Oil reaches $100 a barrel: Five winners, five losers

With gasoline now at $3.37 per gallon – 20 cents higher than last week, and rising daily – who is profiting from higher prices and who is not?

Winner: Exotic energy sources such as algae and cellulose

“Higher energy prices will benefit people working on the next generation of technology, not those using corn to make ethanol,” says Sander Cohan, an energy analyst at Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Wakefield, Mass.

“Corn and soybean prices are already pretty high in price.”

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