Top 5 Picks

Top 5 Picks

Everyone has a top ten list so we are going to have one each day too! These are our top 5 stock picks with volume exceeding 1 million.

• Canadian Solar (CSIQ)
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
• Wyeth (WYE)
• Monsanto (MON)
• Sociedad Quimica Chile (SQM)

These are stocks we like as a buy. Watch the technicals closely as they may turn quickly.

Heavenly Bodies Finally Get Approval!

SIRI

Sirius

XM and Sirius (SIRI) satellite radio FINALLY got approval today from the FCC after a long, long 16 month review.
Now we'll see how long it takes to do the actual deal. Hopefully its very soon so that we can see a huge pop! in the stock price. As of right now the stock is at $2.66 with over 53,650,000 shares volume!

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin confirmed published reports that he would support the transaction, with the companies agreeing to a series of conditions.

Those conditions include a pledge to make 24 radio channels available for noncommercial and minority programming, according to FCC sources. In addition, the companies would agree to cap prices, provide interoperable radios and offer programming on an "a la carte" basis.

"I am recommending that with the voluntary commitments they've offered, on balance, this transaction would be in the public interest," Martin said in a statement.

Martin's proposal to approve the deal could be circulated among the other commissioners as soon as this week, the FCC sources said. As the number of cars with built-in satellite radio has increased, both services are still adding subscribers, who pay about $13 a month for more than 100 channels of music, news and talk programming. XM ended the first quarter with about 9.3 million subscribers, vs. 8.6 million for Sirius.

Last year one of the companies announced subscribers would be able to choose 50 channels for $6.99 -- a 46 % decrease from the current standard subscription rate of $12.95. Customers could then add more channels for a minimum of 25 cents each.

Happy Fathers Day!

You may have noticed if you ever click on the first link near the top of my recent entries here that it directs you to another site of mine. I prefer writing my blog over there but try to maintain it here for those of my readers who are primarily only Blogger.com folks.

Fathers Day

For our readers (Fathers and family members) today on Father's Day we are giving you a one day advance access to the two weeks FREE at MarketClub.

MarketClub is a tool that we use in our trading that utilizes what they call trade triangles to help you find enter and exit points that weigh heavily in your favor bringing you the most profits for your trades.

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Happy Father's Day!

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These 3 Markets Will Change Everything

June 13

In preparation for the 2 week FREE trial at MarketClub that we told you about recently, Adam produced the video below to help prepare members for what he, and MarketClub, believes will be the direction of three very important markets: US Dollar, Gold, and Crude Oil

We are sharing this with our readers because we know that MarketClub has helped us normal traders/investors and that it can help you too! Check this out and see how simple using MarketClub makes it for you and how these support videos are a valuable training and reinforcement on the use of an already simple service, plus gives you additional insight for making more money in the market. You will get a personal email with a special page embedded video. They wish to know how many people and where in the world you are viewing this video from; and its a promotion now to our Future1investor readers to this wonderful service which we use!

Every once in a while there comes a time in the market when you
get to see some amazing trading opportunities.

I believe this could be one of those times.

In this special private video I analyze in detail the
upcoming major moves in three major markets. This just
maybe the most important video I have ever made on these
three markets and I want you to see it.

Adam Hewison

President, INO.com

Capital Gains & Windfall Taxes

Today, the subject of oil company windfall taxes was defeated by the Republican party. We hope that it will come up again and be passed though we suspect that they will go easy. Of course I'm all for increasing taxes on the huge profits that oil companies are making. Why not? Its windfall profits that we are talking about.

Then, if Obama gets the vote for President of the United States, he proposes to fix the capital gains tax at 28%. Of course this will hurt us as independent traders but I think it is something that we need. We've been hurt by lower taxes as seen with the numerous budget cuts to worthy programs, continued cuts on military health benefits for our soldiers and their families. Of course the crazy war that we've been in on the false face of weapons of mass destruction has not done a bit of good for us as a country either.

The United States of America operates on taxes, gives us our many advantages as U.S. Citizens, and some day will hopefully once again use our tax base to fund alternative low/no damage power technologies. It was once used with our space program (the space race). Instead of hurting others globally, we the citizens, our state and federal representatives, should be using OUR tax money to help the world advance technologies that help the entire planet and everyone living on it.

There is no reason why we can't still make profits from our innovations, improvements, and ecologically safe products while helping even the poorest of the poor in this and in every country!

Apple Stock & Free MarketClub For You!

Yesterday we reiterated the announcement of Apple's new 3G iPhone. Yet the stock dropped $4 bucks! Whats up with that? Today we have more details on the announcement below and then we'll have a video from MarketClub that talks about the stock price.

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First the details on Apple's new iPhone:

By JORDAN ROBERTSON
AP Technology Writer

(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) The iPhone will soon be $200 cheaper _ and come with satellite navigation, faster Internet access and other new features _ but higher monthly service charges are likely to erase most of the savings.

Apple Inc. revealed Monday that it has scrapped its pricing plan for the iPhone as it unveiled a model that works over faster wireless networks, addressing key criticisms about the device that have hurt the company’s foray into the cell phone industry.

An 8-gigabyte version with the new features will go for $199 when it goes on sale July 11, and a 16 gigabyte model will cost $299, the Cupertino-based company said.

Current iPhone owners who buy a new model and sign up for a new AT&T contract won’t have to pay any penalties to get out of their current contract, AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said. And anyone who bought an iPhone in an AT&T store after May 26 can return it before Aug. 1 for full credit against a new one _ less a 10 percent restocking fee.

Apple plans to make up the difference in sales revenue with volume _ and with subsidies wireless carriers will now pay for the right to carry the gadget.

In changing the pricing arrangements, Apple is pulling out of revenue-sharing arrangements with some wireless carriers, a move that frees the carriers to charge higher prices for the service.

Apple shares fell $4.03, or 2.2 percent, to close Monday at $181.61 on the news, a sign that some investors were hoping for more and others were taking their profits after a four-month run-up in Apple’s stock price, which leaped from $120 in March.

The new iPhones, initially to be introduced in 22 countries, are designed to work over so-called 3G, or third-generation, wireless networks and have global-positioning technology built in.

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They will also support Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange software, an addition that puts the iPhone in more direct competition with Research in Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry and Palm Inc.’s Treo smart phones and is intended to appeal to the business market.

Analysts have said Apple needed to slash the iPhone’s price and make it usable on faster networks to hit the company’s target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Apple said the 3G iPhones download data twice as fast as the older ones.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Apple has sold 6 million iPhones since the first model launched nearly a year ago and 700,000 since March. That points to a steady slowdown in sales starting in the fourth quarter last year as customers waited for a 3G version.

Jobs showed off the new models of the iPhone and about a dozen new applications for the device at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

New applications range from video games that use the iPhone’s motion-sensing technology to guide characters to study tools for medical students and a program that allows users to find nearby cell-phone-carrying friends on a map.

One program brings real-time video highlights and game stats from MLB.com; another creates an Associated Press news feed based on the user’s location and lets users submit news tips to the AP.

Apple also announced a new Web-based service called “MobileMe,” which the company describes as “Exchange _ for the rest of us,” a consumer-friendly way for people to link their iPhones to their home and work computers so updates entered into one device automatically appear in the others.

MobileMe will cost $99 per year and come with 20 gigabytes of online storage.

AT&T Inc., the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone, said service for it will start at $39.99 per month, plus $30 for unlimited data. That works out to a $10 increase from the cheapest plan for the first-generation iPhone; over the course of a two-year contract, that increase wipes out the savings from the price cut Apple announced Monday.

AT&T’s pricing covers only U.S. residents. While iPhone prices will drop outside the U.S. too, it was not clear whether other carriers would raise monthly fees to compensate.

AT&T also warned that it will take an earnings hit due to the pricing because new subsidies it agreed to pay will produce the iPhone price cut _ not a reduction from Apple.

Apple said in a regulatory filing that under most of its new carrier agreements, it will not receive a share of subscribers’ monthly service fees as it has under contracts for the first-generation iPhone.

Jobs said Apple waited to improve the iPhone for use on the faster network because the chips available when the iPhone first came out sapped too much battery life and were too bulky to fit the iPhone’s slim design.

The addition of global-positioning technology improves the iPhone’s accuracy in locating users. Current versions use a combination of cell-phone towers and Wi-Fi locations to help users figure out where they are.

The 1.73 million iPhones Apple sold in the first three month this year gave it a 5.3 percent share of the worldwide smart-phone market, according to research firm Gartner. Apple has been adding overseas markets gradually with carrier deals.

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Battle of the Titans

The new Apple 3G iPhone was announced today just a month after RIMM announced the 3G Blackberry 9000. Last week Google said that they would have phones running their new Android software out sometime this year but without committing to an exact date.

Titans

While the Blackberry has been the clear winner for quite some time in the corporate world, the iPhone holds a lot of promise since Apple is known to constantly innovate and please its customers. That however should be interesting. Interesting to see just how far the newest iPhone has come.

On the other hand, the Google Phone for a lack of a better name at this point, also holds tremendous promise due solely to the powerhouse which is Google. Googlites are not known for doing anything just half ass. That is the brains working at Google are huge crowd pleasers when it comes to applications on the web. Google is thought of as the great leveler. Meaning that they always go one further for the people!

And as this is being written, I'm awaiting yet another phone altogether, hardly mentioned around these parts. Its the Helio service by Samsung phones. I have the model called the Fin, the worlds thinnest clam-shell phone with internet, GPS, texting, emails, rss feeds, camera, games, videos, and music. The only thing that the Fin is not good at is web surfing. Another thing its not good at is swimming. I took mine swimming the other day and now I find myself having to order another Helio until my contract is up. So I chose the Helio Ocean. The Ocean promises a better web experience over the other Helio phones and with its Qwerty keyboard, better texting and email response functionality. The reason I've chosen the Helio service over any other is the one price gets all. I pay $99 for all services all the time rather than a la carte or minutes only but extra for data. Helio says they are a virtual phone company but gives you everything easily. So for now, I'm a Helio subscriber.

The kicker comes in the price tags. Helio Ocean is about $300, Blackberry is around $350-500, but the new iPhone is but $199. It is for this reason that I hope to find that when my Helio contract is up, that the iPhone will have gone a few more improvements and that there will be tons of great apps available. On the other hand, the Google Phones should be no less a functional powerhouse but that remains to be seen.

RIMM has been a good trade for most and Apple too.

A Head Scratching Event

June 3rd (originally written here)

This morning we are scratching our heads over some number which was released yesterday.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to $130 million over three years, subject to Congressional appropriations, to advance the development and use of fuel cells for automotive, stationary, and portable power applications.

The head scratching comes into play when we take the other side and say: the government is perhaps doing the right thing to get us away from our addiction to oil. Away from the devastating effect that has now been proven to destroy our environment. A step towards the promise of a far cleaner future.

But then we see the number which is $130 million dollars of your tax paying money, over 3 years.
Wait just a sec... didn't the government spend some $1BILLION dollars beginning sometime near the President Carter administration to develop Hybrid Technologies? As seen from another fairer perspective, $130 million X 3 which is the nine years for the $1 billion formerly used for hybrid technologies... comes out to a small $390 in today's money. Hmmm...390 million in today's money vs. 1 BILLION dollars starting in the Jimmy Carter era.

Perhaps even with the flawed idea of fuel cell technologies, perhaps this is just a diversion making it look like our leadership is doing the right thing when in fact it may be quite the opposite.

This can be seen as a way to prolong the use of oil and combustion engine production until we can show as we have here that we already have proof that this isn't the best way to go in reducing our addiction to oil. That perhaps then, we throw some paltry amount of money at another idea that doesn't quite fit the Eco bill and even further prolong our addiction. A kind of bait and switch tactic if you will.

What was the effect of the U.S.A. producing a clean electric car all those years ago?
It scared Toyota and Honda to produce a good electric car on their own w/o anyone's help.
They only took it off the roads when our government was willing to sue it's own State of California to cause the electric car to disappear off the roads. Why? Because there was not enough profit in it for the car manufacturers and most especially for the big oil companies. Some of you may argue that BP and perhaps other oil companies now have an alternative energy division. So why aren't they using these windfall profits to boldly and swiftly change from oil addiction to a healthy future for all? Because it isn't as profitable maybe?

Hmmm

Shows you how an effective Leader and administration can be changed away from doing what is absolutely right for the consumer, for our health, for the environment, and for our entire human population and the planet.

We are in a sad state of capitalism when leaders have to create laws to help capitalists get away with criminal and some would say immoral acts. Acts which hurt the entire planet and put billions of people at great risk just for a few more years of windfall profits.

This is what has prompted the head scratching event today.

Also, did you know that the White House once had solar panels on the roof? It did during the time of Jimmy Carter but they were removed when Ronald Reagan and his Vice President took office.

More head scratching.....

If you can possibly take one more minute; watch the first minute of this video before it disappears.

If You Say It Enough They Will Believe You

June 2nd (originally written here)

Or some semblance of those words. This comes supposedly from one of our current leaders as I'm told. Well luckily every piece of actual evidence can not be destroyed. I found this at Reuters and Planet Ark. I had trouble highlighting to show the differences between the pros and cons. You may wish to go to the original site that I published this on. To do so, just click on the date link above.

This article is in its entirety.

WASHINGTON - Supporters of ethanol like to describe it as a cleaner-burning fuel additive that helps keep the air clearer, but critics say its environmental drawbacks may outweigh some of the benefits.

While ethanol made from corn gives a boost to the incomes of American farmers, the alternative fuel poses complex trade-offs for US oil refiners, environmental groups and federal regulators trying to find cleaner gasoline to curb pollution.

"The short answer is ethanol is both good and bad for the environment," said Daniel Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming and energy program.

Ethanol is in the spotlight because Congress and the administration of President George W. Bush are grappling with US energy problems, and supporters of ethanol tout the fuel as one of the solutions.

Unlike other fuel additives, ethanol does not contaminate ground water supplies but it produces more smog in some circumstances and tiny amounts of sulfur result when it is blended into gasoline.

"The benefits are that ethanol does reduce carbon monoxide when used in the winter time, but it increases smog when used in the summer," Becker said.

That's because a key drawback to ethanol is that it evaporates more quickly in certain conditions, which results in higher emissions of smog-forming compounds, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

When compared to conventional gasoline, ethanol yielded lower emissions of carbon monoxide than motor gasoline but higher emissions of nitrogen oxide that causes smog, EIA said.

"We are more concerned about solving the smog problem than about solving the carbon monoxide problem," Becker said.

Ethanol is a renewable resource that the Bush administration wants to help reduce US dependence on foreign oil imports. It also can raise octane in gasoline and prevent annoying engine "pings."

Ethanol is one of the main so-called "oxygenates" or oxygen booster added to reformulated gasoline to meet federal clean air requirements. The extra oxygen helps the fuel burn cleaner.

The Environmental Protection Agency requires most major US cities to use the cleaner-burning gasoline with more oxygen by weight during the hot summer months to reduce smog and air pollution.

Ethanol is the second most popular oxygen booster for fuel among refiners - ranking only behind MTBE, which is now used in almost 9 out of every 10 gallons of reformulated gasoline.

However, Ethanol use will soon soar now that a dozen states have decided to ban MTBE because that fuel additive can leak from underground storage tanks into drinking water supplies.

ETHANOL AND SULFUR PROBLEMS?

Separately, finished fuel-grade ethanol contains small amounts of sulfur, between 2 and 8 parts per million, to help distinguish it from drinkable alcohol, according to EIA.

This could become a problem for refiners when they begin meeting new federal low-sulfur requirements in a few years, EIA said. Beginning in 2006, the sulfur content of gasoline must be reduced to an average 30 parts per million.

In addition to environmental concerns, ethanol blended gasoline is more complicated to transport to markets.

The additive poses logistical problems because gasoline containing ethanol cannot be shipped in the nation's vast network of multi-fuel pipelines.

Moisture in pipelines and storage tanks causes ethanol to separate from gasoline.

As result, the petroleum-based gasoline components must be shipped separately to a terminal and then blended with the ethanol when the product is loaded into trucks.

Those higher shipping costs, which would likely be passed on to consumers, are a major reason California sought a federal waiver from having to use ethanol after the state banned MTBE.

The Bush administration denied the request last month, even though environmentalists insisted the White House decision would spew additional smog-forming pollution into the state's air.

"This will mean dirtier air and price hikes at the pumps in California," said Frank O'Donnell, executive director of the Clean Air Trust.

The ethanol industry defends the environmental benefits of its product.

The Renewable Fuels Association, the industry's trade group, acknowledged that when ethanol is blended with gasoline it slightly raises the volatility of the fuel that can lead to increased evaporation of smog-forming emissions.

However, blending ethanol reduces carbon monoxide tailpipe emissions that are responsible for 20 percent of smog formation, the renewable fuels group said.

TRADE GROUP SAYS ETHANOL CUTS OZONE

In addition, ethanol-blended fuel cuts tailpipe emissions of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, that form ozone in the atmosphere, according to the trade group.

"Thus, the use of ethanol plays an important role in smog reduction," the association said.

However, some of ethanol's VOC reduction benefits have been scaled back.

Last week, the EPA finalized a rule allowing ethanol-blended gasoline sold in Chicago and Milwaukee to contain larger amounts of VOC pollutants.

The VOC standard was raised to 0.3 pounds per square inch Reid vapor pressure - a measurement of the volatility of fuel - from the previous 0.2 pounds. The EPA move was intended to reduce the cost of gasoline in the two cities, which depend almost exclusively on ethanol-blended motor fuel.

Environmentalists are also concerned over the amount of energy, and therefore the pollution, needed to make ethanol from processing corn.

The industry's trade group said ethanol generates more energy than used during production, and cites an 1996 Agriculture Department report that found ethanol contains 34 percent more energy that is used in the production process.

Story by Tom Doggett

Story Date: 16/7/2001

P.S.
Thats just 34 percent or barely over 1/3 more energy than that used to produce the product. So in other words, we must additionally continue to create a significant debilitating carbon footprint in the production of a product they are saying is better than say: electric vehicles or versus another bio-fuel which can produce far more energy than this from corn which produces only 34 percent.

Criminals Tend to Repeat Offenses

June 2nd

So now that you've watched the documentary entitled "Who Killed the Electric Car?" guess what happened today?

The President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative was re-announced today. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to $130 million over three years, subject to Congressional appropriations, to advance the development and use of fuel cells for automotive, stationary, and portable power applications.

I'll make this as short as possible and instead of giving you my rant on the topic; I present reports from apparently reliable sources. But regardless, as in the Iraq war, when heavy research and experience has been reported to some of our key leaders, the research/reports have been ignored, joked about and/or ridiculed at great expense, consequence and death.

Title:		Environmental Impact of H2 from Hydrogen Fuel Cell on the Stratosphere
Authors:		Tromp, T. K.
Affiliation:		AA(California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 170-25, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States ; ttromp@dar.caltech.edu)
Publication:		American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #A72C-0192
Publication Date:		12/2002
Origin:		AGU
AGU Keywords:		0330 Geochemical cycles
Abstract Copyright:		(c) 2002: American Geophysical Union
Bibliographic Code:		2002AGUFM.A72C0192T

Abstract

Hydrogen fuel cell technology seems poised to replace the internal combustion engine in the upcoming decade. Environmentalists tout the technology as environmentally friendly and stress its low tailpipe emissions resulting in cleaner urban air. At face value the technology should have a negligible impact because the major byproduct is water. What has not been considered is that it will take billions of liters of H₂ to power the future national (and international) fleet of fuel-cell vehicles and that the leading contenders to make that H₂ are the very fossil fuels that cause smog and greenhouse gases. If that does happen, there will be two important consequences. First, the current fossil fuel pollutants will not disappear, rather they will be shifted from tailpipe sources to where the fossil fuels are extracted and the hydrogen is made. In addition, the fuel to make the cells work, H₂, is an important trace constituent (~0.5 ppmv) of the atmosphere [Novelli et al., 1999] and participates in reactions involving pollutants and greenhouse gases [Crutzen, 1977]. Thus, anthropogenic H₂ emissions could have significant indirect environmental consequences. The global annual H₂ production from current sources, anthropogenic plus natural, could be doubled in coming decades with the development of a hydrogen fuel economy [Zittel, 1996]. Such an increase could significantly impact the hydrogen cycle and other cycles with which it interacts in both the atmosphere and biosphere. We have examined the potential environmental impact of additional H₂ release for several emission scenarios. We calculated the ODP of H₂. Given that the oxidation of H₂ is an important source of water vapor in the stratosphere, which is otherwise isolated from direct sources of H₂O by the `cold trap' at the tropopause. We calculated what kind of elevated concentrations of stratospheric water vapor could occur for the different emission scenarios. Not only will additional water vapor cool the stratosphere, but also it will allow heterogeneous chemical reactions to occur when it forms PSCs in polar regions. H₂ also reacts with atmospheric OH radicals, the premier oxidant in the earth's atmosphere. We will calculate how increasing fluxes of H₂ to the atmosphere will shift the balance of the earth's oxidation chemistry, potentially increasing the lifetimes of other more harmful gases.

Until next time:
Nuff said!

Enough Already

May 31

Enough already with my seemingly open complaints about government not doing (barely) anything to spur the growth of alternative energy and energy saving measures that we need here in the U.S.

As I was thinking of ways for government to strongly encourage private, corporate entities, and individuals to do the right things on their own, I started thinking tax incentives. Since there are so many tax deductions for big business and the rich, why not for the regular guy/gal?

Then today as I was pouring over the Financial Times; in the Thursday edition I spotted an article with the header: Solar energy investor presses for extension of US tax credit
In summary, a leading US private equity group last November said it would team up with Lockheed Martin, the defense company, to develop solar energy fields in the southern U.S. They figure the solar market could be worth $30bn in 10 years but the deal hinges on the extension of a 30 percent tax credit for solar investments.

Again, why can't our government take lessons from Germany who has been doing so since the middle of the 1990's? Why can't it be a semi permanent part of the taxation policy until our country is well entrenched in solar and other alternative energy solutions? This week, Germany announced it would peel back a small percentage of incentives. Far from eliminating or severely curtailing the incentives. Why is it so hard to do the very same thing here? Is it the overly generous salaries and pensions paid to our government leaders? Is it some ridiculous program that we are funding? Is it just the war and the billions/trillion we are wasting in the name of "national security" over-seas because a handful of men and a woman have some sort of twisted plan to play out?

Why is it we don't offer complete tax deductions for putting energy saving light bulbs in our homes, meaningful deductions for going to hybrid vehicles over our 100lbs. per week carbon producing gasoline powered vehicles. Why should property owners pay higher taxes for erecting wind energy mills on their property and feeding electric back onto the power grid? It seems in this last example that the savings are reduced greatly through additional taxes. Where is the logic in that???

Enough already...

Who Killed the Electric Car? parts 1 - 9

May 30

I have been telling people about this for a couple years now and for some reason, people don't believe me and won't even rent it from Netflix (NFLX)to see for themselves. Yeah! what the frack! its a SciFi film. WHAT?!!?

NOTE: if you find that the videos sound funny, scroll down to the next article "You Gotta Love 42 MPG With Today's Gas Prices and click the stop button on the video in that article. Also you can hit the pause button on the video and wait for the whole thing to get downloaded to your computer's cache before playing.

from FreeGlobalEnergy:
The GM EV1 had a $4000.00 incentive to buy this car forced to build by congress yet (GM) gave $100,000.00 tax incentive to buy the largest most gas guzzling vehicle on the road, the Hummer, otherwise this would have been merely impossible to sell such a rediculous concept.
An electric car is 35% - 97% cleaner than a comparable gas car, including the pollution generated by the electric power plant. The 35% number applies to states using a lot of "dirty" power, such as coal-fired plants. The 97% number applies to states like California that use a lot of "clean" power, including hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar.
Also, there is ongoing research to make flywheel energy storage systems that can replace conventional chemical batteries for mobile applications, such as for electric vehicles. Proposed flywheel systems would eliminate many of the disadvantages of existing battery power systems.

They started out with defective Delco batteries when they already had access to better batteries, after many complaints they switched to the better batteries, everyone who leased them loved them, GM almost always builds superior American cars and built this one too good, it was definitely a threat to oil as a solar charging infrastructure was already being built. When GM pulled the plug so did Toyota's Rav-4 EV which gets equivalent to 154MPG comparing grid KW to gas at 2005 prices.

Also check out this supporting site from Sony (SNE). It gives the whole time line and data seen in the film for more ponderous reading and exploration. Click Here

You Gotta Love 42 MPG With Today's Gas Prices

May 30

I went from a Chrysler New Yorker to a Toyota Echo, the one all gasoline car from the same company that competes with the Toyota Prius (TM) which gets somewhere between 52 - 60 MPG depending on who you talk to. I'd love a Toyota Prius if it were not for the $25,000 plus price tag. I'll keep my $10,500 42 MPG Toyota Echo for the time being. Its no wonder that Toyota discontinued the Echo for the heavier, more expensive, lower MPG replacement.

Little did I know that in North Carolina, a company of a little over 300? employees is making all electric vehicles. Perhaps we should start focusing on them and also put them on our watch list or in our stock portfolio.

Hybrid Technologies Inc OTC BB:(HYBR)

This company just announced it is working on a new supercar using a gas-electric hybrid engine and that should hit 220 mpg. Hybrid Technologies is aiming for a 150 to 180-mi. range per charge from the all-electric model, while its lithium-ion model meets gas hybrid needs to hit 220 mpg—minimum.

You will be able to purchase this car the company says in either late 2009 or early 2010. We can't wait!

HT1

HT2

Indiana Wind Farm Set To Be Largest In the Nation

May 30

At 462 wind turbines; the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in Fowler, Indiana may be the largest in the nation when completed by 2011. That is unless the 667 turbines of the Pampa Wind Farm in Texas get there first.

The Pampa Wind Farm is just a first phase in the T. Boone Pickens saga. When all four phases are completed, it may be the largest in the world. However I hope that everyone else doesn't just sit back and watch.

The Texas project is a (GE) and Mesa Power one whereas the Indiana project is a (BP) and Dominion Power one. It is great to see projects now on the road or in the field so-to-speak. Just yesterday we wrote about the John Deere (DE) projects in Missouri. And lets not forget the solar farm project in the Mohave Desert. If our own government is too greedy and stubborn to do the right thing, at least we have our big business who now have the blinders off and are leading the pack. Sad though, for if our government would take the lead when it should, we would have had this activity long ago. Look at Germany for example, by far one of the world's leaders in alternative energy usage. To think that Germany was a country we defeated in war and now they are one of the clear winners in this race for a better world. Is the U.S.A. only good for making war and depressing innovation and technologies now?

e2 energy — Harvesting the Wind with Suzlon..one of the big players today

As BP North America President Robert Malone pointed out: "the United States has 5 percent of the world's population but uses 25 percent of its oil." It costs our government and every tax paying citizen far more than it should for our energy. The government refuses to implement effective mass transportation while Europe, Japan, and now China lead by example. The company claims: If 10% of the world’s energy was generated by wind it would be equivalent of replacing all cars in the world with hybrids. Wind is an abundant domestic resource and is among the most cost competitive sources of low-carbon power. The company also thinks that it can develop 100 wind energy sites in the U.S. alone but it does not give a time frame. It too has a project in the great state of Texas, some 80 miles southwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. It expects the project to be completed in the second half of this year.

Its a long time over-due; our leaders must step out from their comfort zone and make positive and substantial steps for our future. Run, don't walk or stop on GO! says both the Chance and Community cards...

Good for the community, Good for the Farmers

Germany teaches...will the U.S. learn??

Deere Rides the Wind to Beat Boone

May 29th

Make no mistake. We're still swooning over T. Boone Pickens and his great Texas project (see the May 15th article), the largest wind energy project in the world. But on a smaller scale John Deere & Company (DE) is working to affect more communities across the country. As a result, more U.S. citizens will be able to spot the tall but small footprint wind energy mills across the country.

Two such projects have been completed in King City, and Rock Port, Missouri and soon in Kansas, City.

And just completed outside of Missouri this month is a utility-scale 52 or 53-megawatt project in Huron County, Michigan. One of the project partners and general contractors is a division of Alliant Energy (LNT) on which 32 wind turbines were erected. This project is also owned and developed by John Deere & Company (DE). Generally, the role of John Deere Wind Energy is that of both a debt and an equity investor. John Deere enters into agreements with local developers and landowners to facilitate the development and operation of wind energy projects.

So we hope that T. Boone Pickens is able to complete his worlds largest wind energy project soon. Meanwhile companies like John Deere are working to develop and complete smaller projects which will be seen around the country. This work increases employment and spurs the economies of the towns these projects are close to.

Just yesterday, Market Club calls a BUY for (DE). Market Club is one of my worthwhile indulgences. It is a tool that we greatly rely upon to help us choose good entry and exit points on the stocks that we're interested in. Market Club helps us trade with little to no emotion which greatly adds to our profit taking. We've written about INO TV twice here this week and Market Club is its partner site. One day soon, we will write an article to tell you more about the Market Club tool that we use in our daily trading.

Future1investor’s Indulgences

May 28th from my Vox page

There are very few things out here on the internet that I am genuinely excited about. My Father taught me about the importance of value for your money or in other words "bang for the buck". With that in mind, there is quite a lot to disappoint you. You'll waste hundreds and likely thousands of dollars because giving this trading system, that trading system, an online seminar here, a hotel seminar there, books, lots of books, CDs, DVDs, a try.. is like going to a casino.

You get to put down your money for a chance to win some knowledge. A chance to beat the house, or a chance to do better than the average guy/gal. A chance, just a chance and no guarantees either. Its all just a crap shoot!

Then every once in a blue moon, you might come across a site that delivers all those things, and has value to boot! One such a site is INO TV. I wrote about it a couple days ago here when I talked about Linda Raschke. Hers was one of the totally free video seminars that you can watch on the site even before plunking down even a dollar.

Then if like me you decide to plunk down some cash, you'll find that it is a most reasonable offer. And what do you get? YOU GET A LOT !!!!

For one, you'll find that this is universal training. It isn't tied to just our market here in the good ole U.S. of A. You'll find that it works for people in the U.K., Canada, Germany, China, Australia, simply everywhere.

And if you've ever taken an online course at a college, you know how expensive that can be. And you know that you are limited on time and the course will soon end. So you better have your entire schedule clear so that you can concentrate on your studies and nothing but. Otherwise the money will be gone before you know it and so will the training. INO TV gives you an Ivy League education and you can train at your own pace w/o the fear that it will be gone if you happen to get tied up with real life for a few weeks.

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Thats right, you aren't limited to a small selection of seminars. One price gives you access to this whole huge library of trading seminars. When you were in college, did you ever have a teacher that you just didn't get? That no matter how hard you tried you just weren't going to benefit from attending his/her class? Well my friends, that can happen at a seminar too! But with INO TV, if you find that you just don't "get" a particular trainer, guess what? You can search for another trainer on the same topic! They have a functioning search engine that helps you find exactly what you want. And if you aren't the type to use online search tools, the seminars are laid out in a very logical index as well. So you'll be sure to find the education that you want and need!

Real Life Experience
Unlike some college professors who just learn how to teach and the subject they are teaching in college before they themselves start regurgitating it back onto you; the trainers at INO TV are professionals with real life experience. They are some of the most well known traders in the world and they're available to teach you when you are part of INO TV. There are literally experts on every topic!

Eleven Channels
If you are a beginner, this is the best channel to start with. As you wish to learn more specific topics then move onto such channels as Charts & Analysis, Day Trading, Futures/Commodities, Options Trading, and more.

Great Way To Learn About Trading Systems!
Rather than waste lots of money trying this system or that system, you can find out all about trading systems at INO TV. It will help you choose the system that is right for you and eliminate the random chance. Discard all those trading systems spam emails. Go here first, find out about them on INO TV and decide which one is right for you. You could be saving yourself a huge chunk of change in this area alone! Again, that is what my Father calls value.

Help From Real People
This is the first of five promises you get as an INO TV subscriber. It isn't just a web site that is put up there for you to take down information and then have no support system should you need it. It is run and maintained by real people who are accessible to you either by email (the very most other sites ever offer you) or by phone from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST Monday thru Friday.

He Rested On the 7th Day
As you can tell, when I believe in something, I can be pretty passionate about it in my writing. Zig Ziglar once taught me that you can not truly convince others how good a product/service is unless you yourself use it on a daily basis. I use MarketClub and INO TV six days a week (Mon-Fri, Sun). Unlike God who rested on the 7th day, I do my R&R on Saturdays. Sunday, I'm preparing for the market on Monday.

Have you ever known you can trust someone just by the way they talk? There are those who you know are not selling you something but showing you common sense. Watch this short video and you decide. You'll meet Adam Hewison one of the co-founders of INO TV. Listen closely to his voice and you'll know and hear exactly what I mean.

Take it from me, one of the normal folks out there. If you tend to have a few indulgences in life, you'll not find a more invaluable indulgence than this one!

Most Discussed S&P 500 Companies

May 27th

Sentiment on S&P 500 Companies

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About Jodange Inc.

Leveraging off the significant investment in sentiment analytics to date by Cornell University, co-founders Larry Levy and Claire Cardie established Jodange in early 2007. The goal was to develop business applications that drive tangible value by allowing knowledge workers to better understand who is influencing their customers, competitors and marketplace in an environment where information continues to originate from an exploding number of information sources.