August 17, 2011

"Direct federal subsidies to alternative energy increased 186.6 percent 2007-2010"

Yes we did!

Posted by Jeff G. @ 1:47pm
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  1. sdferr says August 17, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Why does government hate eagles and other raptors, anyhow? Puzzling, that.

  3. A fine scotch says August 17, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Jeff, I’ve just lost 2 comments. Will you post the first (if you can find it in the ether)? The 2nd was a re-post of the 1st. Thanks!

  4. happyfeet says August 17, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    oil and gas are good alternative energy sources to the expensive gay obama energy

  5. Mikey NTH says August 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    I don’t know about this solar power; I mean, being out in the sun makes me kind of sleepy.

  6. cranky-d says August 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    They can build big hamster wheels for people, and we can all walk in them every day for a fixed amount of time. That way we would get our daily required exercise and our daily required contribution to “the people” in at the same time.

  7. cranky-d says August 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    The hamster wheels would be hooked up to generators. That’s key.

  8. Squid says August 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Wind subsidies went from $476 million in 2007 to $4,986 million in 2010. Of the 2010 amount, $3,556 million was in direct payments.

    By contrast, expenditures for petroleum & natural gas went from $2,010 million to $2,820 million, almost all of which was in the form of “tax expenditures” (kill me now!).

    So the next time some greenie starts harping about “payoffs to the oil companies,” feel free to let them know that the Dept of Energy is spending way, way more time writing check to General Electric for their shiny windmills. You might also remind them of what GE’s tax bill was.

  9. Mueller says August 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    Woulda been cheaper just to burn the money.

  10. mojo says August 17, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    “Makers of large-scale eagle choppers laugh all the way to the bank.”

  11. Enrak says August 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Solar is the wave of the future!

    Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy, plans asset sale

  12. Enrak says August 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    Damn. Sorry for double-link A fine scotch.

  13. Squid says August 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    They can build big hamster wheels for people, and we can all walk in them every day for a fixed amount of time.

    We can all walk in them? Screw that! How ’bout if we just unplug all the Section 8 housing from the grid, and if our activity-challenged neighbors want to watch TV and keep the lights on, they can hop on the treadmill themselves. Might even keep some of them from needing little electric scooters as they get older.

    I hate those scooters. Adds 4 minutes to my bus ride every time we have to pick one up or drop one off. Why is it that some Medicaid scammer has to be buckled in to the city bus, when the rest of us ride around unbuckled every day? Don’t even get me started on school buses. Just one more way the grannies get all the breaks, while the kids get shafted.

  14. cranky-d says August 17, 2011 at 4:15 pm

    We can all walk in the giant hamster wheels for the glory that is Teh Won! All hail, etc.

  15. McGehee says August 17, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    All glory to the Hypnotoad Teleprompter!

  16. Seth says August 17, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    I don’t think y’all understood…”green energy” refers to Obama’s aura. Spending on that is way up.

  17. happyfeet says August 17, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    the thing to remember I guess is that this sort of obviously fucked in the head misallocation of resources will be low-hanging fruit for President Perry to pick come 2013

  18. B. Moe says August 17, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    I don’t have a link to it at the moment but didn’t GE just move a big x ray manufacturing operation to China?

  19. Pablo says August 17, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    They moved the HQ, B Moe. http://tinyurl.com/3e3nhaj

    115 years is long enough to be American, I guess, and I hear China’s nice this time all year. Say, how is Mr. Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness coming along? Anyone heard?

  20. happyfeet says August 17, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    failshit America is behaving eerily similar to Venezuela as the Obama regime attempts to nationalize Exxon’s oil discovery to the glory of the state

    The possibility that Exxon could lose this oil will likely send shock waves through the industry. “This is unprecedented,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, associate director of the Energy Program at Rice University in Houston. “The question is: Do our offshore rules allow for flexibility? You don’t want to let companies sit on a discovery… We definitely don’t want to send the industry a message that you need to be in a rush or we’ll take the oil away from you.”

  21. Pablo says August 17, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    Oh, don’t be silly, ‘feets. We’re not crazy enough to want to be Venezuela’s best customer! We’ve gone in on Brazil.

    Fundamental transformation. People don’t say that enough.

    “Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” – M’chelle O’Bomber, May ’08.

  22. sdferr says August 17, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    “…we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.”

    Wouldn’t mind seeing her move to a different place. Like Resetland, maybe. They could use her help.

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