Obama, Clinton Foundation Donors Sold ‘Green’ Fuel to Military for $149 per Gallon

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 8/12/2015 | Ali Meyer

[GoneSalt]

The CEO and Board of Directors of Solazyme, a company the military paid $149 per gallon for “alternative” fuel, have donated more than $300,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

Recipients of significant donations included the Obama Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee. Additionally, Solazyme donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report found that the Department of Defense (DOD) paid Solazyme $149 per gallon for fuel made of algal oil, costing taxpayers a total of $223,500 in 2009. The group also received a $21 million stimulus grant from Department of Energy in 2009.

[GoneSalt]

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[GoneSalt]

Related: U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels 10/10/2010 /NP

[Doogle]

..just another massive kick back scheme we all come to know

[silverleaf]

and complained we spend too much on the defense budget

[Revelation 911]

wait - the numbers don’t make sense

donated between 100 $ 250k

sold $223,500 = 1500 gallons

oh but wait - the diamond...$21 mil stimulus grant....there’s the payoff

[Mr. K]

what in the G.D. effing EFF ????

SHOOT THEM NOW.

I am working two jobs, 70 hours a week, to pay for my kids college, and $40K of my money is going to the government in taxes, and they are PULLING THIS CRAP????????????????

[showme_the_Glory]

$149 per gallon for fuel made of algal oil, costing taxpayers a total of $223,500

not to be confused with algore oil. That stuff's waaaay more.

[elcid1970]

Solazyme: “So lazy me”

Was that the name of the idiot who authorized buying this `green fuel’?

[Nachum]

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[Obadiah]

The corruption in this country rival that of any third-world African country. And the MSM stay quiet, not raising a fuss to protect their people.

Just try to fathom if this were done by Bush. Just try to imagine the EPA under Bush release millions of gallons of toxins in the Colorado River. Just try to imagine the wall-to-wall outcry versus...silence.

[Vigilanteman]

With the grant, that is over $21.2 million in return for a donation of $300,000. Where can I sign up for $70.75 return on a dollar invested?

[GeronL]

Much of the left’s funding comes from government. I think people would be shocked.

[SandRat]

Must be GREEN FUEL, with all the GREEN BUCKS it produce for them.

[ptsal]

CROOKS
CROOKS
CROCK

[kallisti]

From the government means from us: we are buying the rope.

[Steely Tom]

Remember all the screeching about Halliburton and the $7/gal gas they were delivering into a war zone?

[dadfly]

bookmark

[Fiddlstix]

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[Leep]

Its part of the divorce settlement.

America vs THEM!:
You, the American people, are hereby order to maintain the lifestyle they have become accostomed to.

[Intolerant in NJ]

And hence the need to dupe the public into believing in “Global Warming” (which sadly seems to be working - just saw a panel discussion on C-Span which mentioned a poll of “millennials” which showed that the biggest concern of their group, at 44%, was Climate Change) - such scare tactics make it easy to take the government and private business for big bucks to fight a non-existent problem....