The Gas Prices Rollercoaster: Why Energy & Infrastructure Are Inextricably Combined

by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist, Investment U Friday, January 16, 2008: Issue #917

President-elect Obama takes office in less than a week’s time. While many will be watching closely to see how he handles the ongoing financial crisis, I’ll be equally interested to see how he handles a far more ominous one: our ongoing energy and infrastructure crisis.

Regular readers know I believe energy and infrastructure are inextricably combined. We need cheap energy to fuel sustained economic growth. And we need infrastructure in place to move and dispense the energy from its source to its destination. Today I’m going to give you a perfect example of how the two are intertwined, and how one can play off the other to create a positive benefit for all.

In the face of gas prices that are less than half of what they were only a

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There is more than one way to make a profit on a fast moving segment of the market, if you are nimble enough. In some markets, everything is a matter of paper and delegation regardless of the product. Yes, the product still needs to make it to market, but there is always a contract behind that as well. All the company needs to do is make sure that the right paper is in the right place and hands at the right time. Make sure all the signatures are correct for your deal and a nice check can easily end-up in a company’s pocket.

Coastal Caribbean Oil & Minerals Inc. Ltd., a development stage oil and gas lease administrator, controls large sections of oil and gas leases in Montana and North Dakota. Through a series of ventures and individually struck deals, the company effectively administers well over 120,000 acres of oil and

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Getting into the oil and gas game is no small feat as many race to claim their share of the energy prize. Most companies have already staked their claim and are working to get oil out of the ground. Others are working to find wells and leases that have been left for dead. It may not be as easy as it was years ago, but for those companies that can stick at it, there’s plenty of profit left to be had.

Sun Cal Energy Inc., an exploration stage oil and gas company, works to find and extract oil and gas from new and existing oil and gas deposits. The company continues in its exploration stage with partial and 100% interests in several leases. In its own right, and through its subsidiary Sun Cal Energy Canada, Inc., the company controls several thousand acres of recognized oil and gas properties while maintaining over

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