Two days after that story ran, Mitt Romney proclaimed at a rally in Ohios Appalachian coal country: We have a lot of coal; we are going to use it. We are going to keep those jobs. Thousands cheered.
The juxtaposition speaks volumes about the Democratic Party, and about modern liberalism generally. As the Democrats become more committed to, and defined by, a green agenda, and as they become dependent on money from high-tech venture capitalists and their lobbyists, it becomes harder to describe them as a party for the little guy or liberalism as a philosophy of distributive justice..............."
Stimulus Cronyism "In preparation for tonight, Mr. Romney should read the Washington Examiners Tim Carneys Sunday column correcting Vice President Bidens statement during last weeks debate that there was no waste, no inefficiency, and no cronyism in the 2009 stimulus bill. He gives the example of a leading Obama donor and subsidy recipient Elon Musk, whose company and the millions it received from the administrations stimulus bill are under investigation by both the IRS and the federal inspector general. As Carney explains, its one thing for the government to mismanage a grant; its another when the mismanagement happens to benefit heavily some large administrations donors:........"
Obama's Ersatz Space Program - Questionable Agenda "..............Of all the waste by the Federal government and with all the other Federal agencies that could be moved to privatization, Obama selects our space program.
This detracts from the progress of our missile technology that is shared with our military, it inhibits our national defense, and it damages our national identity.
Space X is Obama's choice for supplanting NASA. It appears Obama has picked another loser. Move over Solyndra.
Let's begin with the performance to date of the ersatz space program called Space X..............
Hamstringing our space program, cutting our defense budget, and entering into lopsided strategic arms treaties that seem to inhibit missile defenses is more than bothersome.
All appear grounded in some type of questionable agenda........."
“........Tesla has even more questionable connections:
Tesla brings political pull, as well. A former Tesla board member, Steve Westly, is an Obama bundler who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president in 2008 and for his 2012 re-election campaign. His Westly Group was also a financial supporter of Tesla Motors until Tesla went public in 2010, and Westly continues to back the company.
Teslas founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is a hearty political contributor who has primarily backed Democrats, including Obama. According to published reports, another Tesla investor is Nick Pritzker, a donor to Obama and a cousin of Penny Pritzker, the national finance chair of Obamas 2008 campaign.
Sorry Obama and you Green losers but the laws of thermodynamics say that electric cars will always be inferior to internal combustion engine powered cars.
The laws of nature say that each conversion of energy will have inherent losses of energy to heat or light (some form of wasted energy).
In an internal combustion engines stored chemical energy is converted to heat through combustion and then to mechanical energy.
In electric cars chemical or nuclear energy is changed in to mechanical energy, then to electrical energy, then to stored chemical energy in a battery, then that stored chemical energy is changed to mechanical energy by the cars electric motors.
As can be seen in my simplified description of the processes of changes in energy required to make our preferred modes of transportation possible the electric car is at a distinct disadvantage in the number of changes in energy forms required to make the final rotation of mechanical parts to make the car move.
Even drastic improvements in battery technology can ever overcome the basic laws of thermodynamic losses.
Political meddling is the only thing that can make electric cars a success.
My 45 year old house is wired to the max now for all the ‘new’ conveniences we think we need. And I still lack enough plug ins for existing items. Which have to be kept in a cabinet and brought out to use on the small galley kitchen counter top. No way to enlarge the kitchen either...load bearing wall and a door in the wrong spot and money I am NOT spending to correct at our age and just 2 of us.
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In comparison to the $5 Billion:
What is the entire National Park Service Budget?
FY 2010 Enacted - $3.16 billion
FY 2011 Request - $3.14 billion
Heeeey! Is that Biden smear?