Gingrich Says Obama’s Algae Policy Is ‘Weird’ and Could Take 40 Years

abc ^ | Feb 24, 2012 9:40pm | Elicia Dover

[Red Steel]

FEDERAL WAY, Wash.— Newt Gingrich has been hitting Obama’s energy speech since the president delivered it Thursday, calling the speech funny enough to be on SNL and ”something worthy of Leno or Letterman.”

Gingrich’s biggest talking point about Obama’s speech attacks the president for his embrace of investments in biofuels such as those made from algae.

He is referring to a point in Obama’s speech when the president said, “We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance known as algae.”

“Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17% of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America,” Obama said.

On Thursday night, Gingrich mocked the president’s speech in front of an Idaho crowd, by suggesting that he should take a bottle of algae with him and “go around and we can have the Obama solution.”

“And maybe what we ought to do at Newt.org is we ought to get t-shirts that say ‘You choose.’ Gingrich went on to suggest the slogans, ‘You have Newt: Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less. You have Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.”

Gingrich himself has taken a lot of flack on the campaign trail this year for presenting ideas that the other candidates have called “grandiose” and “zany.”

[jjotto]

Nanotechnology is being used to extract oil from algae without actually killing the algae. Several universities are working on this right now.

You can’t make this stuff up...

Is that little robots with milking stools?

[lucid discourse]

This brings to mind a couple of points about another socialist wriggle:

#1) During the great leap, Chou en-lai had the task to taste and approve a green roe like substance called chlorella, which grew in urine and contained some protein. According to Mao (2005) Chang/Halliday:429 this excrement provided a high proportion of the urban population’s protein;

#2) about the phosphate needed for Obama’s algae, during the same period with fecal matter in high demand, fights broke out when communal toilets were raided by rival villagers (ibid:422).

[GladesGuru]

“Is that little robots with milking stools?”

Hardly!

Think of little academented bachelor’s children squatting on milking stools busy milking the grant cow (AKA the taxpayers) as hard as they can.

[Dust in the Wind]

The infuriating/funny thing is the greenies refused to permit a coal fired power plant in western Kansas that was going to research this algae growing with the cooling water...5-10 years ago. Under the Sibelius regime.