Have you ever noticed that some people tend to venture into the New Year not with the renewed sense of fervor you’d expect, but rather with regret and apprehension?

What horrible things will happen this year? Will I live up to my expectations? Will I live up to others’ expectations? Will this year at least be better than last year?

Listen, I’m no cheerleader when it comes to this kind of stuff. In fact, I’m often called “Scrooge” during Christmastime. I don’t get excited about Christmas carols. I find them to be nothing more than Big Retail’s attempt to suppress my impressive bargain-hunting skills while shopping. And I don’t get excited about snow on Christmas morning . . . as this means I’m going to have to shovel it or drive in it.

But starting off the New Year with the kind of pessimism that’s usually reserved for death-row inmates and toll booth collectors seems to be a bit extreme, and really runs counter to our goal of making money.

Motivate This!

Last week there was some joker motivational speaker on television. You know the type. He was giving that whole “If you want to be rich, all you have to do is envision it” routine.

What a load of nonsense!

You know better than anyone, if you want to be rich, you have to do more than just “envision” it. You have to get up off your ass and make it happen.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous French aviator and writer, once said, “As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it.”

Certainly this is true for anyone who seeks wealth.

Bill Gates sure as hell didn’t just sit in his room predicting a billion-dollar operating system.

And investors looking to build or continue to build their fortunes in 2007 won’t just sit by and foresee opportunities. They will seize them. They will profit from them!

As we head into 2007, investors should be ecstatic . . . as this will, without a doubt, be an historical and exceptionally profitable year for savvy energy investors.

The Future’s so Bright . . . I’m Going Solar!

The genie’s out of the bottle, my friends.

Energy supplies simply cannot keep up with our growing demands. Peak oil is real . . . global warming, whether you believe it or not, is dictating world policy and social change . . . and geopolitical turmoil in oil-producing nations is forcing the West to find new sources of clean, domestic energy—and fast!

Now some countries—especially Germany and Japan—have been instituting their own incentives and mandates over the past decade or so in an attempt to bolster alternative energy integration and take decisive action against the coming energy implosion.

But in 2007, the United States, the world’s largest and most technologically powerful economy, will finally start to move forward with its own incentives and mandates. And I’m not just talking about the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and all the lip-service that followed. I’m talking about real, significant changes in policy. Changes that will enable renewable energy markets not only to operate in a more competitive economic climate, but actually prove that, on a level playing field, renewable energy alternatives can be (and in some cases already are) much cleaner, more efficient and less expensive than conventional energy sources.

Granted, these policy changes won’t happen overnight. We all know how slow Washington is to move on anything. Unless it’s a pay raise for Congress, of course.

But just the congressional debates on new legislation . . . just the media attention they will conjure up . . . just the hearts and minds of voters this will play on is all enough to do two things:

Provide the momentum needed to make alternative energy integration a reality, favoring both investors and environmentalists. (Though these can be and in many cases already are one and the same.)

Support the continued growth of renewable energy markets, ultimately leading to a stable and sustainable rise in renewable energy stock prices.

Domestic energy policy is one of the six issues the new Congress plans to address in its first 100 hours.

In fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to introduce the new energy package on January 18. That’s only two weeks away!

Alternative energy will definitely be a huge part of this. And the market will respond.

Just like it did last year, when various pieces of legislation headed into debate and “addicted to oil” speeches saturated the airwaves.

Listen: At this point, unless you hate money, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be playing at least a few renewable energy stocks in 2007. It’s just a no-brainer.

In fact, we have a new geothermal stock in our Green Chip portfolio right now that’s already on its way to doubling by August. And that’s without any new legislation at all! So just wait to see what happens once Democrats start pushing their new energy policies.

I’m telling you, Green Chip investors are going clean up in 2007!

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Jeff Siegel