Stock Picks for Obama’s New Energy Policy

President Obama made a speech where he announced a goal of cutting oil imports by a third over the next decade. He included a pledge to have federal agencies buy only alt-fuel vehicles by 2015 and a promise to expand U.S. oil exploration and production.

Transitioning half the cars and trucks in the U.S. to natural gas transportation over the next 5 to 10 years could reduce foreign oil imports by 5 million barrels every day.

So natural gas is an obvious play. Renewable/alternative fuels are other good choices.

Here are my four best picks that could make investors a bundle from  the President’s new policy:

Pick #1—
Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE)

The company owns and/or supplies more than 200 natural gas fueling stations across the U.S. and Canada. It serves over 320 fleet customers operating over 20,000 natural gas vehicles. The customers can use Clean Energy’s fuel stations to tank up their vehicles with compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Clean Energy Fuels also provides natural gas vehicle systems and conversions for taxis, limousines, vans, pick-up trucks, and shuttle buses through its BAF subsidiary in Texas. Clean Energy helps customers buy and finance natural gas vehicles and obtain government incentives.

The company buys CNG from local utilities and produces LNG at its two plants (in California and Texas) with a combined capacity of 260,000 gallons per day.

Clean Energy owns and operates an LNG liquefaction plant near Houston, Texas, which it calls the Pickens Plant, capable of producing up to 35 million gallons of LNG per year.

And investors who buy CLNE won’t be alone …

Founder and billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens owns a sizeable chunk of Clean Energy.

Pick #2—
Westport Innovations (WPRT)

This company makes natural gas engines for forklifts, oilfield services engines, trucks and buses and automobiles. Its 50-50 joint venture Cummins Westport project builds natural gas vehicle engines for trucks and buses that could refill at the clean energy stations built by Clean Energy.

It made revenues of $154 million in the last year and isn’t close to profitability yet. But a concerted push toward natural-gas powered vehicles could change that.

WPRT is at the top of its 52-week range. So I’d wait for a pullback.

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Pick #3—
Talisman Energy (TLM)

Talisman had 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves last year. It has material positions in three world-class, liquids-heavy shale plays in North America: The Marcellus shale (Pennsylvania), Montney shale (British Columbia) and Utica shale (Quebec). It is also expanding its Eagle Ford shale properties, in a 50-50 joint venture with Statoil.

The company also signed two $1.05 billion deals with Sasol of South Africa. This partnership is sketching out plans for a new multibillion-dollar facility near Edmonton that could process as much as a billion cubic feet of natural gas a day into 96,000 barrels of refined products through the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Fischer-Tropsch works by using heat and chemical catalysts to break down a substance like natural gas into its molecular basics and then rebuild those molecules into something else — such as diesel.

Why do that?

A barrel of oil contains roughly six times the energy content of a thousand cubic feet of gas. Since 6 thousand cubic feet of gas is worth about $24 (U.S.), and one barrel of oil is worth about $100, there is a tremendous profit margin if you can convert one to the other cost-effectively.

Pick #4—
PowerShares Wilderhill
Clean Energy Fund (PBW)

This is one of the largest alternative energy ETFs with over $500 million in assets. Large holdings include GT Solar, Yingli Green Energy, SunPower Corp., Trina Solar and more.

Sean Brodrick is a natural resources expert and editor of Crisis Profit Hunter, a monthly newsletter with a primary mission to help you profit from crisis situations and other dynamic forces affecting the global economy. Commodities and dividend-paying stocks are central to his approach, and he also delivers practical advice for uncertain economic times. For more information on Crisis Profit Hunter, click here.

Sean is also the editor of Red-Hot Global Resources, a weekly newsletter that aims to help you rack up profits with commodity-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and natural resource-sensitive stocks that operate around the world. For more information on Red-Hot Global Resources, click here.

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Stock Picks for Obama’s New Energy Policy

President Obama made a speech where he announced a goal of cutting oil imports by a third over the next decade. He included a pledge to have federal agencies buy only alt-fuel vehicles by 2015 and a promise to expand U.S. oil exploration and production.

Transitioning half the cars and trucks in the U.S. to natural gas transportation over the next 5 to 10 years could reduce foreign oil imports by 5 million barrels every day.

So natural gas is an obvious play. Renewable/alternative fuels are other good choices.

Here are my four best picks that could make investors a bundle from  the President’s new policy:

Pick #1—
Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE)

The company owns and/or supplies more than 200 natural gas fueling stations across the U.S. and Canada. It serves over 320 fleet customers operating over 20,000 natural gas vehicles. The customers can use Clean Energy’s fuel stations to tank up their vehicles with compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Clean Energy Fuels also provides natural gas vehicle systems and conversions for taxis, limousines, vans, pick-up trucks, and shuttle buses through its BAF subsidiary in Texas. Clean Energy helps customers buy and finance natural gas vehicles and obtain government incentives.

The company buys CNG from local utilities and produces LNG at its two plants (in California and Texas) with a combined capacity of 260,000 gallons per day.

Clean Energy owns and operates an LNG liquefaction plant near Houston, Texas, which it calls the Pickens Plant, capable of producing up to 35 million gallons of LNG per year.

And investors who buy CLNE won’t be alone …

Founder and billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens owns a sizeable chunk of Clean Energy.

Pick #2—
Westport Innovations (WPRT)

This company makes natural gas engines for forklifts, oilfield services engines, trucks and buses and automobiles. Its 50-50 joint venture Cummins Westport project builds natural gas vehicle engines for trucks and buses that could refill at the clean energy stations built by Clean Energy.

It made revenues of $154 million in the last year and isn’t close to profitability yet. But a concerted push toward natural-gas powered vehicles could change that.

WPRT is at the top of its 52-week range. So I’d wait for a pullback.

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Pick #3—
Talisman Energy (TLM)

Talisman had 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves last year. It has material positions in three world-class, liquids-heavy shale plays in North America: The Marcellus shale (Pennsylvania), Montney shale (British Columbia) and Utica shale (Quebec). It is also expanding its Eagle Ford shale properties, in a 50-50 joint venture with Statoil.

The company also signed two $1.05 billion deals with Sasol of South Africa. This partnership is sketching out plans for a new multibillion-dollar facility near Edmonton that could process as much as a billion cubic feet of natural gas a day into 96,000 barrels of refined products through the Fischer-Tropsch process.

Fischer-Tropsch works by using heat and chemical catalysts to break down a substance like natural gas into its molecular basics and then rebuild those molecules into something else — such as diesel.

Why do that?

A barrel of oil contains roughly six times the energy content of a thousand cubic feet of gas. Since 6 thousand cubic feet of gas is worth about $24 (U.S.), and one barrel of oil is worth about $100, there is a tremendous profit margin if you can convert one to the other cost-effectively.

Pick #4—
PowerShares Wilderhill
Clean Energy Fund (PBW)

This is one of the largest alternative energy ETFs with over $500 million in assets. Large holdings include GT Solar, Yingli Green Energy, SunPower Corp., Trina Solar and more.

Sean Brodrick is a natural resources expert and editor of Crisis Profit Hunter, a monthly newsletter with a primary mission to help you profit from crisis situations and other dynamic forces affecting the global economy. Commodities and dividend-paying stocks are central to his approach, and he also delivers practical advice for uncertain economic times. For more information on Crisis Profit Hunter, click here.

Sean is also the editor of Red-Hot Global Resources, a weekly newsletter that aims to help you rack up profits with commodity-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and natural resource-sensitive stocks that operate around the world. For more information on Red-Hot Global Resources, click here.

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Obama’s Brazil visit: Violent welcome of rubber bullets, tear gas and riots against US

Not a warm welcome: The Obamas arrive in Brasilia today for a visit to promote trade links.

Barack Obama’s visit to Brazil had a very unpromising start after police had to quell riots against the U.S. in Rio de Janeiro with rubber bullets and tear gas.

The U.S. President landed in the capital of Brasilia with his wife and daughters, visiting the country on a mission to re-assert trade links with Latin America.

But the day before he landed Brazilian military police fired on 300 demonstrators who had gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in Rio.

Police cracked down on the crowd after protesters hurled a Molotov cocktail at the consulate door, the O Globo newspaper reported on its website.

‘I was in the centre of the protest when people began to run and I heard shots,’ said AFP photographer Vanderlei Almeida.

‘I had to get out of there because it was hard to breathe.’

The photographer said he was struck by two rubber bullets in the leg and the stomach.

Mr Obama’s visit to the region’s economic powerhouse is the centrepiece of his effort to re-engage with neighbours no longer content with being relegated to Washington’s ‘backyard’ and where the United States faces rising competition from China.

But after the riots he was forced to cancel an outdoor speech that he was set to give in a Rio square.

After Air Force One touched down at 7.31am local time, the president, his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha headed to their hotel before the president held morning talks with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

As Brazilian troops dressed in ceremonial garb formed an honor guard, Obama walked up the futuristic ramp of the Palácio do Planalto, the presidential office building, where Rousseff greeted him with a hearty handshake.

While more regional themes will be touched on when the president visits other South American nations, the focus in Brazil – the seventh largest economy in the world – was on forging a political and economic relationship for the future.

For posterity: Photographers get ready to capture the moment as protestors unveil a U.S. flag that reads 'Obama go home' in Brasilia last night.

Mr Obama said: ‘Put simply, the United States doesn’t simply recognise Brazil’s rise, we support it enthusiastically. I believe we’ve laid the foundation for greater cooperation between the United States and Brazil for decades to come.’

While President Rousseff agreed, she said any true alliance between the two countries would have to be ‘amongst equals’.

Mr Obama decided to stick with his five-day itinerary, which will also take him to Chile and El Salvador and is pitched as a push for U.S. exports and jobs, despite an array of international troubles that may overshadow his travels.

‘I want to open more markets around the world so that American companies can do more business and hire more of our people,’ Mr Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday.

The President will seek to reinforce hemispheric ties that have become frayed at the edges but his attention is sure to be divided.

Senior aides will be with him at every stop to help him stay on top of events as the United States works with allies against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and charts a response to Japan’s nuclear crisis.

Republican critics have accused the President of a failure to lead amid the global turmoil.

The White House has justified Mr Obama’s trip in large part for its potential dividends of boosting U.S. exports to help create American jobs, considered crucial to his 2012 re-election chances.

Latin America wants the respect it feels it deserves from Washington for its increasingly vibrant economic development, including growth outstripping the sluggish U.S. recovery.

Mr Obama had a packed schedule in Brasilia. After mending fences with Mrs Rousseff, he then addressed business leaders from both countries.

In between everything he made a brief statement as U.S. forces began an organised attack on Libya.

U.S. officials have made clear Mr Obama also wants to take advantage of a chance to repair diplomatic ties since Mrs Rousseff took office in January. Tensions rose under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over, among other things, Brazil’s overtures to Iran.

Mrs Rousseff, a pragmatic leftist, has veered back toward Washington and away from anti-U.S. leaders like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez but she will likely insist on concrete results.

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OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES = FAIL

Posted: March 19, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: ISLAMOBAMA | 12 Comments »

And we’re not even talking about the Israel-Palestine mess here.

WND –Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia are beginningto fray at the edges as the Sunni Saudi kingdom dispatched

1,800 troops to next-door Bahrain in an attempt to quell revolt against that nation’s Sunni-ruled regime, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The U.S. had urged Saudi Arabia not to do that.

That, analysts say, is just a tip of the iceberg of decisions that are being made that reveal the extent to which U.S. advice now is ignored, or even repudiated, across the Middle East, and they say a part of that is because of President Barack Obama’s perceived abandonment of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally.

Saudi Arabia and Jordan both were in alliance with Mubarak in their efforts to contain Iran, which is dominated by Shi’aIslam.

But the abandonment of Mubarak – the U.S. called for his departure and hailed the opposition forces providing a front for the radical Muslim Brotherhood – has caused the Saudis to believe they have to act on their own without having to consult any longer with the U.S., analysts say.

The basis for a more unilateral Saudi approach stems from an early Saudi appeal to the U.S. to support Mubarak inthe face ofincreasing demonstrations at the time in Egypt, even if the government had decided to use troops against the demonstrators.

For years, the U.S. has supported the autocratic rule of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which itself is beginning to face increased demonstrations for change and greater reform within the kingdom. While the U.S. worked behind the scenes for a graceful Mubarak exit, demonstrators remain concerned that the U.S. backs the interim military regime which has promised the reforms the demonstrators seek.

Now, the U.S. has not condemned Saudi Arabia’s introduction of troops into Bahrain or, for that matter, the sending of additional troops by other Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates at the request of the Bahraini regime of King Hamad ibn Isa Al-Khalifa. Nor has Washington criticized the regime for making the troop requests.

The U.S. strategy is to help open up the Bahraini political system without the government being overthrown, analysts say. However, the arrival of the Saudi troops has indicated more of a heavy-handed approach in stopping any protests, with military force if necessary.

Regional analysts are suggesting that Washington’s continued backing of autocratic regimes in the Middle East may indicate a loss of clout in itsforeign policy while condoning “a level of force” inthe face of democratic demonstrators.
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