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Obama's Energy Plan -- Algae
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Posted on 02/24/2012 7:44:48 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama's Energy Plan -- Algae By Susan Jones February 24, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - "The American people aren't stupid," President Obama said on Thursday -- as he insisted that drilling for more oil on U.S. territory is "not a strategy to solve our energy challenge."

The president's solution? Algae, for one.

There are no quick fixes to the nation's eneergy problem, the president said, dismissing Republican calls for more drilling as a "bumper sticker."

"We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance -- algae," the president said at a campaign stop in Florida. "You’ve got a bunch of algae out here, right? If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be doing all right."

Obama said the nation could replace up to 17 percent of the oil it imports for transportation with "this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States. And that means greater energy security. That means lower costs. It means more jobs. It means a stronger economy."

Obama's mention of algae drew snorts from one prominent pundit.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algae; bhofascism; democrats; drillheredrillnow; energy; envirofascism; fail; fraud; gasolineprices; gasprices; greenfraud; nobama2012; obama; obamaenergypolicy; obamagasolinespeech; obamatruthfile; oil; thegreenlie
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To: Former Proud Canadian
If you take a look at this list, you'll get an idea of what I'm suggesting. There's nothing stupid about it. It's pure agenda...
41 posted on 02/24/2012 8:36:55 AM PST by bcsco
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama would know all about pond scum.


42 posted on 02/24/2012 8:38:47 AM PST by dforest
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To: Sub-Driver

Algae will work. The Planet essentially makes hydrocarbons from layers of dead algae. But somebody should tell The Dear Leader that it takes hundreds of millions of years, incredible heat & pressure. Maybe with the right catalysts you can short-circuit the process, but my guess is that you won’t get the long chain hydrocarbons that store the most energy.

My guess is that Obama slept through science class — if he ever took one.


43 posted on 02/24/2012 8:39:27 AM PST by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: MrB

Heh, if dear leader thinks people are going to go without those, he’s a bigger idiot than I took him for. When it comes to environmental nonsense and taking care of one’s family, the latter will take precedence.


44 posted on 02/24/2012 8:43:20 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Sub-Driver
All new GM Volts will now come with a fish tank and extension cord.

On the bright side, the EPA will never put algae-eaters on the endangered species list, as they are now a clear and present danger to our energy independence.

A Clear And Present Danger!

45 posted on 02/24/2012 8:46:44 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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46 posted on 02/24/2012 8:47:24 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

47 posted on 02/24/2012 8:49:27 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Isn’t algae an important piece of the food chain? Aren’t the environmentalsts worried about this approach?

Oh, I forgot, though - liberalism is a mental disease.


48 posted on 02/24/2012 8:52:00 AM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: N. Theknow
Dreams of My Fatwa

Hello Murder, Hello Fatwa, here I am at Camp Intifada..

49 posted on 02/24/2012 8:52:19 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bcsco

It is simple. America MUST become a third world country for the world government folks to have any chance at their prize. We are getting closer with each passing second that this administration is in control. Make no mistake, right now they are in control, of the government, the media, the schools, the churches, our food, our health, our very lives. Not our souls, though. Keep praying.


50 posted on 02/24/2012 8:53:01 AM PST by Josephat (The old claim your evengelizing people who haven't heard the gospel, but go to a Catholic country tr)
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To: Sub-Driver

51 posted on 02/24/2012 8:53:10 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

People are actually laughing at him for this. A few more of these and we may see the long-predicted Obama meltdown and crackup.


52 posted on 02/24/2012 8:57:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

53 posted on 02/24/2012 8:58:17 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Pikachu_Dad

I have already heard the first breathless enviro-whacko call a talk show and complain that Obama “wants to take all the plankton out of the ocean and burn it in our gas tanks, which will destroy the planet’s food chain!”

This is just TOO good!


54 posted on 02/24/2012 8:58:50 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama's next energy plan...
55 posted on 02/24/2012 9:09:08 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

So is Obummer’s bumper sticker for re-election going to say “Skim baby Skim” or maybe it will be “Scrape baby Scrape”!!! lol.

Maybe the Republicans need to come out with a campaign slogan that says...”We cannot skim/scrape our way out of this mess”.


56 posted on 02/24/2012 9:09:40 AM PST by copaliscrossing (Progressives are Socialists)
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To: Sub-Driver

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20115555-1/toilet-motorcycle-runs-on-human-poo-power/


57 posted on 02/24/2012 9:12:03 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AndyJackson
Good one.

I posted this on the thread about Verizon cancelling their Muslim TV channel:

OH, NO!

Does this mean no more....

Fatwa Knows Best?

How I Murdered Your Mother?

Hajji Days?

Allah In The Family?

Have Jihad Will Travel?

Quran As Folk?

58 posted on 02/24/2012 9:13:06 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Here are some additional interesting facts to chew on. And the list goes on; all geared toward dismantling the American economy, and creating government subjects of all (unless you're a senior and then you may not be welcomed into the new world order). The fact that all these policies have a similar, distrupting, affect on the American economy is proof it's not stupidity but a socialist elite agenda.
59 posted on 02/24/2012 9:20:28 AM PST by bcsco
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To: patton

6,200 square miles. Good luck.


60 posted on 02/24/2012 9:35:26 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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