Posted on 09/10/2010 7:35:08 PM PDT by fightinJAG
A quest to get Barack Obama to shout his commitment to solar power from the roof tops - by re-installing vintage solar panels at the White House - ended in disappointment for environmental campaigners today.
Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, had led a group of environmental activists to Washington in a bio-diesel van hoping to persuade Obama to re-install a set of solar panels originally put up by Jimmy Carter.
The actual Carter-era solar panels - which weigh in at 55 kilograms and are nearly 2 metres long - are out-dated now. But campaigners had hoped that the White House would embrace at least the symbolism of going solar - much like Michelle Obama kicked off her healthy food movement by planting a vegetable garden.
"Clearly, a solar panel on the White House roof won't solve climate change - and we'd rather have strong presidential leadership on energy transformation. But given the political scene, this may be as good as we'll get for the moment," McKibben said in a Washington Post comment this morning.
A California company Sungevity had offered to equip the White House with the latest technology.
But the White House declined - twitchy perhaps about inviting any comparison to one-term Democratic president Carter in the run-up to the very difficult mid-term elections in November. The White House did send three staffers to meet the campaigners.
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“But the White House declined - twitchy perhaps about inviting any comparison to one-term Democratic president Carter in the run-up to the very difficult mid-term elections in November.”
More like he doesn’t want to make the same sacrifices he expects from the rest of us peasants. Carter, for all his nonsense, at least put on a sweater.
It seems the Democrats are stuck on old, worn out ideas. Solar energy has run into a ditch, and Barry keeps dropping his keys.....in front of Larry.
Of all the things to be worried about being compared to Carter on, good grief! The solar panels!
Talk about stuck.
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Obama has helped bring back Carter’s “misery index” so you would think he would be okay with the solar panels.
You know, when the environmentalists tell you that putting a solar panel on your house won't solve the problem, they really are having a problem with their sales pitch.
What’s next? Metric system to lower the sea level?
I have to say it again: it totally breaks me up that the braintrust in the White House thinks, dude, don’t put up new solar panels . . . someone might compare the boss to Jimmah Carter!!!
As if.
We just replaced a roof on a house that has solar panels as the prime source for hot water.
We managed to get by without a crane, but the cost to simply remove the panels and reinstall those same panels could have paid for 15 years of natural gas water heating.
Doesn’t even take inconsideration what it cost to install them in the first place.
Man, I never even thought about how you get those beasts down.
Barrack Hussein Obama first African American President of the Untied States has always required from the governed:
BHO needs to write a book about his struggle.
And if he could somehow use the racist viewpoint of a deliberately misquoted religious cult with unlimited funding, Barry might make national socialism work this time.
They were big, heavy, and we were on a steep roof. Plus, two units were connected together by a 3/4 copper pipe that couldn’t be taken apart so they had to be handled with kid gloves.
We had to have a licensed plumber, his helper, 3 laborers and their supervisor. The whole thing took several hours, plus travel time.
We broke about 700 OSHA rules just to keep safe and get home the same day we started.
Chuckle!
P.S. I’m not even going to ask you what you went through to dispose of the things!
We didn’t dispose of them, we removed them, installed a new roof, and then re-installed them.
Just a bunch of nonsense in my book, but then I wasn’t writing the check.
Oh, good grief. Well, I hope you were well-paid for your honest labor.
Oh good grief, maybe Al Gore could use them on one of his mansions.
“Carter, for all his nonsense, at least put on a sweater.”
Yes, Carter was not particularly hypocritical, and I usually defend him on that (one) point.
“the cost to simply remove the panels and reinstall those same panels could have paid for 15 years of natural gas water heating.”
Which is why people don’t generally do it unless it is HEAVILY subsidized. Like my friend. He got so many tax credits and incentives that it paid for itself rather quickly. But that’s the only way, which means it is not yet a viable industry.
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