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Obama Provides More Tailwinds for LED Lighting Manufacturers

Here is a company that makes solar powered street lights using LEDs: www.solarlighting.com/, and American company in Florida.

Replacing streetlights or installing solar powered LED streetlights instead of conventional lights at government facilities could be one of the "shovel-ready" projects that would fit in the stimulus plan...

Marc Faber, Jim Rogers and Boone Pickens - Bullish on Oil

Oil wil be volatile, as the rest of the market will, in 2009, IMHO. I'm in USO and DIG, selling covered calls to add to the overall return and reduce my basis (protect my downside).
One thing the US needs to do is build more Waste to Energy (WtE) plants to generate electricity, which will then tie in with Pickens Plan, displacing the use of natural gas for electricity generation so it can be used to fuel our vehicles.
WtE is using an EPA-recognized renewable fuel that we are currently throwing away, will increase recycling, create jobs and bolster our economy. The US has the ability (the fuel) to build over 600 new power plants and employ hundreds of thousands of people. The plants should be built at existing landfill sites, because the fuel transportation is already established.
Companies like Covanta and Wheelabrator build and operate 90 or so plants currently - the designs already exist and are proven. This is one of those "shovel-ready" projects that should be included in BHO's stimulus package.
See my blog entry "More about Waste-to-Energy (WtE) " from 12.03.08 for more information.