Via Washington Examiner:
Speaking on energy in his weekly radio address today, President Obama made no mention of his goal to convert algae into fuel as part of a plan to reduce gas prices and dependency on oil. He did, however, assure listeners that other ideas of his were not “pie in the sky” solutions to energy policy problems.
“[T]hese cars aren’t some pie in the sky solution that’s years away,” Obama said of his the vehicles being built to meet his fuel efficiency standards. “They’re being built right now – by American workers, in factories right here in the U.S.A. Every year, our cars and trucks will be able to go further and use less fuel . . . We’ll reduce our oil consumption by more than 12 billion barrels. That’s a future worth investing in.”
Twelve billion barrels is a bit less oil than the United States uses in a two year period, but the president didn’t say how long it would take to save that much oil using these fuel efficiency standards.
Obama’s stated aversion to a “pie in the sky solution” comes just a couple weeks after he proposed converting “a plantlike substance, algae,” into oil. “If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be doing alright,” he told a Miami audience. “Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America.”
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Posted by ZIP on Saturday, March 10, 2012 WEASEL ZIPPERS
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