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Investing in oil & gas ought to be 'intellectually' a no brainer these days. This is especially the case when investors are comparing or trying to measure what their upside is or their prospects for making money are as a passive investor when investing in stocks, or real estate this year. Analysts at Fox News reviewed our past year end performance numbers for the NYSE stocks, DOW, and NASDAQ as of the end of 2007. According to the analysts at Fox News yesterday the stock market did 6.4% last year, and NASDAQ a bit over 9%. However, also mentioned was when comparing this past year's performance with the stock market highs of seven years ago, there has been no gain. During the same analysis a comment was made that real estate values are at or near their 52 week lows. If the total inflation of our economy is say 10% per year, and your money is now worth less and less due to: increasing taxation, and higher living costs, balance of trade deficits, the weaking dollar against international currencies, and huge government spending...then what are your options if you are presently on a fixed income, or might be soon? What if you are not on a fixed income, but don't want to see your money taxed away for dubious or ridiculous reasons? You will need to exceed a 10% yearly return on your investments to stay ahead of inflation, and have what you need for retirement. Remember, there are few good tax breaks when you invest in the stock market, and real estate in most cases is an 'active or hands-on process'. You must maintain your real estate, and be attentive. You will often discover when you sell, the returns are not as good as you thought they were going to be, especially when you factor-in the time you spend, and the expenses you incur to own your real estate. I know where you can invest in oil & gas private offerings and get immediate cash flow while writing-off most of your investment in the first year you invest. By diversifying in many oil & gas wells, and oil field net assets, including pipelines, and acreage, you can control a highly diversified fractional working interest ownership; while you are able to sharply reduce the capital risk, or risk of losing your investment. The upside is tremendous, and exciting at today's prices for both oil & natural gas. This is certainly the case when an oil & gas company has already acquired it's assets at a fraction of what they are worth at today's oil & natural gas prices, and especially so when you consider the 'recoverable reserves' in key oil & gas producing areas are now worth millions more than just a year ago. Take advantage of the truth I'm telling you now exisits in certain oil & gas investments being offered by the well positioned companies in the business. The bottom line is, smart, and flexible money knows we are going to be reliant on oil & gas for many years to come. This is regardless of how much we conserve, or explore for other replacement methods of supplying our increasing energy needs. Other countries will continue to rely on oil & gas as their principal energy source, and we won't be able to stop them. Ethanol replacement adherants are perpetuating a scam, since point blank, it takes more energy, and creates more waste to grow, harvest, and process corn to turn it into ethanol than does oil & gas, by a long shot. Don't 'hook-line & sinker' buy into the alternative energy investments which may never be scalable, or practical enough to replace oil & gas in the foreseeable future. In other words don't buy-in to the emotional nonsense talk of many of the global warming types. Make money when you invest in oil & gas investments, and enjoy filling your gas tank with whatever cars you want to own and drive. If you would like to explore the possibilities of making 10 or more times on your money as a passive oil & gas working interest investor within the next several years, and want to lower your gross income for tax purposes, while legally writing-off your investments in legitimate oil & gas drilling programs, just let me know by email, or telephone.
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