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Offline CG6468

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Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« 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
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Re: Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2011, 10:50:38 AM »
Bio-diesel, another wonderful economically-unsound product that exists solely due to Government subsidies and tax loopholes.
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Re: Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2011, 03:22:19 PM »
And how does this biofuel's performance compare to JP-5?
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Re: Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2011, 03:29:49 PM »
Quote from: marv on December 16, 2011, 03:22:19 PM
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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Re: Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2011, 06:05:46 PM »
...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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Re: Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2011, 09:49:54 PM »
Quote from: Full-Auto on December 18, 2011, 06:05:46 PM
...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.
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