A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON WE'RE TALKING REAL MONEY!

Manchurian President Obama wants a billion dollars of YOUR money to help develop more "alternative" cars, such as the ever-popular Volt, the Tesla, and the pedi-cab.  As if we haven't wasted enough on these chimeral phantasms, these windmills in Barack Quixote's mind.  There is a reason that steamers replaced sailing ships.  There is a reason that locomotives replaced wagon trains.  There is a reason the automobile replaced the ox cart.  But Mr. Obama's dream from his father seems to be a universal return to the Stone Age for all the "litle people" out there, and if you don't believe YOU ae one of those "little people," of the man's mindset, then how do you explain his boast about creating "shovel-ready jobs?"  Doctor Johnson?   Engineer Hartman? Draftsman Lewis?  Auto-CAD designer Murphy?  Have you all gotten your shovels, or are you still unemployed?   To the anointed one, YOU are mere esnes, the grumbling proletariat to be subdued and controlled by any available means. 

Have you ever wondered why Safeway doesn't get its products shipped in by bus?  I would pay a bunch of money, say up to two or three dollars, to watch Sam Adams bring home a new queen-sized mattress set on his Schwinn, or to see Best Buy getting all their 55-inch plasmas from the light rail stop. 

Anyway, Mike Ramirez has speared the obvious flaw in this eco-plugin-algaemagic-fuel policy with just a few strokes of his acerbic pen:

QUOTE OF THE MILLENNIUM

 
  Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand. We have a lot of work to do.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

Hat Tip:  Dr. GOG
-neon leon

AN EDSEL FOR OUR TIME

One week after a campaign congratulatory speech by purported President Obama, during which he promised to buy a Chevy Volt upon retirement (hopefully a 2013 model), GM, the automaker nationalized by the stroke of a Presidential Bic, announced the "temporary" stoppage of production on the Volt and the subsequent layoff of 1,300 GM shareholders assembly line workers. Given Mr. O's penchant for golf, I can understand his desire for a Volt, as it serves no useful purpose as an automobile, nor ever shall it.

The closest thing to a truly "green economy" vehicle is GM's proposed Silverado pickup which can run on natural gas, of which some 98% of available supply is produced right here in the USA, not Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, nor Iran.  Having driven a commercial truck which ran on propane, I think the CNG is a grand idea:  low CO2 output, cleaner-burning than gasoline or diesel, and available in all 57 states, unlike Obama's birth records.

WithThat in mind, expect gasoline prices to remain at record highs near the $5-per-gallon goal of the Obama DOE until Labor Day, when prices should drop to about $1-to-$1.50-per-gallon.  Oddly, the Democratic National Convention will commence the following day, but I digress...in fact, I don't care, my best-performing stock is CVX (ChevronTexaco).

Hat Tip:  Glen Foden

-neon leon