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Obama: Use 'algae' as substitute for oil
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Feb. 23, 2012 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 02/23/2012 12:39:19 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama admitted today that he does not have a "silver bullet" solution for skyrocketing gas prices, but he proposed alternative energy sources such as "a plant-like substance, algae" as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent.

"We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae -- you've got a bunch of algae out here," Obama said at the University of Miami today. "If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we'll be doing alright. Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America."

The Department of Energy (DOE) currently spends about $85 million on 30 research projects "to develop algal biofuels," according to the White House, which announced that Obama is committing another $14 million to the idea.

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KEYWORDS: algae; gasolineprices; obamaenergypolicy; obamagasolinespeech
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1 posted on 02/23/2012 12:39:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
President Obama admitted today that he does not have a "silver bullet" solution for skyrocketing gas prices

I do.

Allow more drilling.

Rescind your refusal to permit the Keystone pipeline.

You're welcome, President Obama. No no no, don't try to hire me, I'm happy where I work.

2 posted on 02/23/2012 12:41:33 PM PST by Lazamataz (If unemployment helps the economy, like the W.H. says, then CONTRACTING CANCER MAKES YOU HEALTHIER!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Words simply can’t describe whatever this thing is we have in the White House right now.


3 posted on 02/23/2012 12:42:00 PM PST by sydbas
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To: Free ThinkerNY

boob


4 posted on 02/23/2012 12:42:43 PM PST by albie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

High gas prices IS his energy policy.

Along with high electric and natural gas prices.

His whole agenda is based on artificially raising the prices of energy via government regulation in order to make his “green” energy boondoggles cost competitive.

How long are people going to put up with this idiocy?

A 40% annual inflation year after year in the cost of electricity/natural/gas/automotive fuel isn’t enough to wake the clueless sheep like American voters to the economic idiocy of the “green” movement and their mindless puppets the US Democrat Party


5 posted on 02/23/2012 12:43:08 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: sydbas

How about the morons standing there, taking down every word, like the animals in the jury in the Red Queen’s court? He’s the smartest one in that room. Frightening, isn’t it?


6 posted on 02/23/2012 12:43:48 PM PST by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Algae is a ‘plant-like’ substance as he is a ‘human-like’ substance............


7 posted on 02/23/2012 12:43:48 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Believe it or not,...

Not.

8 posted on 02/23/2012 12:44:26 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Renewable
Carbon Neutral
Whale Oil


9 posted on 02/23/2012 12:44:31 PM PST by null and void (Day 1129 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I was expecting him to propose astral projection as a way to get around the high price of gas.


10 posted on 02/23/2012 12:45:42 PM PST by rbg81 (scillian's)
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To: sydbas

This fool is starting to sound like a sci-fi B movie from the fifties.

Democrats are algae. Let’s use them.


11 posted on 02/23/2012 12:45:50 PM PST by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There is something mentally wrong with this idiot. I really can’t believe what I just read. Algae!?!?


12 posted on 02/23/2012 12:45:50 PM PST by cork
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ll give him a pass on this one. A Chicago politician could easily believe there is a limitless supply of pond scum.


13 posted on 02/23/2012 12:45:50 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: JoanneSD
IN 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama was campaigning he said the silver bullet to lowering gas prices was to keep your tires inflated ...and we would save enough gas to keep America in fuel
14 posted on 02/23/2012 12:46:20 PM PST by JoanneSD (TEA PARTY VERSES TEE TIME)
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To: MNJohnnie

Use [anything that isn’t really a viable energy source] instead of oil.

Thanks for the explanation of your energy policy, bammers.


15 posted on 02/23/2012 12:46:38 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well to be fair, Bush mentioned cultivating saw grass in a SOTU speech. Saw grass. Run the economy with saw grass.


16 posted on 02/23/2012 12:46:48 PM PST by SkyDancer ("No Matter How The People Vote There Will Always Be A Federal Judge To Over Turn It")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Algae. Let me guess, we’ll be seeing a Chevy Slime soon that runs on algae. Or is it the Chevy Scum?


17 posted on 02/23/2012 12:48:03 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: sydbas

Obama: Use 'algae' as substitute for oil

Why not? He has used it as a substitute for a brain for the past 3 years. So why not?
18 posted on 02/23/2012 12:48:43 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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To: Red Badger

“Algae is a ‘plant-like’ substance as he is a ‘human-like’ substance............”

I do see the resemblance to pond scum though...


19 posted on 02/23/2012 12:49:01 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"A Chicago politician could easily believe there is a limitless supply of pond scum.

Ba da bing! I laughed out loud!

20 posted on 02/23/2012 12:49:57 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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