Has green lost its luster? Of course not. Yet that seems to be the attitude of more than a few. Sure, solar stocks have been battered over the past few months. But didn't the Dow (Index: DJI) go from over 13,000 to below 11,000 in the same time? Indeed, it did. And hasn't Exxon Mobile (NYSE: XOM) gone from nearly $95 to to about $75 in the same time? Indeed, it has. Even the incessantly-talked-about Transocean (NYSE: RIG) is down 15%. . . in just the past two months. So for renewables to be dismissed as bad investments by bulls of other energy sectors is not only wrong, it's quite hypocritical. Indeed, with the world's largest oil fields being depleted—some by as much as 15% per year—and natural gas facing a similar long-term plight, we're going to need all the energy we can get. And there's plenty of money in all of it. But you must realize, new oil discoveries, and even arctic and offshore drilling, are certainly no catholic cure. In fact, the amount of oil they're providing—and could potentially provide—is absolutely not enough to offset rising demand and oil field depletion, not to mention that oil is increasingly more expensive to extract. This is an often overlooked aspect of new oil finds. Yes, there's money to be made from the remaining oil and the companies that refine the ever more heavy and sour crude. And I'm not against making that money.