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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: What are wise investments if one thinks energy will get cheaper?
- Message-ID: <C0o7Ay.HEB@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:35:21 GMT
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- rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
-
- >The more I read the news in sci.physics.fusion, the more that I tend
- >to think that _somebody_(my own favorite horses in this race are some
- >of the small companies working on hot fusion) will come up with a
- >dramatically improved energy source sometime in the next 30 years.
-
- >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.
-
- >Thanks for your suggestions. Followups to misc.invest.
-
- Shorting is probably a bad strategy for a long time frame,
- and there are no long term puts.
-
- So, the strategy should be to invest in industries that
- will benefit from cheap energy.
-
- For example, you might invest in Japanese companies,
- since Japan must import a lot of oil from the Middle East.
- If Japan could have its own independent energy, that would
- make it much less vulnerable, increasing the economic
- viability and security of the country.
-
- But you might be right in the long term but the short-term
- could be very rocky. For example, suppose you implemented
- this strategy just before the Nikkei Index went from
- 32,000 to 16,000 ..
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-