Energy
Agricultural • • Coffee
• • Oil • • Natural gas • • Heating oil • • Uranium • • Coal
• • Corn • • Rice • • Sugar
• • Cotton • • Wheat • • Soybeans • • Lumber
Other
• • Timberland • • Farmland • • Mines and mining
These represent just a few of the groupings and individual commodities. As the editor of Commodity Supercycles , I like to group commodities into six sectors. I then categorize each sector into subgroups that are generally organized by use…
1. Energy
a. Transportation fuels: Crude oil, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. b. Electricity generation: Coal, natural gas, and uranium. c. Heating and cooling: Coal, natural gas, and heating oil. a. Money: Gold and silver. (Gold and silver are also used in jewelry, dentistry, and even electronics. But their primary historical usage is as a store of value – money.) b. Platinum-group metals (PGMs): Platinum, palladium, and rhodium. (PGMs are used mainly in catalytic converters.) c. Other earth metals: Scandium, yttrium, and promethium.
2. Precious metals
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