http://suprastock.blogspot.com/2010/06/4-stocks-and-etfs-for-... http://suprastock.blogspot.com/ Plains Exploration & Production (NYSE: PXP), recent price, $23.59 - Although Plains does have some offshore interests - including a new exploration project off Vietnam - the bulk of its 359 million barrels of oil and oil-equivalent reserves is in California, the Gulf Coast region, the Mid-Continent Region and the Rocky Mountains. The Houston-based company had trailing 12-month earnings of $1.42 a share and the recent price is near the bottom of the 52-week range of $19.28 to $36.60. Another interesting sector play combines oil with one of the growing alternative-energy sources - wind.