Obama Pledges to Waste Still More Money on Electric Cars
Despite occasional posturing that only a fool would take seriously, Obama has made it clear that he has no intention of allowing a significant reduction in the monstrous deficit that threatens to pull us off the cliff after Cypress. That’s why he thinks America can afford frivolous wackiness like this:
Envisioning cars that can go ‘coast to coast without using a drop of oil,’ President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline.
Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices.
Under Obama’s rule, the “fluctuations” have been consistently upward.
Corrupt biofuel boondoggles have driven up world food prices and possibly consume more energy than they produce. Electric cars, due to the massive environmental damage inflicted in the production of their short-lived batteries and the fact that the electricity to run them has to come from somewhere, usually from burning coal, are not significantly better for the environment than more economically efficient real cars. If electric cars made any sense whatsoever, the free market would be able to produce them profitably without coercion.
As usual, Obama claims that this profligate waste will not increase the deficit.
The initiative, proposing to spend $200 million a year on research, would be paid for with revenue from federal oil and gas leases on offshore drilling and would not add to the deficit.
But even if the entire $200 million per year is stolen from consumers of efficient sources of energy, causing gas prices to “fluctuate” even further upward, the drain on the economy will reduce the tax base as it throws still more people out of work, further increasing the deficit.
Every penny the government spends on anything increases the deficit, just as every penny it spends makes us less free.
On a tip from Bill T.
Meanwhile…
Waiting for the rising tide.
Still going broke.
Cycle of stupidity.
No oil….
And what are ya gonna lubricate your horse($#hitless) carriage with, Barry?
Pig fat? Crisco? Maybe some Jheri-Curl?
Like the Occutard’s sign that said he didn’t need oil, he rode the bus.
Duuhhhhhh…….
Obamanomics.
Too little ,too late….VW listened to my suggestion
(and I specifically gave it to GM management)
and now will go into production for 260 mpg:
http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-xl1-most-fuel-efficient/26367/
We need a car that runs on HOT AIR then that would make OBAMA,GORE and GREENPEACE very usful
What $200 million per year from offshore leases? That money was spent during Obama’s first year in office.
Air Car Water Car Free Energy Fuel Motor Save Gas Best Engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSOvbsE460
Of course there’s always the old standby:
http://www.slideshare.net/hv920/horse-and-mule-power
WIKISPEED is a distributed team of engineers, researchers, enthusiasts, and passionate supporters that have collaboratively engineered and now builds the SGT01—an ultralight four-seat commuter car achieving 104 mpg combined (US EPA cycle simulation)
http://www.youtube.com/user/WIKISPEED
May I point out to Dear Leader that those rubber tires on your car contain about 20% oil? May I point out that the insulation around the electrical wires running through Dear Leader’s car also come from petroleum? The carpet on Dear Leader’s limo likewise comes from oil?
If Dear Leader is serious about that one drop of oil, he better re-evaluate how all those biofuels are grown and processed. I don’t believe that most vegetable oils are grown and harvested using horse and wagons, nor are the fertilizers applied from a completely natural source.
My opinion is: Dear Leader, you go first. No more gasoline for your car. No more jet fuel for your airplane or helicopter. Use a bicycle or walk.
And next month is EARTH DAY when all the eco-wackos get together to prove their out of their minds and stark raving stupid
I saw that car in London parked outside the Royal Institution (apt name)in Mayfair. This was the driver of the vehicle.
‘Cypress’? You had ONE JOB…
There are, IMO, some facts that the American sheeple still don’t get, and perhaps never will.
1) Their president is a pathological liar.
2) He couldn’t care less about the economy.
3) In fact, he’s doing exactly what his mentors, Cloward & Pivan, instructed.
4) His goal is to turn the US into a parasite state.
5) His other goal is the complete annihilation of the republican party and conservatism.
Yeah, why worry about those fluctuating gas prices when you can just rely on the skyrocketing electricity prices!
I’d love a high performance electric car – it would beat the pants off of any gas guzzler. I’m just waiting for “Mr. Fusion”, because it won’t be possible until then.
The Only thing I would like to Submit to The POS Prez for Electric is the “Chair”
Semper Fi
Won’t the glow from dear leader’s halo power the grid and all devices.
The fact that the left wants us in these tiny little death traps isn’t surprising. Don’t ever forget that the real goal of the green agenda is depopulation.
In their eyes, we are the problem. Getting us out onto the interstate in these things will help them get to their global depopulation goal.
How long do you think it will be before the copper thieves steal that bright colored yellow cable?