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Obama's Solar Nightmare
American Thinker ^ | January 17, 2011 | Ed Lasky

Posted on 01/17/2011 8:56:45 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike

The Democrats have been busy the last two years, and not just reengineering the healthcare industry, restructuring the auto sector, assaulting Wall Street and the financial sector, harming our public finances. They have also been trying to transform America's energy industry at our expense. This is Barack Obama at his worst -- picking losers and winners by personal whim, donations for dollars deals, and ideological zeal.

Who have been the losers and who have been the winners? And have the winners just been taking the taxpayers for a ride while their guy has been driving the bus -- with taxpayers sitting in the back?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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"He hails from Chicago, after all."
1 posted on 01/17/2011 8:56:45 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
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To: Hotlanta Mike
This is Barack Obama at his worst.

Barack Obama IS the worst. WHEN are more people going to realize he is the most anti-American, anti-free enterprise, anti-everything good and wholesome...

Not PRESIDENT, but PERSON. He and all his Communist friends.

I still say the new House of Representatives need to draft Articles of Impeachment. I know -- everyone says "...it'll never happen..." but that is beside the point.

They NEED TO DO THIS for the exposure it would produce and the spotlight that it would place on him!!!!!

2 posted on 01/17/2011 9:07:07 AM PST by Jerrybob
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To: Jerrybob

If they had the balls to do it they could impeach him on wire fraud during the election for, allegedly, receiving millions of dollars from foreign donors.


3 posted on 01/17/2011 9:12:59 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
So-called "Alternative" energy sources are a real pet peeve of mine.

Just because something works exceptionally well on a small scale - for instance, using solar power to heat hot water for your house - doesn't mean that it scales upwards to commercially or industrially feasible solutions.

Only a fool, or a politican (but I repeat myself), would make that stretch without asking someone who actually knows a bit about the engineering behind a system such as that. But this isn't about feasibility, I suppose. It's about lining the right pockets with the right amount of cash.

4 posted on 01/17/2011 9:13:37 AM PST by wbill
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To: Hotlanta Mike

It is worse that that. He is a saudi puppet put in the white hut with $700 million in saudi money that bought ALL media for 6 months before the coup in 2008.

America has far more energy than the middle east or at least the saudis. Hussein pushed this green fantasy to reward friends with windmills schemes or the one electric sports car that his SILLY-Con Valley venture capital pals invested in.

This is looting America and enriching your forign and domestic friends while destroying and bankrupting America.


5 posted on 01/17/2011 9:16:07 AM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: Frantzie

The list of impeachable offenses would indeed be long.


6 posted on 01/17/2011 9:16:48 AM PST by Jerrybob
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To: Jerrybob
And of course everyone is terrified to even SUGGEST that he MIGHT BE a bad president because they would IMMEDIATELY be called a RACIST!!!!!

And what conservative politician could survive THAT!?!?!?!?!?

7 posted on 01/17/2011 9:18:32 AM PST by Jerrybob
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To: wbill

Only a fool, or a politican (but I repeat myself), would make that stretch without asking someone who actually knows a bit about the engineering behind a system such as that. But this isn’t about feasibility, I suppose. It’s about lining the right pockets with the right amount of cash.


Green Energy is an opportunity for a new generation of Robber Barrons to rise with an assist by the politicos. This is only possible after a lengthy effort of indoctrinating our youth in the public school systems under the influence and direction of environmental wacko organizations.

It’s about green alright...greenbacks, and lots of them.


8 posted on 01/17/2011 9:24:19 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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Nazism at destructive agenda..

Commienazi Bastard Administration.


9 posted on 01/17/2011 9:32:37 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Hotlanta Mike
"He hails from Chicago, after all."

CLICK ON EACH OF THESE TO GET A FULL-SIZE PDF OF IT: .

You can take the organizer out of Chicago, but ....

..AND FIND OTHER POSTERS HERE

10 posted on 01/17/2011 9:58:50 AM PST by FreeKeys ("The economy's on its knees. Let's put a bullet in its head." -- Obama, according to Fred Thompson)
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Obama does not like carbon; he boasted during the campaign that he would bankrupt coal power plants and that his policies would necessarily boost the price of power. Those words were ignored by much of the media, in thrall to the man they so wanted to win. When the rapture swept journalists into ecstasy who cared about little details here and there about Obama’s agenda?


11 posted on 01/17/2011 10:21:08 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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From the article

“Solar power subsidies have helped bankrupt the Spanish economy, and the very government officials who have peddled these schemes are backpedaling furiously to keep their jobs as their taxpayers rise in revolt. The government is slashing subsidies left and right, but may already be too late to save their economy. Meanwhile, at least one Spanish solar power company has found a temporary bandage to slow its fiscal hemorrhaging — the American taxpayer. Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorksi, who was not reelected in November, has a nephew who “worked” for the Spanish solar company Abound. Somehow this foreign company was blessed with a 400 million dollar federal grant. Abound will probably join its rivals in Spain into ruin — the Spanish landscape will be littered with uneconomic solar power plants that will bear more than a little resemblance, metaphorically speaking, to the windmills of Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote.

Even the Spanish media have warned America that Obama is driving America off the green energy cliff. Other European governments are slashing solar tariffs as fast as they can as they to save themselves from drowning in red ink.


12 posted on 01/17/2011 10:24:20 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

From the article

“Many of the execs and investors behind these green schemes are Democratic donors and those who have toiled in Democratic party politics for years. Solyndra was another solar scheme that received 535 million dollars in federal tax dollars. The “investment” was widely touted by the Obama administration. The firm was chock-full of investors and executives who were generous Democratic donors and activists. One of its biggest investors was a big bundler for the Obama-Biden campaign.

Solyndra also closed one of its plants and laid off workers after gouging on the aid .

But wait... there is more. The hucksterism runs rampant.

Solyandra’s auditor could not issue an opinion that would have allowed the company to go public and for its investors to cash out. The reason? Solyndra was so badly run that doubts were raised regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. The backers may have lacked much as investors and scientists. But as crony capitalists, they excelled.”


13 posted on 01/17/2011 10:25:25 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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Solyandra’s auditor could not issue an opinion that would have allowed the company to go public and for its investors to cash out. The reason? Solyndra was so badly run that doubts were raised regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. The backers may have lacked much as investors and scientists. But as crony capitalists, they excelled.”


Calling Darryl Issa...

http://issa.house.gov/index.php


14 posted on 01/17/2011 10:53:48 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Frantzie; Hotlanta Mike

Recently he put a ban on WV’s coal industry so even their two dims Senators has mailed protests in strong words addressed to the pResident in the W-hut!!!


15 posted on 01/17/2011 9:24:11 PM PST by danamco (-)
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