Posted on 02/23/2012 6:00:07 PM PST by Nachum
Charles Krauthammer responds to President Obama's suggestion that the U.S. turn to algae for energy production. After making his case, Krauthammer goes head-to-head with Washington Post columnist Charles Lane who defends Obama's energy policy.
"I was impressed by the president's analysis of this situation where we have no control over the global price of oil," Charles Krauthammer said. "We're dependent on oil from unfriendlies. And he says, as we heard, drilling for oil to relieve our dependency is not a solution, it's not a plan. He said we have to go to clean energy. He talks about something really revolutionary today. Algae. A $14 million grant for the development of algae. It's not oil. His solution is algae. And because we know that the Secretary of Energy is physicist that won the Nobel Prize, the president knowing this stuff said that one of the reasons we should do this is because we can grow algae here in the United States."
"Now, it happens that algae will grow on anywhere on earth. I looked it up while I was away for those three days. You thought I was sunning myself. I did research. It grows in oceans, in lakes and ponds, in your swimming pool when the pool man is on vacation. In snow, in ice, on soil, on turtles, on sloths, the bark of trees and rocks. Why are we drilling for oil? We are the Saudi Arabia of rocks. We have a mountain range called the Rockies and we are allowing ourselves to be dominated by these oil producers. I think he's on to something here that is truly revolutionary. Why would you build a pipeline, the Keystone pipeline with real oil from Canada to put in real refineries and put in real existing
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I suspect you’re correct.
What’s it all about ... Algae?
It's no use; those who elected the muslim liar, stupid, dishonest, deceitful self-centered pig are too busy kissing His posterior to ever notice they just ran out of gas.
So cancel that pipeline from Canada that would send enough hundreds of thousands of barrels a a day from an ally.
Absolutely he was being sarcastic.
That’s why he ‘apologized’ for bringing the level of the conversation so low.
Krauthammer is D.C.-centric in a lot of ways but he was sneering at the commie-in-chief on this one.
"Tongue out of cheek," host Bret Baier joked.
"I'm sorry that I brought the level of discussion so low," Krauthammer joked back.
Yes, it was sarcasm.
I'll be back later to see how many morons respond to the title (and maybe the first couple of paragraphs) and take Krauthammer to task.
FRegards,
LH
An extra $14 million grant. Big Whoop.
That’s like what it costs to bring 14 land wells on line. Except the money will go to support his ACORN retread administrators and a couple of phoney companies set up by Chicago buds.
Guy is a delusional loon.
Krauthammer apparently does not do well with viewers who have a very limited attention span and capacity for understanding. Of course, I could reasonably guess that you never saw the clip, but seize any opportunity to criticize a conservative who does not agree with you 100%.
Duh. It’s a joke.
Kinder-Morgan wants to double the capacity of its existing pipeline to Vancouver. According to reports, China is already buying tar sands oil being shipped through this pipeline.
Transport Canada approved supertankers for the Kitimat terminal of the Gateway pipeline.
Actually my son-in-law who invents stuff had an idea like that a couple of years ago.
I wish he’d get on with it so my daughter would have money.
Which dictionary are you using to look up the definition of "sarcasm"?
WHAT are you smoking?
It was sheer SARCASM!
Many on this board seem not to recognize biting satire. It was a joke, jeeze.
He always sounds like a gaga-eyed untutored cornpone. "We need to invent stuff and things." "We'll be doin' alright." "...a bunch of algae out there."
Look, Ma! It's an algae!
Where, Elmer?!
Over there! By the pond, Ma!
Well, dadgum it, we'll be doin' alright, then!
WHOOOSH. That’s the sound of Krauthammer’s sarcasm flying right over your head. You weren’t alone by the looks of the thread.
It was “tongue in cheek” and very funny
There is little a narcissist can tolerate less than being scorned and laughed at. No comedian and few pundits have had the guts to do what Krauthammer did here, just shred Obama with sarcastic humor.
Sure ‘nuff, today’s big story is “The Memo” telling Obama no one’s buying either his Algae Solution or his booming economy story.
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