1 oh for Gods' sake........

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3 If solar were viable, it wouldn't need any guarantees.  Period.

The resource - sunlight - is FREE.  Entrepreneurs  should be grabbing up desert acreage and installing solar power plants like crazy!  But no, we need to bribe them to do it with billions of our tax dollars..

4 We will squander countless billions in this decade and do all the other things. Not because it's hard, but because hey, it's countless billions.

5 building the DNC/Obama war chest for next year with our tax dollars

6 And in the end, obama will have spent trillions on his own vainglory, lose the election, and still get to keep the millions he made while being president along with whatever he can extort on the talk circuit once he is out.

Politicians should be help personally accountable for losses of public money.

7 And so the looting continues. Next we need some rape and pillaging. Can't have a good sacking without rape and pillaging too.

8 Pork chop, pork chop
Greasy, greasy
We can beat Russia and China
Easy, easy

9 You know what would really help? A law requiring people to paint the tops of their heads white. And their pets too.

10 Yeah, and people with big hair could paint theirs and get carbon credits to sell.

11 9 You know what would really help? A law requiring people to paint the tops of their heads white.
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Way ahead of you, bro.

12 Friday's total is in addition to more than $1.2 billion in guarantees that the department issued earlier in the week.

Still gambling with taxpayer money...

13

Between this fiasco and the gun runner scandal, one would think impeachment proceedings should have already commenced.

As for the "ones" chances on the lecture circuit after his defeat...I kinda think the WH is going to keep the teleprompter!

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It's bizarro world where academic and political hacks with no real world experience doing, well anything, are playing with hundreds of billions of our dollars...Watch, as they attempt to defy gravity and make shit roll uphill!  Wind and solar costs many many mulitples more than traditional means of electricity production.   Always will dumbass! 

15 Bullshit mr han man, I mean Chu...The world is not racing to implement green energy...China, Russia, and India are racing to build coal, oil, an nuclear plants to power their economies.  Man, you come right out of a comic book! 

16 Suckers of Cock.

17 Still gambling with taxpayer money...

It's house money so they don't care.

18 11 9 You know what would really help? A law requiring people to paint the tops of their heads white.
________

Way ahead of you, bro.

No, I'm way ahead of you both.

19 I'll bet when Maggie Thatcher said you always run out of other people's money, she wasn't thinking anyone would ever run up 15 trillion in debt doing so. And 150 trillion in liabilities, IIRC, if major cuts aren't made in ongoing spending. I don't know whether the left are doing this because they don't care about collapse or because they're eager for it, but it's pretty damned clear they aren't doing it because they're worried about insolvency.

20 I really, really hate when government types make allusions to the space race. It never acknowledges that we did nearly everything wrong in that competition. Some good stuff happened but once it stopped being politically useful in the 70s we aimlessly drifted about with no real infrastructure goals.

A rational program would have focused first on sub-orbital and orbital applications with development aimed at launch systems that worked reliably and often. Being able to deliver a ton of payload to orbit on less than a week's notice would have been a good goal to set for a large cash prize private enterprise could compete for. THEN you set a goal of permanent items like space stations and long term habitation. You learn how to build stuff in space and work your way towards a moon mission with an eye toward permanent installations there.

At the time the movie '2001' was made it seemed perfectly reasonable that we'd proceed that way, once we got over the political stunt mentality that prioritized reaching the Moon before we could get to orbit reliably and often. As it is, we tried to circumnavigate the globe just a few weeks after we'd crossed the English Channel a few times. Impressively ambitious but not good business.

A viable business doesn't need government funding unless its only customer is the government, most often the military. Funding R&D is a debatable use of taxpayer monies but acceptable to more of us than outright intervention in the free market and its unsurpassed bullshit detector.

If placing a photovoltaic array on your home's roof requires substantial government funded subsidies to make financial sense for the homeowner, then there is something very wrong with the business of residential solar power. Likewise for electric cars and a list of other products that don't deliver much in exchange for high cost.

It isn't that we don't like the idea of reduced or non-polluting energy sources. I grew up reading Science Fiction. To me a factory belching out a column of smog isn't just polluting but also throwing material that should have application elsewhere. Doing stuff better and cleaner is wonderfully appealing but wishing don't make it so. Every advance comes after a great deal of thought and effort. Throwing money at the problems doesn't guarantee a desired result but it does guarantee that those interested in the money itself will get involved.

21 Under my plan, electricity costs will necessarily sky-rocket...

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Green energy makes sense if you don't mind mulitplying your electric bill by, oh I don't know...TEN!  I don't mind, what say you?

23 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

24 Not a word of this outrage on the Sunday shows. But they all had time to discuss Cristy not running

25 I donÂ’t usually add my comments, but I will in this case. Nice work. I look forward to reading more.