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AUSTRIAN EMBASSY GOT BUDGET INCREASE TO BUY VOLTS AS SECURITY WAS CUT FOR LIBYAN EMBASSY
Breitbart ^ | 11 Oct 2012 | MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

Posted on 10/11/2012 6:56:21 AM PDT by Snuph

The Washington Times is reporting that at the same time State Department officials were cutting security for our diplomatic stations in Libya, they were increasing the budget for our embassy in Austria in order to purchase Chevrolet's electric powered Volt: In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country. . . Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna [Austria] to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. The purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. Embassies. In fact, at a May 10 gala held at the U.S. embassy in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.” . . .

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: embassies; gm; libya; obama
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1 posted on 10/11/2012 6:56:29 AM PDT by Snuph
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To: Snuph

Kennedy @ state dept. is leading a project to “green” the state department.


2 posted on 10/11/2012 6:58:17 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Triple

Instead of blood for oil, it’s blood for batteries...


3 posted on 10/11/2012 7:00:10 AM PDT by Tuanedge (Warriors victorious in a hundred battles, flee when a tiger enters their tent.)
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To: Triple
"Kennedy @ state dept."

Nepotism replaces merit at the nation's highest levels.

The rot starts at the head.

4 posted on 10/11/2012 7:01:41 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Tuanedge

“Instead of blood for oil, it’s blood for batteries...”

POST OF THE DAY!!!


5 posted on 10/11/2012 7:12:13 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Snuph

Ambassador Stephens is dead and United Auto Workers is alive!


6 posted on 10/11/2012 7:14:57 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Snuph

Obama wants to burn all US Embassies to the ground one way or another.


7 posted on 10/11/2012 7:43:13 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Snuph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3

Must be the oldest commercial plane still flying.


8 posted on 10/11/2012 7:48:39 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Snuph

Anti-Austrian Economics....


9 posted on 10/11/2012 8:02:10 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Snuph

yep, sure sounds like the fault of the GOP, forcing all those electric cars on the State Department. HEY! Wait a minute ...


10 posted on 10/11/2012 8:10:06 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Why not eliminate the middle man and have whoever feeds Obama his lines debate Romney directly?")
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To: Snuph

Just some bumps in the road for a utopian mastermind.


11 posted on 10/11/2012 9:09:37 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Snuph
No money for more Security, but money enough to bolster up Obama Motors???

I sure hope the members of the Congressional Committee holding these hearings get ahold of this. No doubt they will.

All day yesterday, the Democrats were pounding away at the money issue being the cause for no additional Security and blaming Republicans.

How in the HELL can a (decent???) Democrat display such utter disgusting opinions. Are there any DECENT ones left, or have they all sold their souls?

Sic em Trey Gowdy.

12 posted on 10/11/2012 9:26:28 AM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: Snuph

Something wrong here:

I though the European countries had a different electrical current than the USA and that is why seasoned travelers take ‘convertors’ with them when they travel.

Now we are sending Chevy Volts to Vienna & installing a $108,000 ‘charging station’ to service the cars?

How were these Volts different than the ones being sold in America?

You cannot just ‘pulug something in’ that doesn’t have the same system.

I am totally confused.


13 posted on 10/11/2012 9:33:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

The Regime is sending to most embassies around the industrialized world along with the equipment necessary to convert the electrical current. In fact, if not for government purchases of volts the sales would not amount to .0001% of cars sold by GM.


14 posted on 10/11/2012 9:44:37 AM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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To: ridesthemiles

They found that out after they got the Volts, hence the $108+K charging station.


15 posted on 10/11/2012 11:08:32 AM PDT by Roccus
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