The shares of ethanol companies have tumbled alongside them.
Ethanol is in the last stage of a speculative fad's life cycle. On Mad Money, we want you to raise less corn and more hell, like Mary Lease, or maybe just raise less corn and more money. But even for ethanol's fans, the price of oil is never far from mind. Our corporate oligarchy operates a little bit differently in America.
The shares of ethanol companies have tumbled alongside them. See, now everyone else is starting to pile in; that's the time for you to get out. You start with the highest-quality stocks in the sector. And larger agricultural producers Archer Daniels Midland Co. Even so, ethanol's potential has attracted some big names. WilderShares LLC, creator of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index.
And in his January state of the union address, President George W. Click here to read the full Mad Money Recap for that episode. But Fortune's Marc Gunther says the giant retailer is poised to change that. Sell into the strength, because it won't last much longer.
One tankful of the latest craze in alternative energy could feed one person for a year, Lester Brown tells Fortune. Ramsey, an agricultural economist at Global Insight.