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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (39275)	10/7/2003 2:24:46 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 74559

Heading for the city... timecanada.com And then there is Stevie's message: Living For The City Lyrics Stevie Wonder A boy is born in hard time Mississippi Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty His parents give him love and affection To keep him strong moving in the right direction Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha! His father works some days for fourteen hours And you can bet he barely makes a dollar His mother goes to scrub the floors for many And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny Living just enough, just enough for the city... yeah! His sister's black but she is sho'nuff pretty Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy To walk to school she's got to get up early Her clothes are old but never are they dirty Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many His patience's long but soon he won't have any To find a job is like a haystack needle Cause where he lives they don't use colored people Living just enough, just enough for the city... Living just enough... For the city... ooh, ooh (Repeat several times) His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty He spends his life walking the streets of New York City He's almost dead from breathing in air pollution He tried to vote but to him there's no solution Living just enough, just enough for the city... yeah, yeah, yeah! I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow This place is cruel no where could be much colder If we don't change the world will soon be over Living just enough, stop giving just enough for the city!!!! La, La, La, La, La, La, Da Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (39275)	10/7/2003 8:01:21 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hello Malcolm, I am working on an oil brokering deal, and am learning quite a bit about the buying requirement and import mechanism of China, global industry traditions, shipping/logistics, and so many other aspects. Business is a wonderful game. If it is not one thing, it is another :0) So, yes, buy gold, platinum, palladium, nickel, iron, oil, gas, Canadian sands, energy facilities/logistics, energy technologies, ... because the world is still on a growth curve. Chugs, Jay

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (39275)	10/8/2003 2:49:12 AM
From: que seria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Malcolm: Do you have particular companies in mind for that? So I don't think if we put all our dough into oil companies that we will necessarily do as well as buying shrewdly chosen companies the products or services of which drastically save energy. I like the concept and I've looked, but I haven't bit on anything due to abiding concerns about valuation and/or the substitution of less efficient for more efficient means of producing power. You can't bless a technology as economic just because it's green. Gov'ts can change the equation for what alternative power technologies are economic by pricing externalities into it, via tax policy or pollution limits/credits, etc. However, that generally hasn't happened yet in the U.S. I've dabbled with Capstone Turbine (CPST), which makes micro-turbines, some of which were made to run on methane from dumpsites! Nice concept but the company barely has a pulse, and seems to need a perpetual power crisis to thrive. I've also looked at the usual suspects, PLUG, etc.