{"id":5982,"date":"2013-10-11T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2013-10-29T05:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:07:25","slug":"solar-vs-fossil-fuel-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/solar-vs-fossil-fuel-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar vs. fossil fuel stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/a>
\nShould Harvard President Drew Faust
\n
\nworry that<\/a>
\n“Significantly constraining investment options risks significantly constraining investment returns”?
\nActually, if Harvard has been wasting investments in oil and gas for the
\npast year, its endowment has lost a bundle.
\nDitto VSU.<\/p>\n

\nLet’s compare stock performance of
\n
\nGuggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE:TAN)<\/a>
\nwhich invests in solar stocks with the
\n
\nPowerShares DB Energy Fund (NYSEARCA:DBE)<\/a>,
\nwhich invests in oil and natural gas companies.
\nYep, that’s
\n
\n 120% for TAN and 0% for DBE<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
\n\"TAN<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSure, if you go back farther, solar stocks continued to drop after 2009
\nuntil this year:<\/p>\n

\n
\n\"TAN<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nBut that’s the point.
\nThe tipping point has come.
\n
\nSolar parity<\/a>
\nwith fossil fuels has been reached (and long since reached with nuclear<\/a>).
\nThe
\n
\nlong hot smoggy night of burning fossil plants is ending<\/a>
\nand
\n
\nsolar power will win like the Internet did<\/a>.
\nSoon we’ll see
\n
\neven Southern Company get out in front on making Georgia and the southeast
\na net exporter of solar and wind energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nDoes Harvard want its endowment portfolio to be left behind?
\n
\nDoes VSU<\/a>?\n<\/p>\n

\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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