Drooling Elmo

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  • Bear Bottom Yet to Be Seen - Barron's
    Call it what you want, bear market of not, but my oil portfolio of BPT, HGY, LGCY, PBT, PWE and PVX is up 100% with no DRIP, from three years ago and has paid a 12% dividend return over the same period.

    This has meant my overall portfolio is still 10% annually into the black with only 30% of my money in oil.
    Jul 28 09:55 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buy Opportunities Like These Do Not Come Along Very Often
    I have 50% of my portfolio in BPT, PBT, PVX, PWE and LGCY and every month when those dividend checks come in I say hallaluyah all the way to the bank. To boot I have owned all of these for 5 years or more, so they have shown decent gains even without the dividends.
    Jun 20 13:39 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Hyperinflation, Here We Come
    I get 680 miles on a tankful and I'll only put 5000 miles a year on it. But let's say I drove it 230 miles a week. I would need to fill it every three weeks or 18 times per year.

    The amount I saved on the truck offsets the gas price for 57 fillups. At 18 fill ups per year that's a little over three years.

    So Andy So, there are always lots of ways to look at things in a positive way. I see bargains everywhere and am buying everything I can find at rockbottom prices!

    Jun 18 10:08 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Hyperinflation, Here We Come
    Sorry Andy So, I don't know where to begin. So I won't even try.

    I will say though that my newly bought 1999 Suburban has a 44 gallon gas tank and costs me about $200 to fill up now and if I had owned it a year ago it would have cost me about $125 to fill up.

    I looked at this vehicle with my neighbor in July 2007 and the asking price was $12,995 and it had 68,000 miles. My neighbor ended up getting it for $12,000. Last week I saw it in his yard for sale and I bought it, now with 74,500 miles for $6700. Almost 50% depreciation on one year on a nine year old vehicle. I'll bet that has never happened before on a vehicle that old.

    The amount I saved offsets the extra price in gas for over 3 years.

    $11,000 Truck value if gas prices were still $3.15
    $6700 Truck value with $4.15 gas

    $4300 Savings

    $75 Extra cost to fill up tank

    $4300/$75
    Jun 18 10:02 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • WOLF
    It seems with people wanting to vacation at a destination location Great Wolf is poised to explode. You drive to one place, park your car, and have everything right at hand, entertainment, restaurants, bars, shopping, spas, and of course your room. All of the Great Wolf Lodges are located in tourist areas with tons to do within 5 minutes, if you should need to get out of the lodge.

    We go twice a year and never leave the building. So I am buying all I can.
    Jun 05 10:08 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View forum topic

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