New York s HESS CORP. (HES, 59) is a solid second-tier integrated oil-and-gas firm with scores of gas stations across the eastern U.S. It s got 1.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent reserves (versus 17.2 billion at Exxon).
The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.