Profiting From Oil – Peak or Not

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

It seems like the only times that the financial media talks about oil is when they mention either demand destruction in the United States or an inventory buildup of fuel, etc. in the United States.

The financial media is doing a real disservice to millions of investors in two ways.

The first is by ignoring the rest of the globe when it comes to demand for oil. For example, China imported a record amount of oil in July – 4.6 million barrels a day, up 42% from last July.

This record monthly figure is well above the previous peak of 4.1 million barrels of oil a day set in March 2008, when the financial media said that China was simply stockpiling oil ahead of the Olympics.

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Is General Motors the Buy of the Decade? PHEVs Part Two…

by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist

Who would have thought an article on the future of the automobile would have roused so many skeptics and naysayers from their winter hibernation? Certainly not me.

But the one I wrote a few weeks ago on Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) has kept our Customer Service department working overtime… fielding the firestorm of responses, both positive and negative.

Clearly Americans feel this is a hot topic and, being the glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to move from the frying pan into the fire and revisit it.In my first article, I dismissed an investment in General Motors - or any other car company for that matter - as financial suicide. However, I’m going to eat a little crow for breakfast.

The Death of the Combustion Engine

Let’s

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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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