Members of Congress are planning to take energy legislation in an entirely new direction in light of the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico. It is unlikely that the president’s compromise – more drilling in the short term and a long term transition to renewable sources – will pass through the Senate. [...]

Even though most people interested in domestic policy are looking at healthcare reform right now, we would like to point to a very deep analytical piece regarding the pending Clean Energy and Security Act. The article focuses on the media, but very aptly lays out some unique challenges that the industry faces. In a nutshell:
If [...]

Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to pass the additional $2 billion the Cash for Clunkers program needs to continue. And considering the huge majority the Democrats have in the Senate, it’s fairly certain that Reid will be able to keep this promise. Assuming the program remains enormously popular, what’s the best way to cash in [...]

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454) passed the House of Representatives last Friday – but only by seven votes. Obama focused today on making his case to the U.S. Senate, confident that they will “move this country forward.” He cited the case of California, where tougher energy legislation in the [...]

Many major news networks reporting on Obama’s June 23 press conference focused on what he said about Iranian elections, healthcare, and his own smoking habits. But they left out the biggest impact the administration will have on the stock market in the near future: the alternative energy bill (H.R. 2454) that will come to [...]

The Dow Jones Indexes revealed an index of stocks and sectors that are expected to receive a substantial portion of the taxpayer money from the stimulus package. The index is split into six sectors: “Alternative Energy, Construction & Materials, Energy Grid, Environment, Technology, Telecom/Internet” – which is surprisingly close to the very same categories we [...]

Jim Cramer went on a bit of a rant last Thursday in naming a list of stock sectors on what has been dubbed as Obama’s Corporate Enemies List. Tom Brennan claims the sectors Obama apparently promised to take on during the campaign are “credit card companies, the coal industry, the steelmakers, the utilities and the [...]

Obama talked about the country’s environmental needs for a bit on Monday. Although he was mostly discussing this as justification for his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, it emphasizes the recurring theme of needing to utilize alternative energy sources.
However, Obama himself admitted that we have a long way to go before we make truly sufficient progress. [...]

This article from back in November by Gary the ETF Expert has some pretty solid reasoning on his picks for a few good Obama sectors. He relies predominately on the idea that Obama will improve our country’s infrastructure – and do it in a “greener, cleaner way.”

When we were little (back in the olden days) our grandparents had a coal furnace. We loved to see the coalman come and send all that coal down the coal chute. In winter it was even better because we could search around the chute and find eyes for our snowmen. Not so [...]