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Barack Obama: 'no' to solar panels on the White House roof (Hilarious Carter Theme)
Guardian (U.K.) ^ | Sep 10, 2010 | Suzanne Goldenberg

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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1 posted on 09/10/2010 7:35:12 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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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.


2 posted on 09/10/2010 7:39:35 PM PDT by DemforBush (You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
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To: fightinJAG

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.


3 posted on 09/10/2010 7:40:49 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: SERKIT

Of all the things to be worried about being compared to Carter on, good grief! The solar panels!

Talk about stuck.

hahshhahhah hahah ahhhahhahhhaaa


4 posted on 09/10/2010 7:42:25 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG

Obama has helped bring back Carter’s “misery index” so you would think he would be okay with the solar panels.


5 posted on 09/10/2010 7:43:27 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: fightinJAG
"Clearly, a solar panel on the White House roof won't solve climate change

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.

6 posted on 09/10/2010 7:43:47 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: fightinJAG

What’s next? Metric system to lower the sea level?


7 posted on 09/10/2010 7:47:28 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: boycott

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.


8 posted on 09/10/2010 7:58:11 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG

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.


9 posted on 09/10/2010 8:09:01 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Man, I never even thought about how you get those beasts down.


10 posted on 09/10/2010 8:19:40 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG
Obama has never been one to endure what he professes others should.

Barrack Hussein Obama first African American President of the Untied States has always required from the governed:

DO AS I SAY! NOT AS I DO!

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.

11 posted on 09/10/2010 8:20:25 PM PDT by highpockets
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To: highpockets
This explains everything:

Obama and his father's Anticolonialism.

12 posted on 09/10/2010 8:22:46 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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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.


13 posted on 09/10/2010 8:41:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years)
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To: Balding_Eagle
We broke about 700 OSHA rules just to keep safe

Chuckle!

14 posted on 09/10/2010 8:43:09 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

P.S. I’m not even going to ask you what you went through to dispose of the things!


15 posted on 09/10/2010 8:43:44 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG

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.


16 posted on 09/10/2010 8:49:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Oh, good grief. Well, I hope you were well-paid for your honest labor.


17 posted on 09/10/2010 8:51:36 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG

Oh good grief, maybe Al Gore could use them on one of his mansions.


18 posted on 09/10/2010 10:00:03 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: DemforBush

“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.


19 posted on 09/10/2010 10:00:43 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Balding_Eagle

“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.


20 posted on 09/10/2010 10:02:04 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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