Oil Kingpin Turns to Alternative Energy

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“You find an oilfield, it peaks and starts declining, and you’ve got to find another one to replace it. It can drive you crazy. With wind, there’s no decline curve.” — T. Boone Pickens by Jennifer Yousfi Baltimore — (TFN): T. Boone Pickens made his fortune in oil. But now the Dallas oilman and famed former corporate [...]

Profit from Qatar’s Natural Gas Fortune

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“We are not in the charity business. Whoever will give me the best price, I will follow him.” -- Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Oil Minister of Qatar by Andrew Mickey Baltimore – (TFN): Qatar is already taking advantage of this situation. And they’re making no qualms about their motivation: make [...]

Oil Prices: Is a high in sight?

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“We saw exactly the same thing with uranium last year, we saw it with wheat, corn and soybeans this year; we saw it with copper, lead, zinc and nickel, we’ve just seen it with rice.” — Dominic Frisby by Dominic Frisby, MoneyWeek Baltimore – (TFN): When a commodity or [...]

Investing in Oil: The Next Big Boom hits the Bakken Formation

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by Ian Cooper Baltimore — (TFN): If you thought T. Boone Pickens’ $125 oil prediction was a shock, CIBC World Markets’ chief economist Jeff Rubin is predicting $200 oil in the next five years. Oil production, says Rubin, will see minimum growth “over the next five years, edging up barely more than 1-million barrels a day [...]

Gas Prices: Is $4 per gallon the top?

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“What if I said that gasoline prices were headed for the $4 a gallon level, but once they got there, they’d head no higher? Accompanied by that reassuring bit of alleged ‘certainty,’ gasoline at $4 a gallon doesn’t sound quite so scary.” — William Patalon by William Patalon Baltimore – (TFN): How [...]

Best Oil Plays This Summer

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Baltimore — (TFN): Krista Das: U.S. crude oil hit a record high last week. The June contract began trading over $119.00 a barrel. According to the International Energy Agency, this is higher than the inflation-adjusted peak after the Iranian Revolution in 1980 when considering inflation. Joining me today is Blue Chip expert Todd Schoenberger who regularly [...]

Biofuels: The first casualties of the green fad

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“Biofuels have turned out to be a lose-lose-lose proposition. Once touted by the Greens and the biofuel industry as being able to reduce the demand for oil and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, biofuels have accomplished neither goal and have no prospect of accomplishing either in the foreseeable future.” —Steven Milloy Blogger’s Note: A year ago, [...]

Oil Prices Will Reach $225

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“The math is really simple here. We are burning through supplies at a rate that’s four times to five times faster than we’re discovering new reserves. Throw in a few [surprises]… perhaps a terrorist event… and add in the accelerating use of oil and gasoline in Third World countries, and we have [...]

Commodities Stocks: Big moves in energy

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"Lee seems to have the golden touch. Despite all the talking heads in the world predicting a top to commodity prices, he just keeps finding new ways to make money." — Steve McDonald by Steve McDonald, TodaysFinancialNews.com Baltimore — (TFN): The following was taken from the Under the Microscope video on TFN. Watch [...]

Alternative Energy: Ethanol is not the answer

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“Well, there we have it… energy crisis solved… right? Wrong. You see, for every good idea and every well-thought-out plan that may work on a small scale, there are always problems on a widespread level.” — Kevin Kerr by Kevin Kerr, Whiskey and Gunpowder Baltimore – (TFN): It seems that every [...]

Oil Prices: A power shift

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“If you were running an oil company, what would your number one priority be? Jacking up production, right? I mean, oil prices have just shot up from $50 to $120. And you know that whatever you produce, you’ll sell.” — Andrew Gordon by Andrew Gordon Baltimore — (TFN): If you were running an oil company, what would [...]

Top Energy Play

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“There are 1,000 coal-fired plants scheduled to be built within the next five years. That’s more than enough to keep the supplies tight and to sustain the high price of coal.“ — Andrew Gordon, Investor’s Daily Edge Baltimore – (TFN): The following was taken from this week’s Market Insights with Krista Das featuring Andrew Gordon, editor [...]

Investing in Oil: The Gusher Behind the “Montana Millionaires”

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- 5.3 times the proven reserves of Exxon, Gazprom, Chevron and ConocoPhillips combined… - Twice the size of Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar oil field… - The U.S. Department of Energy confirms, “This could increase crude oil in America by billions of barrels.” - The Billings Gazette says, “The oil field has made millionares out of ordinary Montanans…” About [...]

Commodities Trading: Coal power plants don’t die

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“There’s something very simple and compelling about the number 1,000. That’s how many coal-fired plants are scheduled to be built in the next five years, many of them in China and India.” — Andrew Gordon by Andrew Gordon Baltimore — (TFN): We love commodities here at Investor’s Daily Edge. My colleague Rusty McDougal lives and breathes [...]

Oil Prices: Rebels, gunfire in the Gulf and labor strikes

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“The Forties Pipeline System, a major transportation network that pumps about 600,00 barrels per day (bpd) from more than 50 fields situated throughout the region, was forced to close due to a labor strike at a key Scottish refinery.” — Jason Simpkins by Jason Simpkins Baltimore – (TFN): An outpouring of political [...]

Oil Prices: Saudi Arabia’s digging deep

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“Saudi Arabia has a problem. And it’s the same one that every oil-producing nation will face someday: Its oilwells are drying up.” — Jason Simpkins by Jason Simpkins Baltimore – (TFN): The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading petroleum exporter. Officially, it has reserves of about 260 billion barrels of [...]

Alternative Energy Investing: Going green with profits

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“It’s easy to see why there’s such a big opportunity brewing in alternative forms of energy. The U.S. and many other countries around the world are (as my grandfather would say), ‘backing the truck up’ and pouring money into this sector right now. There’s a tremendous opportunity [...]

U.S. Attorney General: “Mob threat to energy markets”

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Blogger’s Note: It’s not only hedge funds and pension funds who have discovered resources and energy as prime vehicles to create profit. Organized crime, too, appears to be tapping into this mother of all money-laundering machines. CNN featured this article on the subject matter. Could this be the opening shot of an orchestrated push by [...]

Oil Prices: Profit from the new highs

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“If we’re only considering economic factors, the steep crude prices now being predicted would be unlikely to stick for any protracted period.” — Martin Hutchinson by Martin Hutchinson Baltimore – (TFN): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a few months ago that if the United States invades Iran, we could expect to [...]

Coal Prices: As goes coal, so goes the nation

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“One of the most extensive and valuable mineral resources in the U.S. is called the Pittsburgh Coal Seam. The Pittsburgh Coal Seam shows up in outcrops all over town, if you know where to look and what you’re seeing. But there’s a lot more to this hunk of rock.” [...]



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