The Obama Regime energy policy is primarily about driving up the cost of fossil fuels to the point that they are no longer affordable so that we will have no choice but to turn instead to the so-called “green” or “alternative” energy sources of wind, solar and biomass. To that end they have tried to sell the idea that we must move quickly to convert to these alternative energy sources so that we won’t lose our competitive edge to China. Oh, yes; and think of all of the green jobs that will be created.
Much to the disappointment of the O-Regime, the Chinese government announced that it “would stop expanding its wind and solar industries, choosing instead to focus on nuclear, hydroelectric and shale …. as the energies of the future.” How about them apples?! Obama has been telling us that fossil fuels are the energy of the past and wind, solar and algae are the fuel sources of the future. As I’ve said in the past, I have yet to fill up my gas tank with wind, sunbeams or seaweed as Dr. K-Hammer quipped.
“It is getting tougher and tougher for the Obama administration to argue that somehow we’re in this big race for green power worldwide when the rest of the world seems to have decided that the race isn’t worth winning,” Daniel Kish, the senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller.
President Barack Obama, whose administration has held up solar and wind energy while stunting shale and snubbing hydroelectric, has deployed nationalist lingo, holding the specter of global Chinese green technology dominance as a driving motivation behind the administration’s expensive and embattled green energy subsidy programs. In his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama said, “I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.”
By halting wind and solar industry expansion, Kish told TheDC, “China’s just doing what every other country in the world other than the United States is doing. Years back, the president used Spain as an example [of green energy competition] … then Germany, then China.”
Spain’s green energy subsidies were found to have a cost of 2.2 jobs for every one created; and in Germany, the government announced this year that it is scaling back its subsidies. “It’s too damn expensive,” Kish explained, “and someone’s got to pay for it.”
Read the whole article here. Hat tip Rain of Lead.
Tags: Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden
Obama is not a major intellect, that is MSM myth.
But he doesn’t sit in a corner with a drool cup
under his lower lip either.
He is willfully destroying our economy, our culture,
our place in the world & our military.
He has a grudge & now he is getting even.
Every scheme the Regime has sold, or tried to sell to the American taxpayer has been a fraud. And, in true fraudster fashion, WE’VE GOT TO ACT RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! I’m glad to see the Chicoms leave him twisting in the wind on the solar/wind deal. The Regime has gotten so predictable. Anytime there’s a new policy initiative simply look for the lie because it’s not very far away.
@ huckfunn:
Obama has become something of joke with international
leaders.
They know that Obama is immature & blided by his own
percieved fabulousness.
Appeal to his hubris & you can roll him all day.
Related, I think.
RIX wrote:
I can’t wait to read what those leaders say about him in their books when they and BO-hole are out of office. Should be some juicy stuff. It’s not like they’ll pull their punches because they want to be pals with him.
@ Bumr50:
How approptiate that Arlen Sphincter is representing the Chicoms.
@ huckfunn:
It will be interesting to read them
Angela Merkel got his measure very early.
She forgot, or maybe not to say that “this is
off record,” speaking to a Der Speigel reporter.
BHO was not in office a year and she said “There is
something about him that I do not like.”
Sarkozy can’t stand him either.
Boone Pickens, famous corporate raider, says he has lost his a$$ in the wind business:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/11/t-boone-pickens-ive-lost-my-wind-power-jobs-are-oil-and-gas-industry
huckfunn wrote:
He’s a whiner, “Obama is not trustworthy, he threw me
under the bus.”
What did he expect? Snakes can’t trust each other.
Here’s the Joe Biden moment of the day.
yenta-fada wrote:
My heart really aches for T-Bone… NOT. A couple of things. (1) He was feeding at the bottomless trough of taxpayer money and (2) He’s got plenty of a$$.
The Omama camp: “OK no problem here’s how we spin it, Mooch, get on tv and say how proud you are of America’s ingenuity and how we are gonna lead the world in green energy and save the planet while creating enough jobs to have negative unemployment. Heck were gonna create so many new jobs were gonna need to being in 20 or 30 million new guest workers just to break even, and we the revenue we raise every one in the world can have free health care!
We just need 4 more years and an 80% tax rate… wait better make it 8 more years, yeah dat’s the ticket!
@ brookly red:
mark my words.
Patterico posts epic smackdown of Jazzy Goebbles
http://patterico.com/2012/04/15/charles-johnson-an-unlikely-crusader-against-racist-comments/
@ huckfunn:
I guarantee that someone close to Specter (or maybe even Arlen himself -- he’s pretty out there) lost their ass on an insider tip about “Chinese windmills” he received while he was still in office. He then missed the heads up to get out after he got booted.
Just a theory, but why does he care so much?
Most people litigating over discrimination are, you know, the ones who feel discriminated against.
Another Friday and another executive order from Baby Doc Baraq.
Obama appoints Soros-linked immigration advisor to lead natural gas council
@ huckfunn:
What was most noteworthy was that Pickens was being interviewed on MSCLSD or whatever that channel is. At some point, even Democrats have to notice the size of this scam.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
There aren’t already several agencies doing this?
Another “council”?
Jobs for angry leftists is more like it.
Bumr50 wrote:
I really can’t stand Specter, but in all fairness, he’s probably just using his name as a former U.S. Senator to send large legal bills to the Chicoms. I don’t really see it as any deeper than that.
@ huckfunn:
That makes sense.
STILL, it’s more proof that “professional politicians” never really go away, they just find new sewers.
Bumr50 wrote:
Another new Tzar with the job of putting an end to hydraulic fracturing is my bet…
Damn all this cheap energy and double damn the Folks that want it!!
Britain announced yesterday that it will not issue permits for any land based wind farms. This follows strong public protest by those impacted, including substantial royals. To add context, more than 20% of the capital invested in energy for the last decade or so has gone into wind. It has generated about .09% of the new electricity . This is a negative return of investment of 22,222% Meanwhile, the country side is infested with these ugly, noisy, wildlife killing machines.
Oh, and even with the announcement by the Brits, innumerable projects are already permitted.
@ pat:
Wow. Would you please share that link? Thanks.
@ brookly red:
After Moochelle said “This is the first time as an adult,
that I have been proud of my country” and “America is a
downright mean country”, he said that “Michelle loves
Anerica.” Say what?
Global Warming Dogma and the New Iron Triangle
The announcement was in the Daily Mail Here is a link to the story as reported by The Times of London.
http://thegwpf.org/energy-news/5466-uk-energy-minister-vows-no-more-wind-farms-on-land.html
American bridge building contracts going to Chinese firms that use CHINESE workers in the U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridges-roads-built-chinese-firms-14594513?tab=9482930?ion=1206853&playlist=14594944
Later Taters!
pat wrote:
The climate change minister? THE CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER? UK has a Ministry of Climate Change?!?!?!? BAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, wait… I guess the joke’s on me and all the poor sods in the formerly Merry Old UK.
@ huckfunn:
We have the equivalent in America, and she is even more powerful. Please follow this government link.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ccd.html
Note this is a division of government.
pat wrote:
It is truly outrageous, but not surprising that the EPA has a Climate Change Division and I am in the process of contacting my Senators and congressional rep about this utter fraud. However, we don’t have a cabinet level post for climate change as does UK. We have no Department of Climate Change or a Climate Change Secretary. I briefly browsed that EPA Climate Change site and it’s like reading a child’s fairy tale. We must put an end to this fraud!
@ yenta-fada:
no need to hire these guys:
http://www.americanbridge.net/AboutUs/timeline.php
@ coldwarrior:
Who won; you or teh Puti?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
As a supporter of science and (local) environmental causes, what the leftists have made of these institutions is nothing less than criminal.
huckfunn wrote:
puti.
she took all my money in the 5$ nassau.
Zimriel wrote:
Rush said it best: “The Four Corners of Deceit: Government, academia, science, and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit. That’s how they promulgate themselves; it is how they prosper.“
Forget global warming: Scientists discover glaciers in Asian mountain range are actually getting BIGGER
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2130184/Forget-global-warming-Scientists-discover-glaciers-Asia-getting-BIGGER.html#ixzz1s9X8iZLu
@ Zimriel:
Ain’t that the truth!!
My Dad grew up on a small farm in Minnesota in the ’20s and early ’30s and he’s the one that taught me to take care of the land we live in. Common sense conservation, not this whacked-out environmentalism we have today.
coldwarrior wrote:
I have no daughters, but one of my brothers has 3. I’ve told him on several occasions that bringing those girls from birth thru high school is but a tutorial on how a female can whipsaw a man. He doesn’t disagree. His eldest will be the valedictorian of her class next month and will attend UT in the fall.
@ Zimriel:
Hmmm.
They’ve done the same thing to “racial discrimination”….
I think I’m seeing a pattern…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Common sense???? I think that common sense has flown the coop with many people. Especially people who are running this government. It’s all about feelings and damn be the facts. We have a corrupt and rogue president because of voter fraud and people who no longer have common sense.
But a ray of hope if it goes by my sons and nephews and nieces. They are seeing that common sense has flown the coop and are not happy with it. They also are seeing that there is fewer communications with real people and my youngest son said just today there is a huge dis-connect with people inter-acting with each other now days.
LOL.
Specter live on CSpan2 at 8 to talk about his sh*tty book.
@ Lily:
I agree. There are a lot of young Folks that are not falling for the liberal lie. They’re our best hope. But do we have enough time left??
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I think so. You might be surprised they are very upset in the way this country is going. It is their future that is at stake. But I would say the younger generation is divided too. Depending on where they live. West Coast generation still believing some of the lies but even they are seeing the over-the-top crap of it all. This is only my opinion from within my family, 25 to 30 year olds who live on the West Coast they are still buying into the green nonsense. Those that live in the south believe it is all a bunch of horse crap and are complaining it cost us 100 dollars in gas for a small trip!!! I do believe there is a lot of hope with this generation though.
@ 14 John Difool: It must be a day of the week. Another Charles roasting taking place in glee. Lol