Hold on to your wallets: Obama pledges to double down on clean energy

**Written by Doug Powers

The debt has increased over $5 trillion since Obama took office (cleaning up Bush’s mess was expensive), so we’ll see in November how this “double down” talk goes over, especially when he’s talking about doubling down in a graveyard of taxpayer money that’s littered with bankruptcy after bankruptcy.

This is President Obama in Michigan yesterday:

I want clean energy to happen here in the United States. I want advanced batteries made here in the Unites States. I want electric cars made here in the United States. I want solar and wind power made here in the United States. We’ve been subsidizing oil companies with taxpayer giveaways for about a hundred years now. It’s time to double down on clean energy that’s never been more promising.

And with great examples like this and this and this and this and this and this and these, how could anybody not get caught up in the promise?

Video by way of HAP:

2008′s speeches are going to be a tougher sell in 2012.

The comments are too good not to include.

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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:45 pm, Hangfire said:
   
   
   
   

   Double down on stupid.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:46 pm, AlohaGuy said:
   
   
   
   

   He must have more crony criminal friends looking for a handout before he gets booted.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:47 pm, J S Ragman said:
   
   
   
   

   
   

   so we’ll see in November how this “double down” talk goes over,

   
   

   
   

   Well gee, Doug, who else is going to contribute to his campaign?

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:47 pm, drivingjack said:
   
   
   
   

   Mmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm. Hmmmmmmm.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:48 pm, AlohaGuy said:
   
   
   
   

   
   

   We’ve been subsidizing oil companies with taxpayer giveaways

   
   

   
   

   Stop bastardizing the language. Taking LESS of something that is THEIRS is NOT a subsidy. Marxist.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:51 pm, redgypsy said:
   
   
   
   

   I want, I want, I want. That’s all he thinks about, isn’t it?

   
   

   Well, that and “how fast can I ruin this nation?”

   
   

   I am the Great I.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:52 pm, hawkeye54 said:
   
   
   
   

   
   

   Double down on stupid.

   
   

   
   

   It ain’t stupid he’s doubling down on….its the fundamental destruction of our economy at our expense and for the enrichment of his mentors and specific corporate cronies here and abroad.

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:52 pm, AlohaGuy said:
   
   
   
   

   “I want white roofs her in the United States. I want unicorns farting ice cream in all 57 states. I want you all to consume electricity like my brother in the hut in Africa who lives on $12 a year! Is that too much to ask?”

   
   
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   On April 19th, 2012 at 4:52 pm, J S Ragman said:
   
   
   
   

   So exactly what does he call the federal and state gas taxes? Are those a subsidy, a taxpayer giveaway, or what? I’m so confused.

   
   
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 4:53 pm, hawkeye54 said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    I want, I want, I want. That’s all he thinks about, isn’t it?

    
    

    
    

    He is an immature, self-absorbed child around which the universe turns.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 4:54 pm, hawkeye54 said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    So exactly what does he call the federal and state gas taxes?

    
    

    
    

    Insufficient. The government isn’t getting it all……yet.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 4:54 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    We’ve been subsidizing Michelle’s vacations with taxpayer giveaways…damn it, who’s been fooling with TOTUS again?”

    
    

    
    

    Bush.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 4:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    He must have more crony criminal friends looking for a handout before he gets booted.

    
    

    
    

    Maybe just the same ones…..wanting even more while the getting is still good. The hunger for amassing fabulous wealth and power can never be satiated for people such as Soros, et al.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 4:59 pm, PA_kulak said:
    
    
    
    

    Complicated, novel product developments typically fail 9 out of 10 times.

    
    

    There is a private capital market for this type of thing, with investors that are willing to bet against these odds. It is referred to as, “the bleeding edge of technology”.

    
    

    Having the government spew cash over everything has prolonged the ideas that should die and made it tougher for the truly good ones to gain traction and succeed in this field. This is wreaking more havoc than if no subsidies were granted at all.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:02 pm, Misscheryl said:
    
    
    
    

    Just one more reason…

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:03 pm, tomg51 said:
    
    
    
    

    the definition of insanity

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:04 pm, Flyoverman said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    I want advanced batteries made here in the Unites States. I want electric cars made here in the United States.

    
    

    
    

    I would love to have someone appear on the national news and show how environmentally toxic these things are.

    
    

    Clean energy, my single point of contact.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:04 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    Maybe just the same ones…..wanting even more while the getting is still good. The hunger for amassing fabulous wealth and power can never be satiated for people such as Soros, et al.

    
    

    
    

    And of course he calls a tax break a “subsidy”, but handouts to his friends are “investments”.

    
    

    I guess if he wasn’t lying, he’d have nothing to say.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:05 pm, tomg51 said:
    
    
    
    

    He’s making up for the losses with volume

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:06 pm, prendad said:
    
    
    
    

    I want Obama to stop wasting money on Green Energy Failures. I want Obama to stop wasting money on a stimulous that doesn’t work. I want Obama to stop playing golf so much. I want Obama to quit appointing czars who do nothing but collect paychecks. I want Obama to stop sending his children to vacations in Mexico. I want Obama to quit saying “punching above your weight”. I want Obama to publish his educational records. I want Obama to run faster down aircraft ladders. I want Obama to quit going to Martha’s Vineyard. I want Obama to drive a Volt everywhere he goes. I want Obama to set an example and run the White House on nothing but solar energy. I want Obama to stop pretending he’s a basketball star. I want Obama to tell his wife not to spend a million dollars a year of the taxpayer’s money on her “staff”. I want Obama to stop his “you’re an idiot laugh” when someone asks him a question he doesn’t like. I want Obama to stop lying. I want Obama to keep his promises.
    BASICALLY: I WANT OBAMA UNEMPLOYED (from the federal government) NEXT YEAR.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:06 pm, Flyoverman said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    We’ve been subsidizing oil companies with taxpayer giveaways for about a hundred years now.

    
    

    
    

    Great, give the same subsidies to the clean energy companies and nothing more.

    
    

    After all its about “fairness.”

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:07 pm, Speakup said:
    
    
    
    

    And be sure you don’t interrupt the President, ever.

    
    

    Or you too could go to prison.

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:11 pm, Hangfire said:
    
    
    
    

    Hurry November. Please?

    
    
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    On April 19th, 2012 at 5:12 pm, Misscheryl said:
    
    
    
    

    
    

    4:59 pm, PA_kulak said:

    
    

    
    

    I agree with you except it isn’t about that..it’s about throwing our money to people who can help this dweeb politically. That’s all that motivates this cad. Barack Obama is and has been using our money to pay for his personal agenda with is “me..me..I…I…I…I..myself..myself…me..me…me…meeeee”