How to Keep your Gas Prices Low

Editors Note: Oil and gas are back in the headlines today. But we’ve heard very few good ways investors can take advantage of what – in all likelihood – will be a temporary price dip. Our colleagues at Money Morning, however, just uncovered three easy ways to lock in at today’s low gas prices. We’ve attached the full article below, from their Investment Director, Keith Fitz-Gerald.

Many of my neighbors here in Oregon are enjoying the big decline in gasoline prices, particularly those who still own SUVs, pickup trucks or any of the other fire-breathing, piston-clanking monstrosities I’ve seen on the road…

Energy Recession or Energy Depression

Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor, go the words to a sturdy old Anglican hymn.

Well, at $138+ per barrel of oil, I think we are about to find out how dear those prayers really are. This, plus the impending agricultural disaster due to low planting levels and other bad weather, will spell impoverishment for large swaths of the American middle class.

In the US, the poor and working poor are already marginalized. Now, with the ongoing melt-up in oil prices the middle class is being financially suffocated.

Recently wholesale gasoline prices went up 33-cents. No typo. That’s 33 cents,…

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 much for their margins of safety as for their profit potential.

This time we’re going to detail three energy stocks with the potential for double-digit – or even triple-digit – profit gains. Admittedly, these are longer-shot, speculative plays. But we used a special energy indicator to help ferret out these energy plays.

This indicator is known as the “crack spread.”

In case you’ve…

Pain at the Pump: It’s Time to Start Thinking About $7 a Gallon Gasoline

U.S. consumers barely had time to get used to the idea of $4 a gallon gasoline before prognosticators started talking about $5 a gallon fuel.

And unfortunately for the U.S. economy, the worst is yet to come.

The average price of gasoline in the United States broke $4 a gallon for the first time Sunday, following a double-digit surge in oil prices last week. And despite an economy that appears to be in an increasingly fragile state, experts are already debating the potential for gasoline to hit $5 this summer.

But here’s what most economists aren’t saying yet: U.S. motorists could easily be…

That Pain You Feel at the Pump is From a Dollar Crisis, Not an Oil Crisis

It’s unfortunate that the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ruling last week that U.S. currency is unfair to the blind, did not make the next logical step and declare it unfair to everyone who buys gasoline.

In their search for explanations as to why oil has surged past $130 per barrel, Washington, Wall Street and the financial media are as clueless as cavemen after a freak summer snowstorm. Despite the head scratching, the blame game is nevertheless in full force.

Speculators and big oil companies are being trotted out as scapegoats, and increased margin requirements and taxes on windfall profits…