In our opinion, natural gas represents a unique investment opportunity in the United States. It is abundant, affordable and clean burning. Natural gas production is used to generate electricity and heat millions of homes throughout our nation. Historically, it has been cheaper and cleaner than energy generated by coal.
The advent of major shale plays – including Barnett, Fayetteville, Marcellus and Haynesville – are adding to the plentiful reserves in the U.S. This means that opportunities to add natural gas to an energy portfolio have new long-term potential.
At Douglas Scott Securities, we have one of the most talented geo-science professionals in the business, bringing more than 50 years of experience finding and exploiting natural gas and its by-products. Even famed businessman T. Boone Pickens now advocates using natural gas as a transportation fuel in order to help us reduce the amount of foreign oil purchased by the U.S. – and move the economy forward.
Wind power is one of the fastest-growing sectors of Renewable Energy for this country and the entire world. The collective move by the U.S. toward environmentally sensitive renewables has begun a massive effort in Washington to migrate our country to a Renewable Portfolio Standard.
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This standard is a mandate to all utilities that they use and sell a percentage of renewable generated electrity. The call has been for as much as 20% of U.S. electrical generation to be created using this type of energy production.
Wind farms, in our opinion, now represent what could be one of the most significant investment opportunities in the last 20 years. As our lawmakers debate the need for RPS and the tax credits needed to move the wind industry forward, we recognize the long-term potential for these types of investments.
Oil remains the #1 energy source in the world. Almost everything we have and use has been touched by oil in some manner. However, our world’s oil endowment has peaked in its production – and subsequently, we will see escalating costs for this commodity.
As our oil supply continues to shrink, other economic engines (such as India and China) will demand a larger share of this dwindling commodity. This also represents an extraordinary opportunity for investment in this arena.
Because the majority of our oil supply comes from unstable geo-political areas – and the incentives from Washington for domestic exploration – we will continue to develop our portfolio holdings in oil.