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- From: jice@luth.chorus.fr (Jean-Christophe Hugly)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: What are wise investments if one thinks energy will get cheaper?
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 19:11:12 GMT
- References: <3959@key.COM>
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- In article <3959@key.COM>, rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
- %% What investment strategies can folks suggest that would benefit
- %% from events that dramatically decrease the costs of energy.
- %% My ideal investment would be somethink like selling electrity futures
- %% -deliverable in some long horizon-short. Now, to the best of my knowledge
- %% there are no "pure" energy futures Oil futures would come close, but
- %% oil is used for lots of other things besides just producing energy, though
- %% I'd expect oil and coal prices to both drop rather dramatically after
- %% some breakthrough in energy technology unless the non-energy uses of oil
- %% (i.e. making plastics and fabrics) expanded dramatically in response to
- %% cheaper energy prices.
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- Think about :
- - umbrellas
- - fridges
- - boats
- - grounds in the north not yet usable for agriculture
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- Because if the price of energy decreases dramatically, the earths temperature
- will rise.
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- J-C
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