OBAMA SPENT $7 BILLION TO BRING ELECTRICITY TO AFRICA, FAILED MISERABLY

You can take any Obama policy and boil it down to "Billions wasted" and "ultimately unsuccessful".

One of his lesser known plans involved electrifying Africa. You can guess how that went.

When President Barack Obama made his first presidential visit to Kenya over the weekend, he visited not just his ancestral home, but one of the target countries in his $7 billion signature foreign aid initiative, Power Africa.
Launched in 2013, Power Africa aims to boost electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative has prioritized expanding the continent’s capacity to generate electricity, with an additional focus on small-scale renewable energy investments.

Obama + Green Energy + Third World Aid is such a surefire formula for success that nothing could possibly have gone wrong.

In recent years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to expand the grid across most of the countryside, leaving the majority of Kenyans “under grid,” or within a half-mile of power grid infrastructure. The same holds in several other African countries.
Yet the electrification rate in Kenya is still only 30 percent, and in our data just 5 percent of rural households and 20 percent of private businesses within a half-mile of the infrastructure have electricity. The low connection rate holds even years after the grid is in place.

At least, unlike most Obama policies, it didn't

1. Kill anyone

Someone I know who has worked on utilities projects on the continent of Africa has told me that as fast as they can erect poles and cable each day, the next moring the poles and cable are stolen without a trace. Local police to guard the projects only seem to make it worse. If they work round the clock, the section out of view, say two miles back will be gone.

They failed because Kenyans are siphoning off the oil from transformers and selling to street vendors to use as cooking oil... It lasts longer than regular oil.

Kenyan power companies have been facing difficulties keeping the lights on even in areas that are connected to the electrical grid, as vandals have reportedly been stealing oil from electrical transformers to sell to chefs as cooking oil.

According to Yahoo News, electrical transformers are no great difficulty for determined thieves, who are willing to climb 20-foot poles to get to the transformers and siphon off the oil that powers them. They can then sell the oil for about $12 per liter to chefs at cooking stands who use it to fry food. The oil reportedly looks just like regular cooking oil, but it lasts much longer. It is not exactly edible, though, as the transformer oil contains toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have been illegal in the U.S. since 1979. But still, chefs are using the stolen oil to make chips and other fried foods.

Dr. Esther Maina, a biochemist at Nairobi University, told Yahoo News that, “Consumption of PCB-laden chips poses a health risk to Kenyans in a country where health services are already underfunded and doctors are in short supply.”

At a loss for a way to combat the problem, Kenya Power is reportedly considering switching to transformers that don’t use oil. The oil-free transformers are much more expensive, but might last longer if no one is trying to pry them off poles to get at their oil.

http://www.thedailymeal.com/thieves-kenya-steal-electrical-transformer-oil-cooking/122814

Well, sure it failed miserably if you were expecting some results for spending seven billion dollars.

Let’s use a different metric. Let’s look at how happy this made Chris Matthews. We’ll call it the See How It Tingles scale.

So, on the SH*IT scale, how tingly did Chris Matthews get over this program?

I think Chris would get really tingly over this. I think it would be running down his leg....the tingles, not the SH*IT. Though that does happen at times.

So, always remember, when Obama does some stupid crap (and that’s an hourly phenomenon) bring it over to the Chris Matthews See How It Tingles scale and see just how much SH*IT Obama has put out this time.

If there’s a big pile by the shoe of Chris Matthews, then you know it was a good one.

“Even after the households in our study had paid in full for their electricity connections, it took seven months on average for electricity to flow for the first time. Once connected, households experience regular blackouts — sometimes lasting days or weeks — due to a shortage of maintenance staff and materials.”

Yes, billions of American tax dollars wasted in another African boondoggle to make the share the wealth crowd feel good about themselves. And the result? Another colossal failure. After all, it is Africa.

“$7,000,000,000.00 should have brought quite a few generators or aaa batteries. There are quite a few criminals and corrupt individuals around...apparently.”

(The Conservative Position) “That’s 5 desalination facilities, infrastructure to move fresh water inland which will create thousands of jobs, provide fresh water for millions, reduce global warming and at the same time prevent the oceans from flooding. Everything you as a liberal want.”

(The Liberal Position) “You are racist.”

Well, they're also raiding the transformers for the copper, so that plan won't do much good either.

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