Carter put solar panels on the White House & Reagan took them off

Ye gods what pure unadulterated idiocy from the left, but then they are leftists so what did I really expect? Carter wanted energy independence? And yet he all but guarateed it wouldn't happen in the forseeable future when he essentially shut down all oil drilling in the US.

Exxon builds wind farms and makes and sells solar panels as well you idiots. My God the Bullshit leftist believe never ceases to amaze me.

So you're saying the Dems have had their hands tied all this time, and now, finally, they have their chance? You're either giving the GOP a lot of credit for power they don't have or you're giving the Dems one heck of a pass for the last 30 or so years.

No one is getting a pass. Clinton should have done far more. And there are plenty of Dems that have no qualms about taking money from the big energy people. As I said, we shall see what they do.

The power to control the money for research is one of the primary drivers of technology. Now before anyone tries the idiocy, fiscal 2006 is done in 2005, still a Republican Congress;


The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden plans to lay off as many as 100 scientists and researchers, or 11 percent of its total staff, beginning early next month as it faces drastic cuts in its budget.

The fiscal 2006 cuts, estimated at more than $20 million, or 10 percent of its $200 million budget in fiscal 2005, are the result of Congress earmarking or diverting a big chunk of federal funds toward other projects.

In fiscal 2006, Congress cut the Department of Energy's budget for all renewable energy programs by more than 35 percent. As a result, DOE, which funds NREL as well as other national labs, has cut the total amount it will give the lab in Golden. NREL does research in wind, biomass, solar and hydrogen technologies.

"We are going to face a very difficult year at NREL," said Bob Noun, NREL's deputy associate director. "This is a real paradox.

"At a time in which renewable energy enjoys significant bipartisan support in Congress, that very support has spawned all of these projects around the country that have diverted funds from NREL's research programs."

Layoffs in store at NREL : Energy : The Rocky Mountain News

No one is getting a pass? Then I shall be quite pleased to post in the thread you start about how Dems have bungled energy policy for the last 30 years and kept the WORLD from making any advances in solar or other alternative energies. This ridiculous thread could really use a counterpart to balance the incredibly partisan malarky that's been posted.