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• Year-to-Date Results Rekindle Ethanol Optimism

  By Howard Rothman - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: ADM, GPRE, PEIX, VLO

  It’s been a challenging stretch for the domestic ethanol industry. “One of the toughest,” according to the Wall Street Journal, “in its three-decade history.” Recent events, though, have led even some of the fuel’s harshest critics to concede there could be a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

  If indeed there is good news, the beleaguered industry and its supporters will gladly take it. Cascading more »

• Can Renewables Renew the Life of Your Portfolio?

  By Ash Anderson - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, GPRE, SPWR

  How do you get power to your house? I know it comes to mine through a combination of coal, wind, and solar. There may be some people reading this who are 100% renewable, and then there’s likely others who are the polar opposites. The question that we’re here to answer, though, is whether or not we can make money from the companies powering renewable energy.

  Finding the companies more »

• Squeezed Ethanol Makers Looking Elsewhere for Profitability

  By Howard Rothman - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: ADM, CLC, GPRE, PEIX, VLO

  If you were watching ethanol company stocks over the last five years, you’re probably suffering from a serious case of whiplash. They boomed with the fuel’s fortunes in 2008, crashed like everything else in 2009, recovered impressively in 2010, and then fell in both 2011 and 2012. So far this year most are up between 20% and 40%, but few investors believe these gains will prove sustainable.

  Producers more »

• A Closer Look at FutureFuel

  By Nihar Patel - March 9, 2013 | Tickers: DD, FF, GPRE

  After deciding that working at any place called FutureFuel (NYSE: FF) would be awesome, I further decided that an alternative fuel company with a dividend, cash, and low debt deserved my closer attention. In a prior piece, I went over all the metrics that I think made the company interesting. I prefer not to rehash them, because I want to focus more on the future growth and focus of the more »

• Alternative Fuels for a Fancy, Green Future

  By Nihar Patel - February 27, 2013 | Tickers: FF, GPRE, REGI

  The world of the future is green with gardens on buildings and crystal clear streams all of the place and running off buildings. Everything is pure white or chrome. This is not the future I signed up for in 2012. We'll have to take it one-step at a time, and biofuels are one of those steps that will carry the world into the future. Green technology gets a bad more »

• Most Impressive Companies of this Earnings Season

  By Brian Nichols - December 2, 2012 | Tickers: ANGI, BGFV, GPRE, KSWS, TASR

  This earnings season we’ve seen a trend: The majority of companies have met or exceeded bottom line expectations but have been weak on top line numbers. This shows a trend of companies being more conservative and cutting costs due to a drop in demand/growth. However, there are some companies that outperformed, and simply shocked Wall Street with their quarterly report. With that being said, I am looking at more »

• Continuing Challenges in Biofuels

  By Joshua Bondy - December 1, 2012 | Tickers: AMRS, GPRE, KIOR

  Biofuels promise energy independence and local jobs. Sadly such promises have not played out exactly as was hoped. The ethanol craze came about and the resulting pressure on corn prices and the world's food supply soured investors’ opinions on the technology. As the price of crude came off of its highs of $150 per barrel investors became more conservative. Higher input prices and lower revenues are not encouraging trends more »

• The Car That CO2 Built

  By Roland Hughes - December 21, 2011 | Tickers: CLC, EXC, GPRE, WM

  There has been a lot of talk about CO2 sequestering technology lately.

  http://sequestration.org/

  The obvious solution to factory-produced CO2 isn't trying to bury it, despite what people say. That may be required as temporary storage, but it is not a good option. Eventually it will leak, just like those salt mines will eventually leak, but we put nuclear waste there anyway. (Nuclear, the clean form of energy more »