Climate Change, Green Energy and More Unemployment...

Ever notice how President Obama likes to make broad, generalized statements when talking about the popularity of one of his ideas?  He says things like “The majority of Americans agree…” when statistics, polls and other public opinions say otherwise.  The Affordable Care Act is a good example.  Before it passed the President was out campaigning for it and telling everyone that the American people wanted it passed, even though all polls showed that 72% of the American people were against it.

A few days ago the President made another of those broad, generalized statements when talking about climate change.  With the American economy in the toilet, job creation at a minimum, and more people on food stamps and other government assistance programs than ever before in history, the President is making the very controversial topic of climate change a priority.  Saying that “Scientists agree that climate change is real” (another statement that indicates no scientist disagrees with the theories if climate change when more and more are disagreeing every day), the President is going to once again bypass Congress and allow the Environmental Protection Agency to make regulations that will limit carbon emissions and invest more money into so-far failed green energy companies.

Really?  More investments in green energy?  Let’s look at that for a minute.  Her is a list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:    (*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.)

Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*

SpectraWatt ($500,000)*

Solyndra ($535 million)*

Beacon Power ($43 million)*

Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)

SunPower ($1.2 billion)

First Solar ($1.46 billion)

Babcock and Brown ($178 million)

EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*

Amonix ($5.9 million)

Fisker Automotive ($529 million)

Abound Solar ($400 million)*

A123 Systems ($279 million)*

Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*

Johnson Controls ($299 million)

Brightsource ($1.6 billion)

ECOtality ($126.2 million)

Raser Technologies ($33 million)*

Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*

Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*

Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*

Range Fuels ($80 million)*

Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*

Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*

Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*

GreenVolts ($500,000)

Vestas ($50 million)

LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)

Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*

Navistar ($39 million)

Satcon ($3 million)*

Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*

Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

If you counted the number of companies you found there are 34 so far.  If you counted up the dollars wasted you’re better at math than I am but it’s in the billions of dollars.  That’s billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on these failed companies at the direction of the President.  And he wants to continue to spend more.  How stupid does he think we are?  Yeah…  that stupid.

Even though his Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax) plan died during his first term, the President is now poised to enact the same cost raising, job killing measures through the EPA, avoiding Congress altogether.  If he’s successful, as he promised – “energy costs will necessarily skyrocket.”  He told us this early in his first term and while the majority of the American people were against it, there were many who supported it.  When it died he let it go, with eyes on re-election.  Now he has nothing to lose.  He’s looking at legacy rather than sound programs.  He pushed Obamacare through and it will be part of his legacy.  If he can push sweeping environmental programs through the EPA that accomplish what he wants then that, too, will be part of his legacy – regardless of what it does to the country and the economy.

Says the Huffington Post:  “Tuesday's announcement…   was the first public confirmation that Obama plans to extend carbon controls to coal-fired power plants that are ‘currently pumping heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.’”

"This is the holy grail," said Melinda Pierce of Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group. "That is the single biggest step he can take to help tackle carbon pollution."

So with these upcoming EPA regulations the President intends to keep another campaign promise – to put coal fired power plants out of business.  And what is going to happen to those who will suddenly become unemployed - most of them already in poor communities?  Can they get jobs at failed green energy plants?  Can they simply live off of the government?  If that’s the case – is the government going to subsidize them enough to pay their skyrocketing energy bills?

This President continues to convince people that he really doesn’t care about the well-being of the United States.  Even other countries are beginning to realize it.  Why else would a man run for President of “the greatest nation in history” and then begin to “fundamentally change” it?