Posted on 08/15/2011 9:53:55 AM PDT by MichCapCon
On Thursday, President Barack Obama brought Michigan more talk of cutting edge “green” technology and the future jobs he insists it will create.
Obama's visit centered on the Johnson Controls Inc. advanced battery facility in Holland. Two years ago JCI got $299 million in federal stimulus grants to convert a Holland warehouse into an advanced battery plant. This week the Obama administration announced $175 million in new federal grants to "accelerate the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies.” JCI is getting a $3 million piece of that funding.
“At a time when Americans are rightly focused on our economy, when Americans are asking about what’s our path forward, all of you here at Johnson Controls are providing a powerful answer,” Obama said. “This is one of the most advanced factories in the world. You’re helping America lead in a growing new industry.”
Obama visited Holland last summer at the opening of a LG Chem advanced battery facility, which is also heavily subsidized with U.S. taxpayer dollars. In a sense, regarding Thursday's appearance, the President had “been there before.” So has Michigan. The years when Jennifer Granholm was Michigan's governor (2003 – 2010) were dominated by the same promises.
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LLS
And where are we going to get the rare minerals from???
CHINA!!!!!!!! Who would have thunk!!
How many AAA batteries needed for his bus tour?
At a time when Americans are rightly focused on our economy...we’re wasting your money like it grows on trees.
Since when are Presidents battery salesmen? Unless he can clearly tie it to shared security (he can’t); he should let the market decide.
None of it's being built in Obama's Green factories though. That's all old fashioned stuff.
The irony - Very few things are dirtier than battery production and consumption.
Back when industry’s believed asbestos was a miracle material (it is, still is, and always will be) nobody could know that if you smoked, and worked around asbestos, the combo would cause agressive lung cancers.
It didn’t stop lawyers from sewing the industry out of business, of course.
Ever notice that we never had shuttle issues with heat shields until the greenies forced NASA to use different materials in the shielding process on the main tank and thrusters?
All this battery thing is doing is giving lawyers kids an industry to kill when they retire and pass them the firm.
obama was born behind the curve... he is truly dumb and nothing has changed since his birth.
LLS
Battery jobs will explode when we get batteries with roughly 10x the capacity per pound of present ones...and which are capable of 1,000 or more recharge cycles.
The Cretin-in-Chief wouldn’t know which end of the battery is the + side.
Heck, he doesn’t even know what the + sign means.
“Greenies” didn’t make NASA do that ~ it was their own too politically correct management team that did that.
I know, and it amounts to the same thing. Infiltrators, if you will.
http://www.homemadeenergy.org/
Interesting site, teaches ya how to make your own solar panals and batteries.
Week end project stuff
dirt cheap.
http://www.homemadeenergy.org/
Interesting site, teaches ya how to make your own solar panals and batteries.
Week end project stuff
dirt cheap.
http://www.homemadeenergy.org/
Interesting site, teaches ya how to make your own solar panals and batteries.
Week end project stuff
dirt cheap.
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