roof, eliminating the need to charge their car from the grid.

NG and electric vehicles are both a much better idea than any of the current types of cars we can buy today. I don't see why we should be picking winners already. Let's support both of them!

Global Warming Models: 'Out of Order'?

I don't know much about this e-mail, but isn't it a little suspicious that the e-mail was "hacked"? If it was hacked, it was obtained illegally, which also means that it could have altered to say anything that the hacker wanted.

Also it was posted on a Russian web site. If you've ever read anything about all of the latest computer security threats and viruses, you'll find that a bunch of them seem to originate from Russia. I'm not saying that that e-mail was made up, or altered in anyway, but you have to be a little suspicious.

PHEVs and EVs: Plugging into a Lump of Coal

What about people who have solar panels on their roof and generate all their own electricity? These are going to be the kind of people who first buy electric cars and PHEV like the Volt. You're making a big assumption that people who buy these vehicles will all get their power from the grid.

Climate Change Showdown in D.C.: Energy ETFs in Focus

All you guys that love to bash cap and trade aren't taking into account of the full cost of producing energy with fossil fuels. Sure coal is cheap to produce, but the costs that don't show up on your electric bill are things like all the health care costs associated with all the garbage getting spewed into the air, the costs of cleaning up the environmental damage caused by mining coal (mountain top removal, anyone?), and of course the future costs of dealing with climate change. When you produce electricity with solar, wind, and geothermal, you don't have these other hidden costs associated with them.

10 Highest Paid CEOs for 2008: Unbelievable

I sold CHK when McClendon's pay package was announced a few months ago. If he's not willing to take the pain with the rest of the shareholders, he's not on our side, and I don't want to be investing in that company anymore! Yes, I know nat gas fell off a cliff, but there are plenty of other nat gas companies out there who haven't pillaged from their company during this last year or so, I'd rather invest with them.

3 U.S. Industries Show Promise for the Future

Dear Mr. Lutts,

How did you get this article published on SA? I thought they only allowed negative and fear mongering authors to be published? Thanks for the positive outlook on the future, I wish everyone shared your vision!

ITC is a way to play a revamped electrical grid, no one really talks about that one.

Ford's Plan to Undercut GM's Volt

Why is everyone on here rooting for one or both of these technologies (and companies) to fail? Personally I think Ford and GM both have good ideas and I hope they have much success!

Whether you're charging a car partially and running the rest of gasoline or charging it fully and running it all on electricity, the bottom line is you're using a lot less imported oil over the life of that vehicle, and that is good for the US any way you look at it.

Evergreen Solar Plans to Move U.S. Panel Production to China

Dang that sucks, more jobs lost to China! Yea, they're going to restart the plant in Mass. if demand picks up......unless they can secure financing for another plant in China where they can just produce them cheaper! I fear for the future of this country, I really do!

Cap-and-Trade and the Cheap Energy Illusion

Great article! It seems like everyone who opposes some kind of plan to limit greenhouse gasses is very concerned about not raising energy costs in the near term, but they don't take into account all of the costs we'll have to pay in the longer term if we keep using fossil fuels as much as we do now. From mountain top removal to mine for coal, to the mercury, NOx, SOx and other toxic chemicals burning coal produces, to the added costs of health care because of the dirty air we breathe, to our rising deficits because of all the oil we import, these costs are never taken into account, and that should be. We have some of the cheapest, most subsidized energy in the world. We either start paying the fair price now, or we (and our children) will pay for it later.

5 Electricity Transmission Stocks for Your Clean Energy Shopping List

Good list, thanks for the ideas. I've been looking at ITRI more of as a smart grid play, but these are some good ideas too!

Obama's Energy Bill: A Recipe for Economic Destruction

jerrydd - I agree with you completely! It will cost us a little money up front, but save us a TON of money in the long run!

GM's Volt Could Earn a 230 MPG Rating

Unless of course the owner of the Volt also has solar panels or small wind turbine on his roof. Which in the first few years, those are the kind of people that are going to buy the Volt.

And although coal is dirtier than oil, at least it's produced here in the US instead of Saudi Arabia!


On Aug 11 11:11 AM Stockpikr wrote:

> Actually the mileage per gallon in the first 40 miles is infinite,
> since it's running on zero gas. It is instead running on about 25
> pounds of coal!

Will Pickens' Scrapped Project Slow Wind Energy Momentum?

The easiest way to get pushed back to the 1800's is to rely on a dwindling supply of fossil fuels while at the same time not pushing for renewable energy while we have the chance. Sure we can just forget about wind, solar, and geothermal power for the next decade or two, but eventually these fossil fuel sources are going to run out and then what? We don't have a plan B, that's what. We'll probably end up importing all the latest technology from China or whoever else took the initiative to develop renewable energy.

IMO, we either pay a little now, or a lot later!


On Jul 09 12:32 PM RLLH wrote:

> While I have several alternative energy investments, I think your
> rant is a bit over the top. Could it be that people push coal, oil,
> gas, etc. because there is no practical alternative over the next
> couple of decades? Or do you support a return to the 1800's until
> alternative energy becomes practical (and affordable)?

Chesapeake Energy CEO in Questionable Compensation Deal

Nice article! I think you sum up what a lot of us little guys feel!

When I found about about Aubrey getting $75million, I sold my position in CHK, even though it was at a pretty big loss!