Would you buy shares in an energy company?

[Lenny]

Yes Trillian. My DH works for one of these big evils (you know, pollution, greedy etc), and we have bought shares in them.

Although i don't have shares in banks, i think this is much the same. You never hear of banks having to sell their buidlings in mortgagee sales!

Oh, and the return we get on the 'evil' shares is not huge (because they keep expanding and buying more infrastructure) but the share price has steadily increased.

[Phteven]

I have shares in an energy company. I also have shares in a renewable energy company.

[Trillian]

LOL Lenny, I already have shares in mining and banking I have some money to invest for the kids and we're looking covering a few different areas - so we've got mining and banking, energy is definitely on the cards and then retail after that. Onyx, renewable energy is a good idea - I'll have to go and do a bit of research on that one.

[BellyBelly]

I second that - energy is such a debatable topic at the moment and there is much talk on renewable energy. Something we widely use today might be gone in the future, or not a major source of energy, if someone comes up with a more environmentally friendly, affordable option.... so I wouldn't invest in energy, perhaps renewable though