It's not worth getting angry about!

We know that we ave passed from death to life, because we LOVE our brothers. Anyone who does not LOVE remains in death. 1 John 3:14

"It's not worth getting angry about!" This may have been the line that sank the largest Gladiator to ever run for the Republican nomination. This came from his subconscious and was a statement of war against the Tea Party and any freedom loving patriots who are spitting mad at the thought of having their lives being run by an inefficient gummit bureaucracy. Yes Mitt, it is worth getting angry about as is the need to stopping your establishment coronation since the Tea Party wants to clean up the corruption and socialism out of our Party before cleaning it out of the Dems. We want to bring down this entire Roman Coliseum and that starts with you.

You get a real look into a man's character when the going gets tough and Rick's attacks showed us Mitt Rino's lack thereof. Nobody resents his wealth and he has an admirable success story but does anybody really believe he would be worth what he is if his last name was Roberts rather than Romney. He may not have inherited any money from his father but he did inherit his name and that was worth millions. As the head of American Motors and Governor of Michigan who ran for President during the heyday; giving Mitt a giant head start in both business and politics. He represents another political/financial dynasty like the Kennedys, the Rockefellers and Bushes. Nobody resents his success but he hardly did it by himself like Newt, Rick, Bachmann or Cain and he knows as well as anybody he is the poster boy for Crony Capitalism.

So he plays by a set of rules that is very dirty and nasty from lessons he learned in the lowest of business practices as well as having more funding than the rest of the candidates combined. He plays to destroy his competition through character assassination leaving him as the only one standing. We are seeing with the Newt attacks he plays by his own set of rules and so does the establishment. This is following the same pattern we saw destroy Michelle, Cain and the same thug tactics that were used against Palin. We are watching the worst form of political attacks to hide his commie lib record so he goes about destroying everybody else with lies and distortion.

This is not so much an attack on Newt but an attack on what is right and fair in an open democracy. We have seen enough of the personal destruction of our spokesmen over that past 15-20 years from the Democrats and we don't need to see the game played that way by our side. We need to have Romney explain his history of supporting liberal legislation and let the truth reveal who is the right person to save this country. Let's find out what kind of business practices this great capitalist used to amass his fortune or did he use these types of thug tactics to acquire his wealth?

We had a peek behind the curtain when he said, "It's not worth getting upset about healthcare." This statement told us he was not going to fight for the people or the elimination of healthcare. He is going to manage the program and trim a few things around the edges rather than try to reverse it as the first step to reversing all the oppressive gummit controls. In one statement when he was cornered with no way out we got a look inside his mind and it is not one who is willing to fight for his Presidency let alone for the basic rights of the common man and disqualified himself as a candidate. When the going got tough Mitt quit. In the end he would be worse than Obama since he would be fighting the Tea Party just as hard from our side of the battlefield.

All of the establishmedia roared and raved how their golden boy beat that common Conservative loudmouth that they don't want to vote for let alone defend against their echo chamber which is what they fear. They want to have an elitist like they are, who is a Rockefeller Republican that is not really all that stuck on messy issues like abortion, gun control, homosexual marriage or God. They want someone who looks like a President who would be in the in crowd and if he wins the White House their lives would just continue and get better. Newt however would be forcing them to have to defend and rub elbows with those yucky Tea People who really don't understand the nuances of the culture of DC. After all, they just spent eight years defending a hick from Texas; they don't want to have to defend a Newt. They know exactly who they want and Newt is their worst nightmare since he would declare War on the beltway and they never hired on to try to explain that, again.

So the moderate establishmedia just turns their head when their Golden Boy makes a mistake of monumental measure and declares him the winner and frontrunner again. Meanwhile the people saw what he is made of and the glass jaw he p-p-p-possesses as well as his lack of will to eliminate Obamacare. We will continue the mandate to buy healthcare, no underwriting for insurance companies, and the bankruptcy of those companies followed by single payer and of course death panels, but those are nothing to get angry about. We will have a lukewarm conservative when the fight isn't too hard but mostly we will have GW without the backbone to stand by his convictions or the ability to articulate conservatism. The main thing the establishmedia is hoping is the end of the Tea Party and their messy influence on politics.

We have a candidate with a flood of money who is likely funneling it both through the front door and the back who has the entire GOP establishment pulling his campaign like six charging horses around the Coliseum. As their gladiator kills victim after victim Newt climbed down from the crowd with a large sword and a fortress of books who is now standing in their path yelling Live Free or Die! Will the crowd give him the thumbs up or the thumbs down and another kill? What the Floridians and America have to ask themselves is if they are going to allow the Republican Party to continue to mirror the Democrat Party or are they going to demand standards?

Are they going to judge our candidates by their actions, ideas, their history as well as character rather than how much mud their opposition research can dig up or twist? Are we going to let the Establishmedia decide our candidate or are we? This is exactly how we got Obama and to allow this form of politics to succeed in our Party will be the death of the dream our Forefathers had when they envisioned this grand experiment. They believed God shed his grace on Thee and to accept this form of corruption is not what he shed it for. We as Americans have to say no to this, which will open the door for candidates like Cain, Bachmann and Palin to fight with their records and ideas rather than away from the slime merchants who run the Coliseum. Newt and we are fighting to the death against the entire Roman Empire and when this battle is over only one walks out.

Pray for America

Gary Bray

 

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The Volt: what happens when ideology gets ahead of reality

Mr. President, you are building the wrong car.

 

In a May 2007 speech before the Detroit Economic Club, Candidate Obama chastised American automakers for building the wrong cars—while they were building "bigger, faster cars," "foreign competitors were investing in more fuel-efficient technology."  He stated that "it's not enough to only build cars that use less oil—we also have to move away from that dirty dwindling fuel altogether." He noted that "the transformation of the cars we drive and the fuels we use would be the most ambitious energy project in decades." He promised "generous tax incentives" and "more tax credits" to make this happen. He believed that the additional costs are "the price we pay as citizens committed to a cause bigger than ourselves." He claimed to be a leader who could make this happen as he intoned, "Believe me, we can do it if we really try."

 

While that speech did not mention the Chevy Volt, or even electric cars, it surely laid out his ideology. For the most part, these are campaign promises he has kept. He has driven Detroit to "move away from that dirty fuel altogether." He has offered "generous tax incentives" and "more tax credits." To see "the most ambitious energy project in decades" become a reality his administration has handed out loans to virtually every strata in the electric car's foundation.

 

He's bailed out GM—which allowed government manipulation of the market to produce the Volt in the first place.

 

He's given billions of taxpayer dollars to "green" energy companies who promised to deliver the electricity—Solyndra is just the one of the myriad of failures in his "ambitious energy project."

 

Beacon Power Company received $39 million of its government-guaranteed loan before it filed for bankruptcy. Beacon Power developed new technology that supposedly provides energy storage designed to help the intermittent solar and wind power be used by power grids, which need stable power to remain reliable.

 

Just this week, another Obama backed company filed for bankruptcy. EnerDel made lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. It received more than $100 million in government funding from the Obama administration, as part of the economic stimulus package and green energy push. One year before EnerDel filed for bankruptcy, Vice President Biden visited the plant and crowed: "A year and a half ago, this administration made a judgment. We decided it's not sufficient to create new jobs—we have to create whole new industries." The reason for EnerDel's demise? "The company suffered when demand for the batteries dropped as fewer Americans than expected opted for electric cars."

 

Yes, the Obama administration has worked hard to line up the dominos to insure a "transformation of the cars we drive and the fuels we use." They have provided "generous tax incentives" and "more tax credits." But to what end?

 

The dominos have fallen, one right after the other—all the way up to the Chevy Volt and beyond.

 

Last week GM launched "national and television print ads" to try to bolster the slumping sales for the Volt. (Every time you see an ad for an electric car, think of President Obama and your tax dollars.) Dealer orders are down. They report: "We just haven't been seeing the interest. The cost definitely has something to do with it." GM is considering slowing production due to the less-than-expected demand and has temporarily laid-off 1,200 workers.

 

In 2011, instead of the forecasted 10,000, 7,671 Volts were sold—which comes out to three-hundredths of 1 percent of US carmakers unit sales. Analysts say there has been a "slow initial uptake of the first models to come on the market." Many of the Volts that were sold were to government.  New York City bought 50. The city of DeLand, FL used part of a $1.2 million federal grant to buy five. Perhaps in effort to save his "ambitious energy project," President Obama has committed the fed to buying 100+. He's even pushed his Jobs Council leader, Jeffery Immelt, to buy them. GE will purchase 3000 through the year 2015.

 

Of course GE is one of the leading suppliers of the charging stations needed to power the Volt—much like those removed by Costco, due to lack of use. After investing a lot of time and money on recharging stations, GE has to do what they can to not let the market slip further away.

 

But, remember, "we can do it if we really try." From the first domino to the last, the administration has really tried. The Volt, says the Financial Times, was "fast-tracked through development in a process it likened to a 'moonshot.'" Adam Jones, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, believes that they are "not yet ready for prime time." Addressing the removal of charging stations at Costco, general manager for northern California, Dennis Hoover said: "Why should we have anybody spend money on a program nobody's thought through?" Calum MacRae of PWC's Autofacts states that electric vehicles "are flawed in terms of convenience."

 

Citing statistics for the Nissin Leaf, Forbes Magazine counts the cost of an electric vehicle (EV): "At $0.11/KWH for electricity and $4.00/gallon for gasoline, you would have to drive the Leaf 164,000 miles to recover its additional purchase cost.  Counting interest, the miles to payback is 197,000 miles.  Because it is almost impossible to drive a Leaf more than 60 miles a day, the payback with interest would take more than nine years." But, they state: "The cost is not the biggest problem." "The biggest drawback is not, range, but refueling time. A few minutes spent at a gas station will give a conventional car 300 to 400 miles of range. In contrast, it takes 20 hours to completely recharge a Nissan Leaf from 110V house current. An extra-cost 240V charger shortens this time to 8 hours. There are expensive 480V chargers that can cut this time to 4 hours, but Nissan cautions that using them very often will shorten the life of the car's batteries."

 

Plus, the cost of electricity keeps going up. According to the Energy Information Administration, residential electricity rates have risen from 11.26 cents per kWh in 2008, to 11.51 cents in 2009, to 11.54 cents in 2010. With the increasing regulation on cost-effective coal-fueled generation, and the proposed plant closures, that trend is likely to get even more dramatic.

 

No wonder initial "uptake" has been slow. Meanwhile, impressive advances in the technology for the traditional internal combustion engine are being made—with some outperforming hybrids. A gasoline powered Ford Focus costs about half of its electric version sibling. Remove the $7,500 US government tax credit and the EV is even less desirable.

 

Despite Obama telling Detroit that they are building the wrong cars, Americans don't want what Obama is selling. Washington has poured billions of dollars in making cars that people have to be paid to buy. Meanwhile, Chrysler is enjoying a resurgence thanks to Jeeps. Chrysler is adding more than a thousand jobs to build gas-guzzling vehicles like the Dodge Durango and Jeep Cherokee.

 

Mr. President, you are building the wrong car.

 

But this was before his now-public, election-year conversion experience, as expressed in the State of the Union Address. Now, leaving many in his eco-friendly base "more than a little unhappy," he's touting fossil fuels—particularly natural gas (even though Nancy Pelosi doesn't think natural gas is a fossil fuel). In the SOTU, the President said: "The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don't have to choose between our environment and our economy."

 

Imagine if he'd had this revelation in 2007. While I oppose federal tinkering with the markets, since the Obama administration was hell-bent on spending—a so-called "stimulus," what might the world would look like today if the $2.4 billion spent subsidizing electric cars and their various components had been spent on infrastructure to support vehicles powered by natural gas?

 

Instead, industry, like Chesapeake Energy, and investors, like T. Boone Pickens, are using their own money and are building the needed fueling stations to allow for compressed natural gas (CNG) powered trucks to crisscross the nation. Without government pressure, and without having to retool, Honda is adapting the Civic to make a CNG-fueled car with a 250 mile range that can be refueled in the same time as a gasoline-fueled automobile (rather than the hours needed for an EV). While prices at the pump have doubled since President Obama took office, and electricity rates are "necessarily" skyrocketing, natural gas' abundance has dropped prices to the lowest in more than a decade.

 

On its own, the free market is going to create the "transformation of the cars we drive and the fuels we use," without any help from the White House. Perhaps it is time to stop throwing good money after bad and allow the Volt to go the way of Baker Electrics' cars—or keep them for the rich who will buy them even without "generous tax incentives."

 

Now that President Obama has had his oil-and-gas-conversion experience and angered his green base, maybe he could go ahead and approve the pipeline. Then we'd know his conversion is real and not just an election-year transformation. 

 

 

The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). Together they work to educate the public and influence policy makers regarding energy, its role in freedom, and the American way of life. Combining energy, news, politics, and, the environment through public events, speaking engagements, and media, the organizations' combined efforts serve as America's voice for energy.

 

 

 

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