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Incredimail's Google Dependency; Will EZ Chip Make Life Difficult for Investors?

Yes, EZCH is small and there is risk, but there in lies the greater potential reward. The party most familiar with EZCHP was the former LanOptics (now defunct symbol LNOP). LanOptics was the largest share holder and it recently bought all of the shares of EZCH and changed the name of the company accordingly, since EZCH is essentially the companies only operating business to my knowledge. I have to believe that this move was based on very sound inside information regarding the EZCH's prospects.

I have owned EZCH for a while now, riding the ups and downs, and have kept my sights on the mid-term and long-term. I had hoped the company would be bought out by one of its larger customers, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. I expect EZHP shares to rise just before the official end of the recession, as the market looks forward to more capital spending on telecom infrastructure.

Fast Money Recap - 6 Companies That Make Real Things (3/6/09)

Obama's anti-domestic oil and gas tax policies will hurt companies like CHK, who, as you point out, make real things. Recent history has confirmed that the president is more interested in givig huge tax breaks to his Hollywood billionaire supporters, than to companies that make real commodities that are the foundation of our economy. Bottom line: You can expect four more years of increasing dependence on foriegn enery sources, including LNG. However, CHK and others are to blame for much of their recent problems, having drilled far beyond any realistic dedmand requirements.

The Gas Price Roller-Coaster: It’s Not an Amusement Park Ride

Let me say that I work for a gas and electric utility and I drove a dual fuel vehicle for several years. It ran on gasoline or natural gas at the flip of a switch. It worked fine.

Unfortunately, the author assumes that natural gas producers, i.e. exploration and production companies, are going to take on the considerable risk needed to produce the natural gas needed to meet these goals on the cheap! Natural gas is way too cheap in the USA. Producers need the option to tap foriegn markets by exporting LNG and bring the price of natural gas in line with world wide prices. This is the only way natural gas will help our trade deficit. The USA DOES NOT BURN OIL TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY!!!! Nit wits like BO like to trumpet this BS, and the public believes him...Natural gas is way too cheap for E&P companies to justify busting hump to increase production.

There is a major flaw in this article as well as in the general populations knowlegde. The USA does not depend on foreign oil to generate electricity. The media and Obama seem to be willing to perpetuate this misperception.