"Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon. The massive Obama stimulus was supposed to generate millions of jobs, but the $535 million loan guarantee it gave to solar panel maker Solyndra on the eve of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy illustrated the fundamental incompetence of Obama's neo-Keynesian economic ideology. Now we find the Navy partnering with the Agriculture Department to purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of alternative biofuel in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft the biggest federal purchase of biofuel ever. It's part of the White House's "we can't wait for Congress" strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, "we can't wait to go broke." A look at the lucky seller of this environmentalist version of the proverbial $600 Pentagon toilet seat indicates that the move is not just wasteful, but ethically suspect. As J.E. Dyer noted over the weekend on the Hot Air Green Room, "a member of Obama's presidential transition team, T. J. Glauthier, is a 'strategic advisor' at Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy. Glauthier worked shock, shock on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill." Solazyme had already gotten a nearly $22 million chunk of change out of the taxpayers thanks to the 2009 stimulus. We heard the ludicrous excuse last week from Obama Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, as quoted in the National Journal, that "we are doing this for one simple reason: It makes us better fighters" because "our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to our national security and to the U.S. Navy ability to protect America and project power overseas." What about the "very real threat" to the Navy of not having enough money for the ships, fighters and ammunition it needs to protect America? President Obama's assault on the Pentagon could scrap 60 of the Navy's ships, including two carrier groups. The biofuel will be used next summer by we're not making this up "the Great Green Fleet Carrier Strike Force" in exercises near Hawaii. Mabus painted the picture of America's great naval force advancing from sails to coal to diesel to nuclear, and now finally to biofuels. But if we keep starving the Navy, it may soon not have enough loose change to repair the sails on Old Ironsides. And this is only the beginning of this two-for-one bad deal swindling taxpayers while ravaging national security. Obama's Agriculture and Energy departments and Navy plan to spend $510 million over three years buying biofuel for military and commercial purposes, bypassing Congress by "leveraging Defense Department procurement." "Green Fleet" is another of Obama's "borrowings" from Teddy Roosevelt, whose 1907-09 Great White Fleet so called because the armada's ships were painted white circumnavigated the globe to enforce treaties, protect U.S. possessions and show the world that America had become a superpower. But Obama's jolly green Navy is a lot more PR than TR. So much so that at a conference last year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead found himself publicly insisting that the Green Fleet was not a "public relations gimmick," claiming that "it's more than simply 'how green can we be seen?'" Meaner, not greener, is what the U.S. Navy should be getting. Spending four times as much for biofuels may impress the Democratic Party's environmentalist special interests. But to Russia's Vladimir Putin, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other U.S. adversaries, it will be a sign of weakness and an invitation for aggression." http://news.investors.com/Article/594703/201112131858/navy-biofuel-gate-latest-obama-green-scam.htm Real nice.... just what we need. Borrow $.42 of each dollar so your kids can pay for an inexpereinced Chicago thug pickin' winners n' losers.
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16 is greater than 4 the last time I checked. In fact, 4 times greater. Supporters should pay the bill and not the general taxpayer.
