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To: bestintxas
Solynda which was awarded more than $500,000 in federal stimulus loans in 2009 to make solar panels in what the Obama administration called part of an aggressive effort to put more Americans to work and end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Here you can see the ignorance and stupidity of the Obama administration. Solar will do next to nothing to end the dependency on Foreign Oil. Solar Energy only produces electricity and also can be used to heat water. 70% of Oil is used for Transportation. 25% of oil is used for other industrial purposes; chemicals, paint, etc. Only 2% of electrical energy is derived from oil. Most of that is in Hawaii or used for portable generation and the like. A construction site might use portable generators until they can hook up to the grid. Also hospitals and other facilities need diesel generator backups.

So Solar Energy doesn't do very much at all to decrease our dependency on foreign oil. But the public doesn't know this. And when people tell them that these subsidized companies are helping to reduce our dependency on imported oil, the average person will believe them. Outrageous.
20 posted on 09/08/2011 12:17:02 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: truthguy

I often ask why, if “Big Oil” is so evil for “gouging” us with oil prices,

Then why are these “Green” energy companies heroes for charging even nore for energy plus they get subsidized by us?

Because all liberals know how to do is waste money.


23 posted on 09/08/2011 12:21:43 PM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: truthguy

I was talking to a liberal shoestring relative this weekend and we got on the subject of solar energy. He actually thought wearing “solar panels” would be a good way to produce clean energy.

Environmentalism is a minor religion to him, and I couldn’t convince him that the amount of energy produced by solar PV was never going to supply any significant amount of our electricity needs. Further, he didn’t seem to grasp the idea that it took more energy to produce a solar PV panel than you’d ever get back out of it in its lifetime.

I guess they think solar panels are made by some solar panel fairies or something.


24 posted on 09/08/2011 12:23:04 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: truthguy
Here you can see the ignorance and stupidity of the Obama administration.

Graft, extortion and conversion are only stupid if you don't own the cops.

31 posted on 09/08/2011 12:41:04 PM PDT by Stentor
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