It's a rhetorical question of course. It's also the title of this article here which explores the emerging range of alternative energy investments. Their definitions go a lot wider than here at AEI. We have not and will not cover OTC stocks. And it's a big stretch of the imagination to define Ford and General Motors as green stocks because a tiny fraction of the cars they make are hybrids.

On AEI, you won't find any buy, sell or hold recommendations, but we fully intend to continue exploring the global universe of alternative energy stocks, their underlying technology and encourage you to participate.

This is an emerging industry at the start of a long boom. Rising fuel prices, rising environmental standards and pent-up energy demand are all coalescing to create an enormous wall of money going into alternative energy.

Capital markets will play the critical part in allocating these resources.

That's why green stocks are worth your attention.