Eleven government departments and agencies operate a total of 94 programs
Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget calls for $6.7 billion in funding for clean energy programs across the federal government, a $760 million increase over 2012 spending levels.
Posted on 03/15/2012 9:40:50 AM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama blasted his Republican critics Thursday for their resistance to investing in alternative energy sources, comparing their stance to the beliefs of those who thought that Columbus would sail off the edge of the world.
In another in a series of speeches defending his energy policies, Obama touted his push for green energy growth — including wind and solar power, electric cars and biofuels — as a way to help wean the nation from a dependence on foreign oil. And he mocked his rivals for failing to embrace his ideas.
“If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they probably must have been founding members of the flat earth society. They would not believe that the world was round,” Obama told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of students at Prince George’s Community College in Largo. “Maybe they would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who apparently said, ‘Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.’ ”
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Eleven government departments and agencies operate a total of 94 programs
Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget calls for $6.7 billion in funding for clean energy programs across the federal government, a $760 million increase over 2012 spending levels.
Flat earth society? Bacrock, you’re the jerkoff in the way when it comes to harvesting our domestic energy.
Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) is a lying punk.
I have no problem with the idea of green energy. Just don’t use my money to waste it.
Hey Obama: you lost half a billion dollars to that waste of a company Solyndra. Let me correct myself: you SPENT HALF A BILLION DOLLARS OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY on Solyndra.
See, maybe this clown Obama can spend his OWN MONEY on green energy. Then he can see what kind of return he’ll get.
Republicans, and conservatives in general, are pro-capitalism. Pro-freedom. If green energy were so kick ass, we’d invest in the stuff. It sucks, and so we don’t.
Eleven government departments and agencies operate a total of 94 programs
Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget calls for $6.7 billion in funding for clean energy programs across the federal government, a $760 million increase over 2012 spending levels.
Re: #3. Lolz.
You win! No one can compete with that post.
What a d-bag, he is.
Obama is calculating and manipulative. However, if he is not hell bent on distroying America/capitalism, he is incompetent and really kind of an idiot. Like Most Prog/Commies. its hard to tell sometimes.
The Volt is a perfect symbol of Obamanism and the green movement. Its an electric car that get most of its energy from coal fired generators. Beside that if 1 out of 5 people owned a volt it would fry our half antiqated grid.
Otherwise,Green equals one part quasi-science one part magic ferry dust, and one part angry radicalism.
Wasn’t the consensus or “settled science” that the Earth was flat at the time?
You do realize that’s a myth I hope. In Columbus’ day it was common knowledge that the Earth was a sphere; in fact they also had a very accurate measurement for the Earth’s diameter (actually the polar diameter only, slightly less than the equatorial). Conventional wisdom at the time knew that the Far East was too far west to sail directly across the ocean (check a globe if you doubt it). Of course what neither conventional wisdom nor Colombus knew at the time was that a huge landmass was to be found a reasonable distance due west from Europe.
This all sounds so similar to ethanol. In its beginning days, “gasohol” was touted as the fuel of the future to wean us off gasoline. But it wasn’t economically viable, yet, so was given tax breaks for years as it was developed and improved upon to see if it could become VIABLE. There were other technological problems to overcome as well.
Well, lo and behold, 30 years later, even with much higher gas prices, it still had problems and still wasn’t economically VIABLE, so the Dums in congress decided to MANDATE it to replace 1% of our oil usage.
Now, of course, Obummer has trumped all by bypassing the middlemen (developers and congress) and just giving away our money to these green companies whose energies wont make a lick of difference in our energy usage for at least 20 years, while refusing to expand drilling because “we won’t see any oil from those wells for ten years.”
This picture is not as bad as having 150 wind turbines light up like Christmas trees in your back yard every night.
It’s one of the dumbest looking things there is. Oil derricks dominating miles of rolling hills don’t look good either but at least you know that is sustainable energy when your looking at it. This field of panels that Obama is standing in probably couldnt power the White House for a day.
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