Alternative-Energy Stocks Shine As High Oil Costs Here To Stay

Ethanol, solar power and even pig manure are starting to look like good alternatives to today’s high energy prices. That’s created lots of opportunities for investors. Alt-energy stocks have taken off, especially after President Bush touted new technologies in his Jan. 31 State of the Union address.

“We’ve got a number of renewable and emission-free technologies which are on the cusp of becoming commercially viable for the first time,” said Brion Tanous, managing director at Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., a San Francisco-based institutional research and investment banking firm.

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