Why CAT Can Climb Even Higher By Jim Cramer About this article: It's like the SAT: Caterpillar is to alternative oil projects as Deere is to renewable fuels. But beyond Gators and mowers, Deere has very little housing-related, while, unfortunately, the domestic housing industry needs Caterpillars to do the job. What's happening today is a combination of a Merrill Lynch push for CAT and some big orders CAT is winning right now for oil shale projects. It has taken forever -- or at least it seems that way -- to get to the point where CAT is less levered to Toll and Lennar and more levered to Foster Wheeler and McDermott . But now it is happening in full force, and that should take CAT much, much higher. I like Deere up here because of the politics of ethanol, but I like CAT because of the economics of the giant infrastructure and fuel mining... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200. More Stories From RealMoney Durable Goods Up Move Down the Tech Food Chain Jobless Claims Still High Bulls' Tenacity Is the Big Question Mark Should You Buy It? Pharmaceutical Product Development Bad News Trumps All Support for Banks Holds, For Now Bummer, Yields Are on the Rise Money on the Line Makes a Big Difference Structured Products: Unsafe at Any Price MORE STORIES FROM REALMONEY

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