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Obama Called Conservatives Hypocrites on Solar Energy and Free Markets. Here’s What He Got Wrong.
The Daily Signal ^ | August 25, 2015 | Nicolas Loris

Posted on 08/26/2015 10:18:45 AM PDT by detective

President Obama is having a hard time with the definition of free market.

The most recent example came from his remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit, an event hosted by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to promote solar power.

Obama told a crowd in Las Vegas that solar and renewables now make economic sense and blasted conservative think-tanks for being insincere when it comes to the free market. He said, “Now, it’s one thing if you’re consistent in being free market. It’s another thing when you’re free market until it’s solar that’s working and people want to buy and suddenly you’re not for it any more.”

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


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: energy; obama; solar; solarenergy
Obama is name calling again. He is also lying. Harry Reid is lying too.
1 posted on 08/26/2015 10:18:45 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

“Here’s What He Got Wrong.” Uh, everything?


2 posted on 08/26/2015 10:22:20 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: detective

Hey. Just GFY zer0 you Marxist/Islamofacist phony!


3 posted on 08/26/2015 10:24:57 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: detective

Why did they not have the Solar Power worship service in Seattle? Lots of “Greenies” there!

Oh, right, it rains a lot and is CLOUDY in Seattle!


4 posted on 08/26/2015 10:25:29 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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To: detective

To such as Hussein, free markets mean that when the Guru proclaims what the future holds all the entrepreneurs must jump on the guru’s bandwagon or they be fools or thieves.


5 posted on 08/26/2015 10:25:38 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Why did they not host the “Windmills will save Our Planet” kumbaya fest on Martha’s Vineyard? Many of the Great & Powerful Who REALLY CARE about the EARTH (GPWRCAE) spend a good deal of time on Martha’s Vineyard.

Oh, right, NIMBY, led by the GPWRCAE, shot down the windmill farm 12 miles away!


6 posted on 08/26/2015 10:31:05 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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To: BwanaNdege

Obama completely missed the conservative plan to power industry with baby seal skins and bovine flatulence.


7 posted on 08/26/2015 11:14:47 AM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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Free Market: When it works, people will buy it.
0bamamarket: Force people to buy it long before it works, use a crazy pay structure where it's free for some and costs 3x+ for others. Fix problems later, maybe, but mostly deny any problems exist.

Sounds familiar ... Oh yes, 0bamacare was also like that.
8 posted on 08/26/2015 11:57:06 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: detective
"...It’s another thing when you’re free market until it’s solar that’s working and people want to buy and suddenly you’re not for it any more.”

What a dumb@ss. If I thought solar, or any other alternative energy could become profitable in a self-sustaining way, and if it could match mainstream energy sources in terms of cost and reliability, I'd be ALL for it. And I'd invest in it.

But for now, the only way that solar can compete is by government subsidizing it, or by government making its competitors more costly to producers and consumers.

9 posted on 08/26/2015 11:58:27 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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