Comments about ‘President Obama takes step to expedite solar power across West’

Oh Please! Don't tell me it's so? What an absolute waste! It will be known as Obama's folly! Or better yet, one of Obama's myriad of fooley's! (SP intended)

I absolutely disagree. Solar power is not the answer. It eats up so much land! Environmentalists don't want to build a pipeline because it disrupts ecosystems, but eating up acres of land for inefficient power usage isn't any better. The real future of energy is nuclear power. I've seen some pretty awesome work being done with radioactive Thorium. It doesn't have the same waste products as the nuclear processes we use now days.

World oil production has risen less than 3% since 2005. With cheap oil getting harder to find we better start working on something new. We can't rely on low grade oil sources like tar sands, and oil shale, for our future energy supplies.

Nothing like increasing everyone's electricity bills to satisfy whims of "environmentalists" (who aren't as concerned about the environment as they claim). I regret not having the determination to fight a better fight against these ill-advised efforts.

This is the best news I have heard in a long time. We are standing at the end of the carbon age, of polluting our atmosphere, of destroying our land and damaging the health of all life on earth. This is the beginning and just what our economy needs to create thousands of new jobs. This will also lower our dependence on foreign oil, making America stronger and less likely to go to the mideast with our military to protect our access to oil. This deserves our full support for jobs, better health, lower CO2 levels and national security.

Developing renewable energy helps us import less oil from overseas. It reduces pollution and health care costs.

I remember when cell phones were very expensive. Over time the cost came down. Had the early adopters not existed, cell phones would have never gotten off the ground and we wouldn't have them today.

Obama has vision, I like this in a leader.

This is one step in the right direction on a long road into the future.

We need to find out how many of Obamas bundlers and contributers will benefit from this.
Does Solyndra still ring a bell?

re ThomasJefferson
WELLSVILLE, UT

From what I've read in history, you used to be a farsighted visionary. What happened?

Well done. Now we have to publically invest in the country's manufacturers of solar cells before the chineese and the germans capture the entire market.

His $500 million grants to companies that fail and putting this project in so late in his only term that it will never make money, now or in the future for what? He just wants some votes from a small minority but will make press on this so he looks as though he is doing great. He likes to spend other people's money without going through all the processes required by the federal regulations to get the proper approval. You can't put in a non-running water type of toilet on federal lands without going through months of input and output. Now he is doing this in a time he is desperate for some type of approval from the people, so he can praise His own works at His Convention and get some applause to make the headlines. He is a man jabbing at anything he can to bring up his approval rating with his people in Chicago and by them also. This is not an Abraham Lincoln running for and as a President. He doesn't have the people in the Cabinet to help our country succeed. Governor Romney has people dedicated to our Country.

$2 Trillion for Middle Eastern Wars for oil...
$25 Billion per year for Oil Industry Subsides...

No matter HOW expensive these solar projects will end up costing,
It's obviously pennies on the dollar vs. Oil.

Good job Mr. President!
Good job.

JWB
Kaysville, UT
. Governor Romney has people dedicated to our Country.

8:28 a.m. July 25, 2012

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Governor Romney has his people and everything he owns invested in Foreign Countries.
He is an economic traitor to his country.

Seriously,
If wants to be President of the Unites States,
He needs to put his money where his mouth is.

We may not be using solar power twenty years from now, but I think this is a significant step in a good direction. These studies will help us understand what we have with solar power and what we can improve. I'm glad to hear this news.

It's a shame to me that we had to wait 3.5 years of this presidency to finally see a significant step towards alternative energy. I hope this is more than an election year stunt.

Mitt Romney invests more money in the U.S. each year than most of us do in our lifetimes. Every financial investor suggests that we "diversify" our investments, and yes, that includes foreign investments.

To "chaliceman" this won't reduce our dependance on oil in any significant way. Very little power in the US is produced using oil. The US uses coal, nuclear, and natural gas to produce power. All three of those are produced within the US.

To "LDS Tree-Hugger" the oil companies receive no subsidies, and we have not entered any wars (yet) for oil. We have entered wars to eliminate tyrants that were engaged in genocide of their own people, or were giving safe harbor to terrorist organizations.

Currently solar projects recieve direct subsidies that amount to $0.9680 per kWh, while Nuclear receives $0.0031 per kWh.

Plus, do you really want us to becom dependant on the south american dictators that control the mines where we get the rare earth materials for the solar panels?

I didn't know you were an Obama supporter...

President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion US in loan guarantees on Tuesday to help build the first U.S. nuclear power plants in nearly three decades, a move he says "is only the beginning."

Obama said the move toward nuclear power had to be made to meet America's energy needs and reduce greenhouse gases.

"On an issue that affects our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we can't continue to be mired in the same old stale debates between left and right, between environmentalists and entrepreneurs," Obama said. "Our competitors are racing to create jobs and command growing energy industries. And nuclear energy is no exception," he said.

BTW -- and as for the U.S. fighting genocide but not for oil -- but please how that sort of U.S. Foreign policy explains Iraq but not Rwanda.

Lame...

give me $500 MM and I'll do it. clueless

Liberal larry, you're wrong about the cause of the decline in oil production. My brother works in the oil industry in Denver, and production is down because of federal(obama) restrictions in drilling leases.
Secondly, when one doesn't learn from other's mistakes, it can be attributed to slow learning or unawareness. But, when one doesn't learn from his/her own repeated mistakes, it's plain stupidity, i.e. Solyndra and other green energy companies funded by the feds that have gone bankrupt.

GoBanana: Is eats up land? This is true, but what are alternative uses for the land?