Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra

[PROBASCO]

Posted 06:58 PM ET

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.
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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.

http://news.investors.com/Article/59...green-scam.htm

[Helen Keller]

damn...


this guy and all his cronies gots to go.

[old Grump]

President Obama declared a “Sputnik moment” in last night’s State of the Union speech and promised a budget that would focus on clean energy technology. He also proposed deep cuts, which he said included some unnecessary spending by the Department of Defense.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/inte...l-mission/4460

Apparently the savings will come by not having the fuel available to buy.

The issue isn't whether the fuels actually worked. Jatropha and camelina, which are not food plants, would produce just 200,000 barrels a day. Animal fats and waste oils would top out at 30,000 barrels daily.

According to 2007 CIA World Fact Book there are only 35 countries in the world consuming more oil than DoD.

The U.S. military consumes 150,000 barrels of oil a day in its overseas operations. That does not take into account what we use daily in normal everyday training and operations in CONUS.

A Boeing 747 burns 5 gallons a mile. Obama flew to Des Moines Iowa to give an Earth Day speech. That took 9000 gallons. Well the good thing is it got him out of Washington where he could have actually done some harm. At least this way he is saving the environment.

Where is that biting my tongue smilie?

[btcave]

$16 dollars a gallon. I'll see that at the pump in my lifetime.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I can't believe the media blindly states this administration has been the most scandal free ever......They are amazing at sticking their heads in the sand, this has got to be one of the most corrupt administrations ever.

[Ronwicp]

We have been hearing talk of us having to use this stuff for a while now. We keep avoiding it somehow. I dont they will certify our engines to run on the stuff. Which is odd cause they will run on just about anything else.