Not exact matches
For example, if you believe that energy prices are going to decline, you might find
transportation stocks appealing, because you believe one of the biggest cost inputs — gasoline and jet
fuel — is about to plummet.
Puerto Rican scientists are still taking
stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without
fuel for generators and
transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.
Vertimass LLC, a California - based start - up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend -
stock for use in
transportation fuels.
One might, for example, trade oil futures as a hedge on a position in
transportation stocks; when oil prices rise, trucking and airline companies suffer in the short term as their margins get squeezed due to
fuel costs.
In fact the Metrobus rolling
stock consists of ordinary articulated diesel buses — their
fuel and emissions savings come not so much from fancy expensive tech as from a systems approach to solving one of the world's most vexing
transportation and air pollution messes.
One of the reasons I am a fan of Integrated Combined Cycle Gasification is that it can use a variety of feed
stocks and blends of feed
stocks to produce a variety of
transportation fuels or energy storage.