A Chinese auto company having just won the auction for bankrupt A123 Systems, one of Barack Obama’s car battery darlings that received a $249 million grant from the Obama government further illustrates why the White House playing capital investor with taxpayer funds investor is a very bad idea.
When Obama took office in January 2009, five million “green” jobs were promised, yet nowhere near that number have been created. The companies Obama invests in keep failing because Americans do not want to purchase inefficient energy at inflated prices.
Furthermore, eighty percent of the green loans, loan guarantees, and grants given out by Department of Energy went to Obama campaign backers:
•SunPower, after receiving $1.5 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
•First Solar, after receiving $1.46 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.
•Solyndra, after receiving $535 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Ener1, after receiving $118.5 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Abound Solar, after receiving $400 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Amonix, after receiving $5.9 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Babcock & Brown (an Australian company), after receiving $178 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Solar Trust for America, after receiving a $2.1-billion loan guarantee from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.
•Nevada Geothermal, after receiving $98.5 million from DOE, warns of potential defaults in new SEC filings.
“progressives” continue to promote global warming, or to use the most recent and now more popular vernacular: climate change. The 
narrative is that planet earth is experiencing a warming climate due primarily to the emission of man-made ”greenhouse gases”. The most often and specifically referenced gas is carbon dioxide.
According to Matt Rosenberg at Atmosphere Composition, the earth’s atmosphere is composed primarily of Nitrogen and Oxygen. Together, the two comprise about 99% of the gas in the atmosphere. Here’s a listing of the key components of the atmosphere:
Nitrogen – 78.084%
Oxygen – 20.95%
Argon – 0.934%
Carbon Dioxide – 0.036%
Neon – 0.0018%
Helium – 0.0005%
Methane – 0.00017%
Hydrogen – 0.00005%
Nitrous Oxide – 0.00003%
Ozone – 0.000004%
In addition, water vapor is variable but typically makes up about 1-4% of the atmosphere.
“progressives” would have the world’s population believe that fluctuations in a trace element of earth’s atmosphere (0.036%) caused by 
the burning of fossil fuels like petroleum and coal has resulted in such catastrophic events as the melting of earth’s polar ice caps and glaciers. They contend this will lead to the flooding of coastal areas and the extinction of species.
A nation of over 300 million people, which currently derives less than 5 percent of its energy from “alternatives” cannot expect to put an immediate end to the use of fossil fuels. This could quite possibly bring the nation’s ailing economy to a grinding halt, resulting in a massive loss of business, leading to a dramatic decrease in already insufficient tax revenue and an extremely painful increase in unemployment.
Is putting an end to the use of petroleum worth the accompanying reduction in the living standards and the overall prosperity of a nation? Is it worth the resulting ballooning of America’s national debt and further devaluation of its currency?
“progressives” feel an ongoing, compulsive need to force America to accept their “green energy solution”. Proposals made by the current administration and fellow “progressives” indicate a desire to achieve this end at all costs come what may. Stiffer regulations on auto emissions and mileage, EPA regulations on energy providers, resistance to development of domestic natural resources, deficit government spending on inefficient and uncompetitive solar, wind, tide and bio-fuel technology dominate the political landscape.
America’s public and industrial infrastructure is based on the use of petroleum, natural gas and coal. Nearly everyone drives a vehicle that burns gasoline or diesel fuel. Public transportation relies on fossil fuels as well. Natural gas, heating oil and coal are used in furnaces to heat homes and places of business. Coal and nuclear power generate electricity, which powers countless devices; the uses of which are taken for granted every day. Coal, natural gas and petroleum products power American’s industrial complex, the base of the 
American economic engine. America’s economy depends heavily on the existing sources of power. These methods of providing and consuming energy are all deeply ingrained into America’s business, manufacturing and home life.
Why does America continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign energy while America has undeveloped energy? Why not keep those billions of dollars at home, in America’s cash starved economy?
At a time when millions of Americans are looking for work, the economy is starving for liquid capital, and the IRS is in desperate need of revenue why not take advantage of America’s wealth of natural resources? Why not give Americans jobs drilling for oil and natural gas or digging for coal? Why not put people to work building refineries and power plants? Why not give energy employees jobs delivering gas, coal and natural gas to consumers? How many peripheral jobs will be created in the process? For every new oil well, power plant, refinery or mine there will be new infrastructure built, followed by grocery stores, restaurants, shopping malls, housing, schools, and everything else everyday Americans need for their lives.
All generated by the only force capable of powering America’s economic recovery: the private sector.
And none of those jobs could possibly be moved overseas.
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Green enrgy, “cap-and-trade,” carbon tax et al are shills for collapsing America’s energy sector and its capitalist economy.
One must remember Rockerfeller’s oil exploration and Henry Ford’s manufacturing innovations…these two, i.e., cheap energy+efficient manufacturing made america the world’s singular most powerful “creditor-nation” in the history of mankind.
Today, with repression and shackling of this driving innovation (cheap energy+efficient manufacturing) all that’s left is a dwindling technological sector with nowhere to go but down (review recent failures).
Even americas nutritional sectors (grocery and restaurants) are suffering from ever exploding cost of planting, maintaining and producing cost effective farm and dairy products.
More and more america is dependent upon unregulated and unknown suppliers of all its consumables Americans rely on, but are at best, faulty and of poor quality and dubious sources.
Pray. Amen.
Is it the difference between “freedom” and “anarchy”, progress or retreat? The HollywoodRepublican, this is the arena for movies. Thus, from the director of “Good Will Hunting” comes another masterful presentation of a worthy point of view “Promised Land”. It is the struggle between the establishment, conscience and a personal search for self nicely framed in the tricky terrain of “environmentalism”. Argue both points of view, principled and unprincipled capitalism, then decide.
I love it how people tell conservative websites “to argue both points of view,” when it’s clear that they are on a conservative website. Which, Anon, means conservative views are being espoused. Like on HuffPo, there will be liberal views espoused. Nice try.
Either you understand that this site is in favor of such views or you’re an idiot.
I’ll also add that this site is a COUNTER to all the liberal sites and the MSM. As an ex-liberal I don’t an echo chamber of liberalism since I’m surrounded my liberalism in my home city, when I go to work and when I participate in non-right and non-secular forums.