Yet another reason why the government is currently failing consumers with its Strategic Petroleum Reserve policy, and why investors in green stocks should tread carefully at current prices. This Forbe’s article outlines how Opec’s president has made the argument that speculators are driving the current high prices for oil. And in all fairness he has [...]

Looks like solar power, oil, alternative energy and other green investors should expect continuing volitility in shares as congress (well… Republicans really) failed to renew two bills that would have impacted pretty much everything in the sector. First, they shot down a bill that would have imposed a windfall profit tax on Oil Companies and [...]

People talk a lot about alternative fuels being more viable with oil at such high prices. It also, however, makes other, more exotic, fossil fuel extraction techniques viable.  This piece in the UK’s Independent outlines how oil reserves are understated because certain known fields are too expensive to extract at this time - and therefore are excluded from oil reserve [...]

A new Center for American Progress (CAP) report finds that in a study of 12 states, there are people that work in jobs that could be “green jobs”.  And collectively, accross the country this is over 14MM people, or nearly 10% of the U.S. work force.  Wow… that’s impressive…. 10% of Americans work in jobs that could be [...]

This post over at The Big Picture got me thinking more about how far we are away from a rational market for green investment - public or private.  The problem - opacity - or the opposite of transparency for those of you in a negative mood.  Sure there are lots of alternative energy technologies that [...]