it's lagged -- chevron made an all-time high today where conocophillips still lags.to the canadian oil sands, and i think they can, and that's the bet, this stock should go much higher than current levels. >> yes, perhaps it could go higher if they find oil, and, you know i guess jed clampett might be the company as well. with the refineries space, the emp space, is there is plenty of oil. there is tons of oil out there. not only, that gasoline demand is decreasing. the refiners in this whole space is now hitting what people are calling the blend wall where you have to blend certain amount of ethanol into your gasoline. but there is not -- you don't need as much ethanol as being produced. so you have ethanol credits going through the roof. the crack spreads going through the roof. but that's not necessarily indicative of good things for this particular sector. >> can i change my posture -- no i'm kidding. >> don't you want to rebut anything that bk has to say? >> his points are all valid, and they make a lot of sense. one of the reasons we were talking about the refi

when you look at a stock like conocophillips, th's yielding about 4.5%. going to be expanding production over the next five years so they actually have the capability to increase that dividend we think pretty substantially over the next five years. you know, the financials have done pretty well as of late, but if you look back to where with they were at their highs when the s&p was back at their highs in 2007, they're still down about 50%. and they've got everything in their corner right now. interest rates are starting to rise, which will definitely help them. property values are stabilizing. if you look at the case like a lincoln national, variable annuities, one of their biggest growth arias, they're one of the only major players left in that area. as you see the market stabilizing that will benefit those companies as well. >> great advice who don't share exactly the same view of the market. you reflect our viewership. thank you very much. want a great return on your investment? check out what your tax dollars could bring you. >> this kind of spending

the country's oil industry in 2007 caused big oil companies to pull out but will companies like conocophillips exxonmobil return righ now? we have an all-star "money" power panel with the answers. we have a former u.s. ambassador to venezuela. roger noriega is with the american enterprise institute and a former u.s. ambassador to the organization of american states. we've got stephen schork of the schork report. welcome to all of you. jeffrey, let me start with you because a lot of this, to me, comes from whether or not the people are satisfied with the conditions they are living in right now. you know they were willing to, seemed to me, deal with it and put up with it because they believed in chavez. do you think now they look around and say, our quality of life is not that great, we need a change? or do they not, i don't know, see what they're missing? >> well, i think there is, you really hit the most important question. and we're going to find out in one way or another, probably within the next month. because the answer to a lot of the questions that we have, for instance that one whether

guy actually won a street fight a while back on conocophillips and the argument was people are lookingrig do? they look for oil and there are some head windos in the space. >> let's see who you guys voted for on twitter. and you guys voted for valero. sorry, the winner's still rig. >> wait a second -- hold on -- >> they're the tie breaker. everybody's equal. you are equal to the viewers out there, guy. >> you know what, given the choice, i'd rather be equal with the viewers because that's how i roll, mel. >> buddy, you've got a little something on your nose right there. clean that up. >> to say the full bracket of all the stocks in play, log on to fastmoney@cnbc.com and you can get in on the action by tweeting us at cnbc.com/fastmoney. there'll never be a tie once again because you out there are the fifth trader. >> it's nice, mel. >> yeah, it is. >> you out there. you, by the way, a female deer. guy, how are you doing? >> trading your tweets, find out which ones made today's "fast money" cuts. ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the w

it's a renaissance for our country, certainly for our industry, and for our company as well at conocophillips there's an opportunity to generate a couple of trillion of dollars in tax revenue over the next 20 years. there's opportunity to generate millions of additional jobs. >> well, believe it or not, joining us right now is former nfl quarterback drew bledsoe. he's an investor in a company called ecosphere, which is making a big bet on fracking, and more specifically, drew, it's about the cleaning of the water that's used in the fracking process. it's an environmentally clean process, which has a lot of people worried about the impact fracking has on the environment. this is a possible solution, i guess, yes? >> it is, exactly. i help lead an investment group and funded some brilliant scientists down in florida actually a few years ago. our technology uses no chemicals. we actually in the past since 2008, we've cleaned over 2.8 billion gallons of water, which has eliminated 1.3 million gallons of chemicals. we allow these companies to, first of all, clean the water before they use it the f

conocophillips is in the green right now.t, a lost raw materials stocks are doing very well and some commodity prices continue to rise. take a look at crude oil for example. here we have it, intraday highs right now, guys. mirroring $97 a barrel. don't forget there has been a changing of the tide in the crude oil market. it had been lower for quite some time. it is getting a nice bounce back. this is weekly chart, guys. when oil does well, a lot of big energy names do well and tracy and ashley, then a lot of the s&p 500 companies do very well. ashley: yeah. >> hence, we could see a record. tracy: and i hope we do. thank you, girl. ashley: put your hand down on that one, with authority. thank you very much, sandra. if you're looking for a way to make fast cash, who isn't, we can tell you how to make $6,000 standing around. tracy: oh, my god, doing that. look at winners and losers on the s&p 500. sandra smith was just talking about it. we'll be right back >> announcer: you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity an