Obama's "Pocket Politics" for GREEN Fuel Costing Taxpayers BIG!

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Keep in mind, Obama made the statement "Our country faces its most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression." "Our economy is still fragile", is the message he tells Congress in december 2011 - ( Obama to Congress: Economic recovery ) Campaigning across the country he pushes the need to create jobs, while the Pentagon moves foward to cut 8700 civilian jobs with deeper cuts on the horizon. A military budget that's looking to face over $1 TRILLION in cuts over the next decade - ( Army slashing 8,700 jobs as budget cuts begin - The Federal Eye - The Washington Post ) Yet that hasn't stopped Obama from "playing politics" with this same military budget, by forcing the Navy towards more alternative "green" fuels.

An Obama connected firm is expected to be rewarded the biggest federal purchase of Biofuel ever. 450,000 gallons of Biofuel to be exact at the price of $16 a gallon, compared to standard JP-5 fuel the Navy uses at just $4 a gallon. Obama's Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says, "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." That's the perfect reason for Obama to object to the Keystone Pipeline. Using "political ideology" over the need to create real jobs in this country, Obama and the Democrats push instead towards the need for a massive unemployment bill to taxpayers. Threatening to veto the addition Keystone pipeline as it's the Republicans who are "Playing Politics", while it's Obama who holds that "it's time to do the business of the American people". That business is in creating jobs, which is why this President has chosen to "kick the can further down the road" in exchange for the unemployment extension he feels the American People really need, all while experimenting once again with the BIGGER price tag of alternative energy.

Read more about it: Obama Makes Navy Overpay For Green Jet Fuel - Investors.com
 
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Uncle Ferd says dat means it costs too much...
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Navy Biofuel Deal is 'Cost Prohibitive,' 'Another Solyndra,’ Critics Say
December 23, 2011 – The Obama administration’s deal to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuel for Navy jets comes at a cost of up to nine times higher than regular fuel, a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said, coming at a time when the U.S. military is already facing deep budget cuts.
Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has supported biofuel projects in the past, but has problems with a program the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of the Navy announced earlier this month – one that would pay $26 per gallon for a special biofuel for Navy jets; $16 per gallon when mixed with regular jet fuel. “Sen. Inhofe’s concern in this particular case as it deals with the Department of Defense is that the alternative is cost prohibitive,” Inhofe spokesman Jared Young told CNSNews.com. “Of late, our nation’s military has had to endure $500 billion in budget cuts, and if the sequestration happens as a result of the super committee’s failure to reach a deal, it would mean an additional $500 billion in cuts to our nation’s military.”

The Navy entered the contract with Louisiana-based Dynamic Fuels for $12 million for aviation fuel. Dynamic Fuels is a partnership of three firms, Solazyme, Syntroleum and Tyson Foods. Solazyme previously received $21.7 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus, to build a “biorefinery.” T.J. Glauthier is listed on the Solazyme website as a strategic advisor for the company. Glauthier served on President Obama’s White House transition team, where he focused on energy issues for the recovery act, according to the Solazyme website.

“The Department of Defense should not purchase alternative fuels that are priced 9 time higher than conventional fuels --$26.75 per gallon to approximately $2.85 per gallon -- because those extra costs will further eat away at other necessary budget items such as operations, maintenance, training, and modernization,” Young continued in a written statement. “In addition, the alternative fuel is less available on the front lines, making its use more restrictive.”

Another energy analyst said it could turn into another fiscal boondoggle, similar to the $535 million Energy Department loan to the solar panel firm Solyndra, a company that went bankrupt before being raided by the FBI. “It’s another Solyndra situation in that they’re trying to keep some of these businesses afloat when the economics just don’t make sense right now. Give them a few million and they will be able to continue to exist,” Dan Simmons, director of state and regulatory affairs at the Institute for Energy Research, a free-market energy think tank, told CNSNews.com. “They don’t meet the market test. Unless they have radical changes in technology, they’re not going to meet it anytime soon.”

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