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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CG6468 on December 16, 2011, 10:06:28 AM
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Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
Posted 12/13/2011 06:58 PM ET
Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon.
The massive Obama stimulus was supposed to generate millions of jobs, but the $535 million loan guarantee it gave to solar panel maker Solyndra on the eve of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy illustrated the fundamental incompetence of Obama's neo-Keynesian economic ideology.
Now we find the Navy partnering with the Agriculture Department to purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of alternative biofuel in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft — the biggest federal purchase of biofuel ever.
It's part of the White House's "we can't wait for Congress" strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, "we can't wait to go broke."
A look at the lucky seller of this environmentalist version of the proverbial $600 Pentagon toilet seat indicates that the move is not just wasteful, but ethically suspect.
Your tax dollars at work in blammo world.
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The biofuel will be used next summer by — we're not making this up — "the Great Green Fleet Carrier Strike Force" in exercises near Hawaii. (snip)
I wonder if they sell hammers to us, too (http://news.investors.com/Article/594703/201112131858/navy-biofuel-gate-latest-obama-green-scam.htm)
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Bio-diesel, another wonderful economically-unsound product that exists solely due to Government subsidies and tax loopholes.
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And how does this biofuel's performance compare to JP-5?
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And how does this biofuel's performance compare to JP-5?
If it causes similiar problems like it does in automotive uses...pray for the NAVY/MARINE pilots.
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...and the asshats on the Hill fiddle while Rome burns.
I'm so past the point of caring anymore. It just needs to collapse so we can rebuild.
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...and the asshats on the Hill fiddle while Rome burns.
I'm so past the point of caring anymore. It just needs to collapse so we can rebuild.
+1. My WTFmeter has already been pegged.