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Re: What are wise investments if one thinks energy will get cheaper?

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From: Jean-Christophe Hugly
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:11
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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.

Think about :
	- umbrellas
	- fridges
	- boats
	- grounds in the north not yet usable for agriculture

Because if the price of energy decreases dramatically, the earths temperature
will rise.

J-C
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