Energy Will Be Obama's Waterloo: And it will all be his doing -- blaming Bush won't cut it anymore.

American Spectator ^ | 3.2.12 | William Tucker

[neverdem]

When President Obama suggested last week that we might eventually be replacing oil with algae, Mark Whittington of Yahoo suggested that the President had reached his "lunar base moment." It was an apt analogy...

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After spending a year failing to pass cap-and-trade, the Administration has doubled down with the Environmental Protection Agency, turning it loose on the nation's coal plants. The Sierra Club just celebrated the closing of the 100th coal boiler, with more to come. Just what this will mean for the reliability of the electric grid will be revealed this summer when electrical demand peaks. Last August, with temperatures at 110 degrees, Texas consumed a record 68,000 megawatts of electricity with only 76,000 MW of generating capacity on hand. Since then, the EPA has demanded the closure of 10,000 MW of Texas coal. The state has dodged the bullet only by going to court. Industrial states from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin are facing the same dilemma. If the region starts suffering power shortages this...

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At bottom, the real problem is what Charles Murray describes in his new book, Coming Apart --the growing gap between college-educated people schooled in the wish fulfillment of "green energy" and the hard-won, hard-nosed wisdom of blue-collar America. To the elite in New York, Washington and San Francisco, energy generation is something we're trying to put behind us. It's déclassé. Only in blue-collar regions like Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Dakota do the realities of energy become visible, tangible, and audible -- and taxable.

The good news for Republicans is that the battle lines are drawn. After a summer of $5 gas plus power shortages in industrial regions, the results of four years of Obama energy policies will be hard to avoid. And there won't be any George Bushes around to take the blame.

[lowbridge]

“A 2009 Los Angeles Times profile of company CEO Jason Pyle said Sapphire hopes to produce 1 million US gallons (3,800 m 3 ) of algae diesel and jet fuel each year in the next two years and 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3 ) of fuel a year by 2025. [9] More recently, however, in aanuary 2011 interview Pyle avoids stating precise production goals and advises to “never quantify productivity in terms of gallons per acre per year.”

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_Energy

A million gallons per year by 2011. Gee, I wonder what happened.

[Jim from C-Town]

I'm not so sure of that. He has not polled above 50% in months/years and this is with lots of manipulation by the MSM polling groups. He is a disaster for middle America and he will be defeated.

[Freddd]

Dude! you’re out of line- we’re all on this planet together.

Bush’s coal and oil poison is killing us.
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Uh, get with the times man. THAT’S OBAMA’S COAL AND OIL POISON IS KILLING US.

[wiggen]

Having been around then i can tell you that the daily humiliation of the hostages in Iran as well as the tragic rescue effort both played a very large part in Carters loss.

[Right Wing Assault]

Unless you're an experienced mountain biker internal combustion driving is a necessity.

President Dick Obama responds: Under my plan, people like you are going to either move to the big city or die. We are going to make it so difficult for you to survive, that you will cease to exist unless you do what I want.

[Right Wing Assault]

I have a title for a book: “How the Hell did Barack Obama become President??”

Lay it out step by step how our society has corroded to such a degree that more 50% of us voted for him.

[unkus]

It’s the dumbing down of America and the Communist Manefesto. The Communists have won to a great extent.

But I also blame George Bush. Bush had the intelligence on him and did nothing. Now we have an avowed enemy of the United States in our White House.

And a Marxist at that.

We’re now in a Marxist controlled or dominated Oligarchy.

Tha American “Nomenclatura” is now in place.

It won’t matter who is the next president except a Republican would slow down the train wreck a little.

IMO, of course.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[no dems]

After a summer of $5 gas....the results of four years of Obama energy policies will be hard to avoid.

I'll pay $10 a gallon from now until Election Day if it will get Obozo out of the White House. And I drive 60 miles round trip to and from work each day.

[no dems]

“How the Hell did Barack Obama become President??”
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One word: ENTITLEMENTS. 49 percent of Americans don’t pay taxes. They want a free ride for themselves, paid for by others. That keeps people like BHO in power. Add to that 49 percent, the ultra-liberal baby-killers, same-sex marriage proponents, environmentalist wackos and the Socialists. That’s a majority. I say it’s time for a friggin’ REVOLUTION.