In a classic example of Obama’s green schemes the touted future of the auto industry the all electric Chevy Volt costs taxpayers about $250,000 per car and is affordable only by the rich.
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Newt Slams an “Increasingly Radical” EPA
At the NBC News/Facebook debate in Concord, NH Newt slams the EPA for its radical and anti-business regulations citing the EPA’s crazy comments on farm dust and dust in the desert. Its too bad we can’t have a debate that’s all about the EPA and its giving away taxpayer money to push the administration’s leftist radical agenda.
EPA to destroy independent truckers – raise consumer costs
“Circumventing congress” again. A classic example of how big business conspires with big government to destroy competition and hurt entrepreneurs. These independent truckers are self employed so when they go broke they won’t raise the unemployment rate. A win -win for Obama. The consumer pays for it by higher prices on all goods shipped by truck.
EPA makes grants for leftist “social justice” propaganda
Obama’s EPA is giving away your money to support community activists and propagandize for its radical leftist anti-growth agenda. In December 2010 Obama convened the first-ever White House Forum on Environmental Justice. He has increased cabinet budgets by over 30% and instructed them to dole out taxpayer funds in the guise of “environmental justice.”
Newt : Recall Obama along with the Volt
GM is recalling the biggest flop in autos since the Edsel. The Chevy electric Volt was touted by Obama as the future of the auto industry. Even with tens of thousands of dollars in government subsidies and fleet purchases by the government and its cronies like GE the Volt has failed dismally in sales. Now it has been discovered that the batteries in these “green” cars catch fire.
Modern dancers, bed-bug battlers, earth worshipers get EPA ‘environmental justice’ grants
[T]he Environmental Protection Agency provided $1 million in grants to 46 different non-profit and tribal organizations to promote what it called “environmental justice.” Since 1994, a little-noticed EPA program has handed out a total of $23 million in such grants to 1,253 organizations, for stated purposes that observers are questioning. – Daily Caller
Another solar green jobs scam goes bust
Global Watt? Another company that tried to cash in on Obama’s green scheme was given $42 million in federal and state tax credits and still went dark. When will they quit wasting billions on this wacky scam of “green” jobs?
U.S. Funds Nearly 50% — $31 Million — of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel
The report also found federal funding for global warming had increased by 116 percent between 1993 and 2004, to $5.1 billion.
GOP Rep wants to stop green agenda from bleeding taxpayers
Obama and the Greenocrats have wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on a corrupt and useless “green” agenda. The $7,500 tax credit for electric cars that nobody but rich environmentalists want or can afford is a classic example and a GOP Congressman wants to pull the plug.
Obama’s War on U.S. Energy
“Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened a conference on the wave of Environmental Protection Agency rules that are designed to force dozens of coal-fired power plants to shut down…despite warnings from expert after expert, including some of its own, the FERC Commissioners refuse to do anything about this looming threat to electric reliability.”