Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The Volt Administration - Mona Charen
I can understand that we'd like to know if non-fossil fuels are a viable alternative.
I also think than in a serious national security crisis, the military would have a priority and never be without whatever fuel they needed...
I also think than in a serious national security crisis, the military would have a priority and never be without whatever fuel they needed...
Mona Charen reports this and more at Townhall.com:
"It seems that, fresh from its success with Solyndra, the Obama administration is slated to spend $12 million to buy a biofuel/gasoline blend that runs $15 a gallon to power a portion of the Navy's fleet in a demonstration project.And then, there's this...
'We are doing this for one simple reason,' explained Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, 'It makes us better war fighters. Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy's ability to protect America and project power overseas.'
Really?"
From Investors.com:
"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.
As J.E. Dyer noted over the weekend on the Hot Air Green Room, 'a member of Obama's presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a 'strategic advisor' at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked — shock, shock — on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.'
Solazyme had already gotten a nearly $22 million chunk of change out of the taxpayers thanks to the 2009 stimulus."
