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  • Clean Energy Fuels Steadily Heading For Profitability [View article]
    Is not just their back office expenses higher than their gross profit
    owe i guess if you leave out all cost but the fuel it looks good
    What economic school did you go to?
    Does this work well?
    Hell management could easily pay this with the money they made ni stock bonuses
    May 17 07:22 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Clean Energy Turns Profits Into Stock Losses [View article]
    a simple answer to you
    If you look at the number of shares when it went public
    it has added 75% of that every year on average since went public
    management and Boone got a lot with free warrants and to grow and pay bills thats why they have needed to
    The stock sells for less than when it went public
    yet management and Boone have made 100s of million of dollars
    They have and continue to make huge amounts of money with free warrants
    what have they done with these free warrants
    a steady buying of the stock at $3 and selling at the market price and have many more to do the same
    May 13 10:04 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    I got a call about investing in line months ago from a company pushing its stock
    i usually do not invest in stocks when a boiler room pushing
    I do like GE and Shell
    May 13 09:50 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    And to my point,these would require capital to do more
    yes all of clne should do much better this year.And most of these others clne owns which is good but they can not do more
    Indrd48 has it right and the author has also pointed out others.
    As it gets bigger capital and owning is what my theme was
    For this year
    Which companies will be proving the equipment and parts for
    the infrastructure could be a theme as these will be the ones that have the highest growth this year and profits this year and show up this year
    I invite others with much mote knowledge than me to recommend
    I have not looked at these because a lot have already been recognized in wall street I believe
    May 13 09:43 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Clean Energy Turns Profits Into Stock Losses [View article]
    correction
    get 60 million dollars cash instead of 20
    May 12 11:43 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Clean Energy Turns Profits Into Stock Losses [View article]
    There main bet on new lng facility is the 2 plants that Ge is to build
    The president has just about said they will be out of money this year and is planing to raise more
    They do not have a lot of assets vrs debt
    their cost of raising money going up
    Lets lok at the last cost to borrow
    GE 8% plus 5% of the company for free to Ge,where they also need to come up next year with 60 million dollars
    To build Ge required and already got 5% of clne.8% interest rate and plus 20 million cash
    Their latest is 12%
    So now they are going to have to borrow to come up with the
    60 million down payment
    So ng is getting bigger
    Clne borrowing cost is just so much higher than its competition it will not be able to compete
    So yes their sales are going to go up a lot
    They own 2 stations ,the rest are management contracts
    W hen they expire and volume up they will get much less per gallon.They have such huge borrowing cost they will not be able to compete in new work that requires capital
    Investments are what make money
    They have the highest borrowing cost
    They will soon be left out of the growth
    May 12 11:41 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    If I had to pick a winner it would be Enn energy
    I am not invested in it
    Price too high
    Too high for its growth?
    I do not know and its Chinese
    May 12 09:03 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    I have most of my money in real estate I have had for a long time.I try not to comment on what I am not sure on.
    So I do not follow the whole picture.
    I just follow stations and vehicles.
    I gave examples to show why clne will not make it.
    when Ng gets big you need either money or teck or a well run company with low overhead
    Clne has none.
    Right now wprt
    Has teck
    Has volume as they are the biggest which reduces cost to make
    Management does not over reward them self like clne.
    But here is the problem for wprt
    The 3 companies they deal with.
    Volvo,Weichai and Cummings
    All are much bigger than them
    Well which one or all have rights in USA ,Asia and the rest of the world to make
    Its still to be determined.
    It was in all benefit wprt to get bigger for volume
    now I will use Cummings as an example
    They use wprt teck in US only
    They are a world company and produce in many markets
    can they use wprt product in Asia?
    What is the split in profits
    Cummings has and will even in the US make ng vehicles with out wprt
    Wprt is a small company ans so it has to guess which is the best teck and just make that ,They can not make a lot of different products.They could get it wrong or some users might find their product not the best for them
    So I am just also trying to say wprt does not have access to large volume of cheap money. but is in better shape than clne
    You have given examples of companies that compete with wprt.Well that was my point.Ng is getting bigger and who will be the winner is still to be determined.
    The author of this article picked clne as a winner
    I believe any one looking at the facts would see there is no chance
    May 12 08:57 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    when ng gets big and it should
    your local gas company will run gas lines to stations
    the cost they will sell at todays price is about 60 cents a gallon for them and 85 cents to the station
    If they run a big enough line ,size and pressure than storage tanks not need
    So in about 4 years cng will be selling at about $1.25a gallon
    we will say that ng will rise about 25% in price to about $5 per kcuft3 and sell for cng to $1.50 a gallon
    Its coming
    Why so long
    Volume
    To make every part about the product,getting, engine ,fuel system,tanks all take time to get better and make cheaper
    As more is used there is more money to invest in these things and more companies willing to invest in these
    Clne has huge over head,high salaries and high debt
    Their current cost to borrow is 12% and rising
    When ng is big others like shell,Enn and others are borrowing at 2% for shell and 5% for enn
    Clne will not be able to borrow to grow bigger
    Others with lower borrowing cost will beat them out
    If they owned the stations they run they would make a lot more money with the much larger volume
    But they are just under contract
    When they renew the contracts they will get much less per gallon to run
    Westport is the leader in teck
    It has patents
    It would be a better play
    Of coarse when it gets big they do not have the money like Cummings ,Ge,GM,etc.
    So for them its how good their teck is and can they keep up having a better product than the rest
    They do not make the product
    They design the product and provide volume with selling to many made by others
    May 11 09:15 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Has Natural Gas Finally Hit Bottom? [View article]
    clne is just mostly a management company
    it owns about two stations
    How much would you pay per station for a management contract
    Its about 3 million
    At 100 per share you would be paying about
    21 million a station
    What is a management contract worth
    May 10 03:52 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Natural Gas Sets Tone For Retail Travel Centers [View article]
    talk about getting the story wrong
    Wprt sighed an agreement with Enn
    Enn will be in competition with clne and is a 45 billion dollar company vrs. clne 1 billion
    Wprt is going help Enn to retrofit diesel trucks to ng
    clne has been doing ng for many years in the Us and has plans for say 350 stations
    Enn just started and 50 this year and 200 within a few years
    Apr 4 08:32 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Clean Energy Boosted By U.S. Natural Gas Refueling Station Plans [View article]
    there is no one price.At $4 some will go back to coal
    at $5 more
    But not many will build new coal
    Many have the choose
    So the price and use of coal is determined by ng price
    Ng is going to$5 To $6 in the next few years
    Apr 1 01:32 PM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Natural Gas And Commercial Transportation: The Hatching Egg [View article]
    Enn
    a 45 billion dollar company and growing 25% a year and profitable
    They just got a 5% loan with warrants at stock price
    Clne got a 8% loan and had to throw in 6% of the company for free
    Mar 30 12:51 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Natural Gas And Commercial Transportation: The Hatching Egg [View article]
    They own only two
    As far as leases
    Most of their leases where done for the user of their product
    The user could have done the lease ,It was just in their contract to do it
    At the end of the lease they have almost nothing or little
    Clne has no more rights or at most if it bids the highest it gets
    Clne has premium locations?
    Are you dreaming/
    Airports ,trash and such
    At the end of contract
    Air ports ,trash,etc will just put up to the lowest bidder
    We will now look at pilot.The locations are not in or at big cities mostly.This is a 10 year contract with almost no details
    The good locations have been saved by them and no indications in fact they are probably not going to use clne if for no other reason clne can not afford to do them
    By the time the 10 year contract is over there will be much better pumps out there and will need to be replaced
    Sir
    It a fact
    They are a contract company in 98% of what they do and their back office expenses are huge.Thats not good for just a contract company
    If it is as you say than why did wprt form a partnership with them
    They are going to do the same thing in Canada.Already hiring
    This is a 45billion dollar company
    Owning more stations than clne has contracts on or owns or both put togher
    Owning more lng plants than clne has Dreams about
    Mar 30 12:46 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Shanghai Composite Continues To Slide On Europe, New Banking Curbs [View article]
    Its simple
    They created a bubble
    Local governments over spent and local banks over lent
    The pressure its putting on local companies is great
    They where borrowing at 5%
    Now borrowing at 8 to 20%
    And China has no system of checking the accuracy of company books.accounting in China is very bad if for no other reason than there is little punishment for false Chinas national companies that are owned mostly by the govenrment are in good shape as they have access to money
    But China has learned that government run companies do not always make good investments
    So whats happening
    Government mostly owned are doing well
    The government is letting nationals not owned by the government do well like Enn energy
    This is part of letting none government companies grow and they get capital on thw world market
    The local smaller companies books are not trusted and can not borrow from banks and when they try to borrow from none banks they have to pay a very high rate
    So tell China gets a trusted accounting system its not going to be good
    The start of that has to be punishment and for government to set an example in corruption
    China has said that it will
    We shale see
    Mar 30 12:13 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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