I just finished
listening to Jack Spirko’s “thesurvivalpodcast.com”
regarding 16 year old Josh Wolf of Elk River, Mn producing biofuel from Algae
for less than 2-3 dollars a gallon. President Obama is still insisting on forcing
$26.00+ a gallon algae biofuel to the US
Navy. And that price does not even take into consideration
the development costs we paid for. Is this going to be another cash cow like ethanol
production was for Archer Daniels
Midland? More BTU’s was used to produce
the alcohol than it produced in our car engines? Will one Congressman or US Senator propose
that we make a deal with this kid who apparently will not bankrupt this country
as Obama’s plans call for? I know that according to our president that Josh did
not create this process on his own and that we should take it away from him. After
all without the rest of us , Josh would be nothing! Right? Good for you Josh!

How about the ~$1 billion we spend every single day to pay for the health and environmental damage caused by burning coal?

” $2.5 billion dollars over the last 50 years” We spend that in less than 3 days to pay the hidden costs of coal.

How about the $1 billion dollars we spend per day to import oil? In less than 3 days we spend more than we’ve spent “over the last 50 years” to develop oil substitutes.

How about the $1 billion dollars we’ve been spending to fight “oil wars”? How about the hundreds of billions of dollars we’re going to be spending to care for our wounded warriors? That’s a bill that could go as high as one trillion US taxpayer dollars for a war that we did not need to fight.
Aren’t you tired of us getting jerked around by oil-producing countries and getting screwed by big oil companies? Are you not concerned that oil companies, while posting enormous profits, are getting taxpayer subsidies?
Does it bother you that our military people are being sent to die in order to keep “our oil supply” flowing?

What we are spending to support algae-fuel, biofuel, wind, solar,
geothermal, energy efficiency and all the other technology that gets us off
oil and coal is a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny amount of what we
spend on oil and coal.

If you truly care about America quit carrying water for big oil and coal.
Get behind the transition away from fossil fuels if you really want to
help America.

DOE BIOMASS PROGRAM AND ALGAE RESEARCHERS NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED!

Solydra story is opening a huge can of worms at the DOE LOAN GURANTEE LOAN PROGRAM. Its not just about the Solar loan guarantee program. Look at all the millions in fees collected by the DOE LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM with projects 20% completed. Also, an audit needs to be done on DOE GRANTS to individuals from the DOE that are now working in private industry. Very incestuous! There needs to be an audit on each individual loan program for amount funded and results!

The US taxpayer has spent over $2.5 billion dollars over the last 50 years on algae research. To date, nothing has been commercialized by any algae researcher.

The REAL question is: Does the DOE BIOMASS PROGRAM really want the US off of foreign oil or do they want to continue funding more grants for algae research to keep algae researchers employed at universities for another 50 years?

In business, you are not given 50 years to research anything. The problem is in the Congressional Mandate that says the DOE can only use taxpayer monies on algae research, NOT algae production in the US. So far, research has not got the US off of foreign oil for the last 50 years!

A Concerned Taxpayer