Posted on 03/16/2013 11:25:04 PM PDT by lionstar
LEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Envisioning cars that can go "coast to coast without using a drop of oil," President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline.
Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices. Citing policies that already require automakers to increase gas mileage, he said he expects that by the middle of the next decade, Americans will only have to fill up their cars half as often.
"We've set some achievable but ambitious goals," Obama said, speaking at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago
"The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices — the only way to break that cycle for good — is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil," the president said.
Friday's speech, with its focus on energy, was designed to draw attention to what the White House says is one of Obama's top agenda items for his second term. That focus, however, has been overshadowed as the administration and Congress work on an immigration overhaul, gun legislation and deficit-reduction measures.
Obama cast his proposal as not only a clean energy plan, but as one meant to create opportunities for economic growth.
"I want the next great job-creating breakthroughs, whether it's in energy or nanotechnology or bio-engineering , I want those breakthroughs to be right here in the United States of America, creating American jobs and maintaining our technological lead," he said.
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Zero is not talking about LNG to power vehicles either.
Zero is under the delusion that we can power a rollerskate with a couple of “D” cell alkaline batteries and get it to drive acros the country with a 1000lbs of adults in the passenger compartment.
Why? Because Obama says so. It’s for our own good.
Can’t charge batteries without electricity,but no coal plants, no nuclear plants... where is this magical energy coming from idiot?
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia:
“A study from the International Energy Agency last year predicted that by 2020, U.S. oil production will outstrip that of OPEC’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2013/03/13/energy-journal-opec-acknowledges-u-s-oil-threat/
But who ya gonna believe...Obama, or your own lyin’ eyes?
How dare you! do you know how much water that will waste by people having to the panels clean!/s
You can this ideal is from a person who has ever set foot on a construction site.
Why? Because Obama says so. It’s for our own good.
Leave the coal and oil where it is.
Spend money on windmill cronies instead.
It depends is what kind of mood the Takers are in, which usually runs in parallel with their EBT Card balance.
I can imagine an Obama car with a mast and sails, solar panels, a small engine running on $10/gallon biofuels and pedals for when all of the above aren’t working. Within easy reach are vehicles that run on abundant, clean natural gas, however, the global warming cultists will still have a fit because they would emit that evil CO2.
Or 50,000 lbs of freight on an 18-wheeler.
Guitar strings? Nipples and Binkies?
I don’t see the compressed air thing working very well,since storage and distance are a problem.
Though compressed air certainly can perform powerful work.
LOL!!!
“so that means the only viable generation source for that much electric power is nuclear.
Somehow I don’t see the greens going for that one, not that they’re known for actually thinking anything through to that extent.”
Actually, some of them have, in a big way. I think that many of the objections to our PRESENT nuclear power are valid - but we’ve learned a lot in 60 years, and if that was applied, nuclear would be safe, clean, and available very long-term (possibly hundreds of years), during which time SOMEONE is going to figure out fusion power.
My previous post in no way implies any support for the goof who is the subject of this thread.
Unless under the pressure of war, the government has an extremely poor track record on throwing money at a problem and producing good, or sometimes any, results.
tarp bailout, i meant.
Envisioning = Stoned
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