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Big Oil Taking Small Steps Toward Big Renewable Energy Profits
3:00PM 7/19/2011
Energy, Exxon Mobil, Stock Picks, BP, Stocks in the News, Chevron, ConocoPhillips
The oil industry giants are embracing alternative technologies -- including biofuels, geothermal and solar. Right now, renewable sources provide only a tiny fraction of the profits they derive from oil and gas, but they'll have a real impact on the revenues of majors like BP, Exxon Mobil and Chevron in the not-so-distant future.
The Rand Corporation just came out with news saying severely cutting our dependence on oil, gas and coal is going to be harder than they intially reported. When Rand did the same study in 2006 and came out with more favorable results, it was because of an error in the computer model. Rand was...
No more bags: Whole Foods' latest push for green
9:00AM 4/05/2008
In the interests of total disclosure, I'm going to begin by admitting that I don't like shopping at Whole Foods. I find the stores almost obscenely expensive, irritatingly self-righteous, and badly laid out. Beyond that, they are generally filled with snotty, self-obsessed yuppies, who have a...
Sticking it to the Man: Make Exxon pay for renewable energy!
3:05PM 2/28/2008
When you start looking at economics, there's a tendency to become bound up in the endless series of twists and connections. Every little thing in the economy seems to be linked to every other little thing, which means that any change or attempt at improvement is almost guaranteed to have endless,...
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