New Natural Gas Discoveries are a Boon for the U.S. Energy Sector

After declining for 15 years, U.S. natural gas production is finally on the rise, thanks to new technological developments that make it possible to draw large amounts of gas from deposits previously thought to be unreachable. An increase in natural…

Eight Ways to Profit if OPEC Dumps the Dollar

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped a bombshell. And while it wasn’t a nuclear one, it might as well have been.

He stated on the record at a rare gathering of the heads of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member…

GE Strengthens Its Commitment to Alternative Energy with a $230 Million Solar Power Investment

General Electric Corp. (GE) is strengthening its commitment to clean energy with a $230 million (150 million euros) investment in Spain’s Fotowatio. The investment, made through GE’s Energy Financial Services unit, will amount to a 32% stake in the solar-energy firm.…

Fueled by Overseas Demand, U.S. Gasoline Prices Will Continue to Escalate

As oil whipsaws its way toward the unheard-of-level of $150 a barrel (crude closed at $134.60 yesterday, extending a multi-day skid, but traded above $147 as recently as Friday), Americans are finally responding to the pressure of higher gasoline prices…

Fixing the Energy Policy is the Number One Priority

Energy Game Day: It’s Time to Suit up and Play

With the price of oil doubling in the past year, there are more fingers being pointed than solutions being offered. Unfortunately, one of the biggest “culprits” garnering much of the blame…

The intellectually barren offshore drilling debate

At least one of Matt Simmons’s forecasts is not yet bearing fruit — his 2006 prediction that Peak Oil would come to dominate the 2008 campaign. For the debate over offshore drilling that’s erupted this week has shed absolutely no light…

Energy Q&A Part III: Investing in Uranium Stocks

Q: “I would very much appreciate your opinion and discussion of uranium mining stocks, as well as the future of uranium, in light of the oil price.”

I think that Denison Mines (DML: TSX) is a well-managed uranium mining company…

Special Energy Indicator Points Toward Higher Gas Prices – and a Potential 467% Profit Play

Here at Money Morning over the past six months, we’ve talked a great deal about oil and gasoline prices. We’ve offered our predictions about how high those prices were going, and have detailed a number of investment opportunities - chosen as…

Comment on the Greenspan Era

This from the 5min Forecast:

P.S. “Greenspan blamed the era of low interest rates over which he presided,” Addison writes by e-mail this morning, “on the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain.” We didn’t get…

Mineral Rights: Landowners are getting rich

With food and energy prices making climbs higher and higher nearly every day, somebody must be getting rich. But who? The gas stations claim they can barely get by. Farmers are protesting their own rising costs. And Exxon Mobil shareholders have little…