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How About a Coal Stock for Your Stocking?

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How About a Coal Stock for Your Stocking?

interesting article on EROEI (energy returned on energy invested).

this is why coal will be used first.....and take a look at oil produced domestically and even NG......the lower left hand corner of the graph is alternative energy from solar and such.....its return on energy is so low....that in its current output per energy input is a complete waste for energy production....its basically only good for development of new technology....to hope that we can develop it into something we could use commercially.

How About a Coal Stock for Your Stocking?

peak oil has occured or will occur very soon. I believe peak NG is closer than most realize....even with the shale gas. From what I have read and gathered....shale gas is unlocked from the shale from fracturing.......this process is water intensive....and not environmental friendly......the wells also have very quick decline rates....and a very small production curve....they don't produce large amounts for long.

Its possible that once the large NG fields decline....that we hit other constraints in NG production.....like water or environmental problems.

Cap and trade sounds more like a tax scam if anything. I agree that we need to be worried about our environment....not because of global warming (which could be a complete farse and probably is) but because we are running an expirement which we don't know the effects on to a planet that we exist on........the fear isn't global warming....the fear is global cooling which could be sparked from our expirement.....or possibly......global cooling will occur no matter if we release CO2 in the air or not.

And when people say....thousands of scientists concur.....that just means that no one knows whats going on....because all it takes for something to be correct....is solid proof/facts and it only needs to be found by 1 person. Not a consensus...which means = opinion.

Earnings to Watch This Week

Cat looks like its going to pullback for the next day or two.

Carbon Cap-and-Trade Could Increase Coal Usage

I think the fact that we are already burning sub-butinumous coal very quickly......will eventually lead to a shortage of coal that is energy dense enough to make it worth while to burn......we already peaked in terms of energy gathered from coal since the anthracite coal is already produced.

the peaking from oil and coal in terms of energy output and reduced EROEI will force us to go to alternative energy sources.....regardless of any of these cap and trade schemes.

Five PEG-Ratio Play Stocks for 2008

Yea, the coal companies looks good here...as does the oil companies and oil service companies.

But the PEG has one problem....you are estimating future growth....and the lowest PEG ratio's on your list have super high growth rates.....it would also logical to have a worst case PEG ratio scenario.