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Congress & Alternative Energy: Investment Ideas

FYI

EPA recently rejected a petition to waive 50% of the requirement to purchase and blend corn ethanol for the period spanning September 2008 through August 2009.

The EPA's reaffirmation of this standard sends a strong signal to the investment community: our government is serious about adhering to its commitment to enhance our nation's energy security

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 strengthened the RFS by increasing the mandated amount of renewable fuels used annually in the United States to 36 billion gallons by 2022, of which at least 16 billion must be cellulosic ethanol, which is derived from non-food feedstocks such as agricultural residues, canes, wood and grasses. This federal commitment to advanced biofuels provides a stable and predictable market framework for companies like Verenium (VRNM), which just began start-up and commissioning one of the nation's first demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities.

Nobody Cares How the Energy Crisis Gets Solved

Perhaps your contentiously and provacatively entitled article will be a proxy to determine indeed how many people care. I myself believe that a great many people do care how it gets solved and moreover that there are people, companies, cartels, collusions, conspiracies at work right now discussing and fighting out the solution.

Much is at stake. A whole new lifestyle, a whole new way of life or more of the same...we shall see

Profiting from the Pickens Plan: FAN, Clean Fuels, Fuel Systems

Here are a few more which will benefit from alternative energy:

SATC: Solar inverters, no matter what kind of solar panels are made, there going to need inverters and SATC is in on the big projects...still a whisper play

BCON: A cleaner solution to grid back up and stability; again still a whisper play

VRNM: biomass fuel, not from corn or sugar but by products that are normal trashed. Their technology is already being used overseas. Again, a whisper play

So legitimate question to ask, if these are really such great ideas why are these stocks wallowing in the low digits? Answer is we are in a transition phase from old to new technology and it is not clear to many that this transition is going to happen. Similar past transitions in recent memory was the transition from the mainframe to the PC.

So yes, there is no amount of speculation involved here. Do your own research. I would be interested to hear in others ideas on these or other cos.