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Why President Obama is betting big on battery plants in Michigan,
MLive.com ^ | July 14, 2010 | Rick Haglund

Posted on 07/14/2010 3:47:57 PM PDT by KeyLargo

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1 posted on 07/14/2010 3:48:01 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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That industry is dead on arrival. The UAW will kill it.


2 posted on 07/14/2010 3:49:15 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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That industry is dead on arrival. The UAW will kill it.

....and if they don't, think of the ecological disaster that one of those plants is sure to cause at some point in the future either from true accident or negligence.

3 posted on 07/14/2010 3:53:30 PM PDT by Roccus (......and then there were none.)
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All the battery industry needs now is the technology to make batteries which can do the job ... My bet, it won’t happen in our lifetimes. Batteries are great for cell phones, but I notice no one wants to talk about what the car powering batteries will cost to manufacture.

Battery powered and flying cars come from the same science fiction liberal minds.

I also note, the jug eared jackass doesn’t want to tell people coal can be refined into gasoline and diesel fuel for the price of under $30 a barrel oil equivalent.


4 posted on 07/14/2010 3:56:39 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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To: KeyLargo

We aren’t counting on it to amount to much more than a money hole.


5 posted on 07/14/2010 4:01:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: KeyLargo
GW Junk Yard
6 posted on 07/14/2010 4:01:32 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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jug eared jackass

Me likee long time!

7 posted on 07/14/2010 4:02:30 PM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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Here in Michigan our legislature mandates ever larger cuts in production for coal and gas fired plants. At the same time, they deny permits for new clean coal fired plants, citing a “lack of demand” as the reason.

Meanwhile they approve permits for wind farms despite the lack of demand that prevents the building of clean coal fired plants.


8 posted on 07/14/2010 4:04:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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And who controls the raw materials? Ain’t the US IIRC.


9 posted on 07/14/2010 4:12:39 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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Anybody believe in same-day coincidences?:

“G.M. to Guarantee Battery in Its Electric Car”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2552693/posts


10 posted on 07/14/2010 4:14:31 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

I Believe China is the leader in rare earth metals mined.


11 posted on 07/14/2010 4:18:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: KeyLargo

No body wants the dog food the Won is selling.

NOBODY


12 posted on 07/14/2010 4:19:58 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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Truly renewable energy does not and cannot exist.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/27b49r6


13 posted on 07/14/2010 4:21:08 PM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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"Why President Obama is betting big on battery plants in Michigan, "

It's not the battery plants he's "big" on, it's union payback time. GM is going to be a disaster, so he's desperate.


unions


14 posted on 07/14/2010 4:25:30 PM PDT by FrankR (When we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants WIN.)
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Barack Obama will be in Holland Thursday to showcase a factory in an industry that holds promise for a brighter manufacturing future: advanced batteries that power electric and hybrid vehicles
Everything Obama touches turns to shit and blows up in his face...I hope no one is injured in the battery plant explosion.
15 posted on 07/14/2010 4:28:29 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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Detroit, is that in Michigan? hmmm ... you got some work to do.

Spread the word that coal can be gasoline ...


16 posted on 07/14/2010 4:28:57 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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Because battery manufacturing is so environmentally friendly, what with all those heavy metals and all.
17 posted on 07/14/2010 4:30:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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-- advanced batteries that power electric and hybrid vehicles --

Heinz has a large pickle processing and canning operation in Holland - I think it is, to this day, the largest such operation in the US, if not the world.

Stick dissimilar metals in a pickle, and voila, electric cell! Wire many cells together, battery!

18 posted on 07/14/2010 4:32:10 PM PDT by Cboldt
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re: Stick dissimilar metals in a pickle

All that’s left to do now is determine which works better, a dill pickle or a sweet gherkin. Scuttlebutt has it the next generation of these cells will use pickled pig’s feet.


19 posted on 07/14/2010 4:36:30 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: KeyLargo

Because he is a major league Clymer.


20 posted on 07/14/2010 4:38:53 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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