Was anyone here on DU smart enough to invest in oil stocks in 2000?

[Poiuyt]

We should have seen this coming when Bush first took office. Oh well.

[evlbstrd]

1. Now is the time to get into alternative energy stocks.

Even the Bushies are doing that.

[Montauk6]

Is that why we always see * on a bike?

[evlbstrd]

6. Yup.

He can't afford gas, either.

[Montauk6]

8. Now you KNOW that's bad when JR Ewing can't get a fill-up!

[benburch]

2. Smart enough...

But not rich enough. :(

[kittenpants]

3. not in 2000, but I bought an energy fund

a few years ago that's really doing well. Should I feel guilty profiting off of *? I'd rather the fund did badly & * was impeached, but we are where we are.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Dumped my entire 401k in energy heavy stocks right after 9/11...

But diversified last year. Couldn't take the guilt anymore.

[CountAllVotes]

7. same here

I had money in oil for awhile. However, with the increasing deaths in Iraq, etc. I found I could barely look myself in the mirror. So, I sold at a slight profit and walked away completely from the stock market. I'm now in CDs and I-bonds and money market savings account, all insured investments.

At least I don't feel like I am contributing to it now, which is fine with me.

GREED SUCKS!

:kick:

[Guckert]

5. I bought because the Bush slime kept vomiting that if Kerry was elected

The price of gas would SKYROCKET. DUH!!! i guess they forgot about that...

[Jim Sagle]

9. They were right. Kerry WAS elected and the price DID skyrocket.

[mknmehappy]

10. Yep.

[quiet.american]

11. No. How could I carry a "No Blood for Oil" sign at protests --

-- and then log on to see how my oil stocks were doing.

[cosmik debris]

12. Teehee, teehee, I'm retired now

I know some will say it is blood money, but I participated in the capitalist system by selling my labor, and that got me nowhere! So I decided to try a different form of participation.

[elehhhhna]

13. HAL/KBR was on the verge of bankruptcy before their top salesman

appointed himself VP of the US.