Obama: Hey, We Really Need To Use “Algae” As a Substitute For Oil…
Thanks, super genius.
Via Beltway Confidential:
President Obama admitted today that he does not have a “silver bullet” solution for skyrocketing gas prices, but he proposed alternative energy sources such as “a plant-like substance, algae” as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent.
“We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae — you’ve got a bunch of algae out here,” Obama said at the University of Miami today. “If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be doing alright. 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.”
The Department of Energy (DOE) currently spends about $85 million on 30 research projects “to develop algal biofuels,” according to the White House, which announced that Obama is committing another $14 million to the idea.
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 4:05 pm | 
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Hhahhahahahahhahahahhahahahaa Good luck with that
every time this asshat opens his piehole..I just wanna puke
What we need is to stop using bullshit as a substitute for real solutions.
This is the biggest communist agitator libtard this country has ever seen, but i do think most of the decisions he has made has been exactly what he wanted. But listening to him only a fool believe what he says.
“Algae to algae”
dust to dust….
LOL…and there are people that doubt the genius of the Bible…..
Actually, I’ve heard some good things about algae, but it is no where near ready to do what he thinks it can do…
Uh… isn’t algae-based oil an evil hydrocarbon?
If bullshit fueled cars we’d be knee deep in high cotton…
Oh wait, was that racist?
We need one of those ‘real men of genius’ beer commercials right about now……
If we could harness HOT AIR then AL GORE,GREENPEACE and OBAMA would be very usful
I understand hemp works, too.
Barry uses shit as a substitute for brains.
It’s like he’s just begging to be called an asshole.
Remember when he said he wanted to helped Brazil in the exploration and extraction of the oil then purchase it? This is the diminution of America at the hands of the greens who will roll back this country to the 19th century.
How soon until Obama gives a few billion dollars to one of his supporters to start an algae company?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPT_2xA4pI
What an embarrassing idiot. Thank God I’m not a Democrat and forced to defend this dumbass.
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for clarity sake
@Mudshark
Hells yeah it was racist! I heard that dog whistle!
Dang,, forgot my tag line
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-OWS-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-♫
Algae IS a plant.
Obama is a plant-like substance.
gonna start growing me some algae over here
my other car is a chebby aquarium
Has he started the Navy’s bio-fuel green fleet??
FOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMERICA MUST EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO TO HELL, BO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DanlBoone says:
February 23, 2012 at 4:18 pm
gonna start growing me some algae over here
my other car is a chebby aquarium
So how much is the fed algae tax or do get a green loan?
Dear Mr Author-
The exact quote is….”“We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae — you’ve got a bunch of algae out here,” “.
It’s right there in your own story. Try and write and quote in context makes you look more like a responsible intelligent and honest adult that way.
You’re welcome,
Super Genius
He trips all over himself “investing” in EVERYTHING EXCEPT PETROLEUM!
Is there anybody anymore who’s impressed by his nonsense?
Right now, to make a gallon of bio fuel from algae, costs about $33 a gallon to just to make. Of course, shipping and distribution are extra.
Perhaps, if oBama can give a Solyndra type loan of 50 trillion (with a T), to the project, they can get the cost down to $5.00 a gallon. s/
Maybe if oBama left Air force One parked on the tarmac for longer than a couple days, maybe the price of aviation fuel would go down.
new chebby aquarium models come with sails and folding deck chairs
@Clark Narkulis 4:17
ROFL!
Aragula has a higher octane rating.
Thanks TimPundit,, I haven’t had my ass licked since at least uh, well the last time you and Ha were taking turns.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-OWS-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-♫
@JenBee and DanlBoone:
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I need a grant writer in the worst way
the EPA’s new draconian regulations are shutting down 2 refinerys permanently (too expensive to upgrade) and closing others for required improvmentsto get a miniscule improvement in pollution control. law of diminishing returns.
I am guessing the big algae play will offset that?
Everytime I think this stupid admitted doper Barry can’t get any dumber he surprises me by topping his dumb self repeatedly. Simply amazing!
Barry’s jolly them along and playing the fiddle while our nation suffers immensely is typical of a vindictive, ignorant, hoodlum thug. I am never let down on my expectations that lies will not stop spilling from his big mouth.
Obama personaly removes the Gulf of Mexico for drilling and now he gives us alage.
Ok O just where does one fill up on alage.
Words can not express my amazment at you insolence and stupidity.
You are definatly above your pay level.
What do you think we should call this new magic miracle fuel source?
I’m pretty sure that “Soylent Green” is already copyrighted.
Whatever shall we call it? Obama-Slime?
500 million dollar grant to Algendra in 3, 2, 1…….
So in other words, from the ridiculous to the absurd.The voltron scheme flopped, now we’re going to truly go green with how many trillions flushed into an algae swamp? Who is going to get dibs on this pile of unsustainable debt. omg, these Ds are completely seperated from reality. Never ever elect another academic/lawyer. EVER!
Good gad, if we cannot stop this lunatic in November………..
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LEGALIZE ARUGALA NOW!
and tax the living daylights out of it
Oh ok, I get it, we’ll turn the Gulf of Mexico into one huge algae farm. Brilliant!
Good, work on that. After the oil in America runs out in about 10 centuries, maybe the 10,000 years of research will have perfected algae as a viable alternative.
Algae for fuel? Yeah, seems I heard something a while back that some short chain carbon- hydrogen compound was secreted/emitted from some strain of algae. But I also heard this was just a small step in creating fuels from algae or any other plants for that matter.
So Obongo, when can I expect my fueling station to have pumps and tanks installed to fuel algaeline into my diesel? Next week? Next month? Next year? Next century? Never?
I’m going with never since all of your idiotic ideas never come to fruition and always have a very heavy price tag associated with them. You’re nothing but a snake oil salesman…….and a piss poor one at that. Asshole!
subsidize the Chebby Salamander!
“he proposed alternative energy sources such as “a plant-like substance, algae” as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent.”
Uh, ZIP, I hate to play editor . . .BUT
I believe he ACTUALLY SAID “a plant-like substance, AL G”, referring of course to Mr. Gore.
Please use more care in the future.
Thanks,
woz
@dba…vagabond trader
Never, ever elect another black, communist, community agitator president.
@Sentinel:
Thought academic covered it all.
Well, him and his wife HAVE cornered the domestic slime market…
Let’s see how far Boxcar gets on her next vacation with Air Force One(s) running on algae.
So like is this algae firm going to go bankrupt as well and cost all us taxpayers more money so that o’fucko can give them some “stimulus” and then go on vacation?
I would love to see his investment portfolio, The son of a bitch had nothing when he can into office, I would bet he`s set for life. some things should just be illegal. I hope his stupid fucking algie dosent need a pipeline.
Hey lets encourage this. He can sit in a lab somewhere and play with algae and we can back to the the business of fixing America. Until I see him in a motorcade of bicycles he needs to shut his his yap.
Algae!!
If the Republicans don’t run with this one then they deserve to lose!
So I can go down to my pond, scoop up a couple of buckets of algae, bring it to the house, and drop it in my brand spanking new Obam-0-matic algae to fuel converter…..it would be easier just to turn all of Barry’s bullshit into fuel…..unending supply for sure.
Hey CAD Daddy, you and I can get together and create a “green” company called Algendra. I’m sure we can get Obama, Warren Buffoon, Ha-Ha and all the other stupid liberals to invest in our company. We”l go out in business in a few months but only after we raked in all the money. I know an abandoned company in Fremont that we could use as our Algendra headquarter.
Thanks, To You Obama you are now
OUR HIGH PRICE GAS PRESIDENT
and
FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT
If ALGAE were the most efficient source of energy, it would have been discovered as such LONG before now– just because a USURPER comes along and proclaims it so, DOESN’T make it so. He continues to dance around the issue of OIL, the MOST EFFICIENT SOURCE OF ENERGY for things that move about the planet– and he pretends it is NOT. WHAT or perhaps WHO IS IT that has him firmly in the “anti-OIL” camp, when he could be courting their interests to benefit his own? It isn’t as if they are lacking in monetary resources– the environ-NAZI’s must really have something on the Usurper for him to be so obstinately against OIL (and COAL for that matter).
Already has he hands in the till………..?
http://www.nationalalgaeassociation.com/
Become an Algae Farmer…………..lol
Won’t that deprive marine life of their food supply? And then by extension our food supply?
With oil we don’t need to face that problem.
“If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be doing alright.
But since we’re forced to do it your way and we can’t make energy out of it yet we’re scewed.
How about some delithium crystals instead
There’s potential in everything. Fromunda cheese included. Commercail viability for either is a long, long, long way off, though. But it sounds good with the laugh track.
This reminds me of Dukakis advising Iowa farmers to try alternative crops, like Jerusalem artichokes, of course the only market was to other producers for use as seed
Wait, ins’t that discrimination against mold an planckton?
Hey, here’s an idea, let’s just use unicorns instead of algae! Since everyone knows unicorns poop Skittles, we’ll all have free candy! Being an imaginative liberal weenie is so much fun! More rainbows and unicorns and Skittles for everyone! Yea!
If the liberal agenda were really about developing alternative fuel sources, they would benefit by encouraging drilling *all* the oil as quickly as possible to force conversion to a “green” energy supply.
But that’s not happening, is it? It’s all a control and taxation scam – just like AGW.
Yeah! And don’t forget to keep those tires aired up.Stupid moron.
Simpleton
yankeepoodle
Too busy spending my grant money for my upstart SoWindra. We’re gonna build windmills out of solar panels.
Should we question the fact that he is our first affirmative action president? Wow!
Well, we no longer have to wonder who the big Algae Corporations are donating to.
Can we substitute algae for Obama?
Man o man, the GOP campaign material keeps writing itself.
Astute bio-fuels investor, Willie Nelson stands with algae farmers everywhere.
I dunno tho.. kinda sounds like a slippery slope to me
Maybe odumbo meant oil from Al Gore. There`s enough fat and grease from that fat bastard that could keep America going for decades.
We dont need a silver bullet…..a hollow point will do
“you’ve got a bunch of algae out here.”
We also have a bunch of oil, gas and coal, ready to go, you fcking moron.
He will say and do anything to punish us for being Amerikkkans.
You people are unqualified idiots. Algae has been a major player in biofuels for years now with a lot of private investment going into finding ways to better utilize it. But Obama said it so it must be dumb! Hurrrr! Durrrrr!
“We dont need a silver bullet…..a hollow point will do”
Classy.
Really!
Starve a whale to drive your car!
The lefties should love that one.
Uh oh, I did confuse algae with plankton . Sorry/crap
Venezuela, Russia and China with strategic drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico.. and this cheap pretense of a presdent wants to scrape scum to convert to biofuels with no suitable technology or infrastructure.. same as the bs wind and/or solar energy
Russia now receives our rich oil beds off Alaska. China gets Canada’s production after obstructing Keystone..
The ludicrous PR stunt called the Chevy Volt.. and more restrictions for domestic drilling that require reading to speak coherently about..
the absolute worst president in American history.
You fuck-knuckles keep laughing it up. Florida universities are getting some of that sweet, sweet military-industrial complex skrilla. Expect algae diesel in your local WarMachine within 5 years.
On top of that, Obama was kind enough to stick the feed-farms in your local rural (read: chaw-tooth bumpkinville) areas which will intend to provide lasting jobs to those towns which may have already been bereft of jobs following base drawdowns in the 90s. That means more federal cheddar so that you can continue to pay the internet bill, or pump tokens into the Kinko’s computers, or whatever you half-wits do. The Black Guy is giving you folks jobs. Oh, and yer welcome
@Not Likely:
Yeah, it was dumb, and his acolytes are dumber. When you get that algae up and running give us a jingle, until then I will have my clean oil heated home, gas fueled vehicle and goods delivered to local stores. At an affordable price, not Euro-peon tax enhanced jacked up wussy-mobile cost.For the children and mother Gaia. If jug ears can’t get out of the way he and his obscene consumption mate will look for a new gig come November.
On top of that, Obama was kind enough to stick the feed-farms in your local rural (read: chaw-tooth bumpkinville) areas which will intend to provide lasting jobs to those towns which may have already been bereft of jobs following base drawdowns in the 90s.
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You must be one of those afflicted w/some type of algae-borne disease. Certain algae kills dogs. Perhaps it has been creating a deficit w/your brain cell population?
Just when you think life under Obama can’t get any more absurd…
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well, that explains this absurd nonsense then.. It’s just another ineffective and expensive pipe dream that actually accomplishes nothing more than increased costs to basically all consumer goods and impacts oil demand to no significant degree..
thank you for your sophistry
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CLEAN HOUSE!!
CLEAN SENATE!!
CLEAN PRESIDENT!!!!
The Black Guy is giving you folks jobs. Oh, and yer welcome
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Yeah. Well, there is a kind of dolphin that inhabits the Amazon River and it’s Pink. So I don’t give a smottz what color the Potus be.
ANYWAYS. ABout those jobs in “bumpkinville”? Is it because some kind of “census” has them listed as being active? Example: About an hour ago received a call from the “USDA” declaring that our farm was actively operating. They wanted to verify that. I said this place has not been a functioning dairy farm for 20+ years. That seemed surprising to the caller.
Or how about Dead People by the millions that are registered as “active voters”?
Whatever….
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I’m sure that you thought you were expressing a coherent thought somewhere in that garbled thumb-sucking comment. You did not.
we are laughing at you.. and your exceedingly ridiculous vitriol
Ahhh, looks like a contingent of low level SEIU o-bots have been given their weekend marching orders. Wonder what they had to donate, was it 2 or 3 dollars?
What about methane from pigs? I saw it in a Mad Max Movie, so I know it works.
For 50 years, people have discussed turning algae into a food supply, turning it into fuel, etc… If it were cost effective and didn’t require additional, often dangerous chemicals to complete the process, we’d be running our cars on algae based gasoline today.
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your racism is showing imbecile. Why don’t you take all the time you need, you know 30-60 seconds, and explain everything you think you know about Obama “giving you folks jobs” ?
are you up to the challenge? Where in Obama’s unprecedented gov’t expansion did alll these jobs –gov’t jobs notwithstanding materialize? In the much touted and abject failure of his funding of solar energy technology.
Exactly what is it that you think you’re talking about?
DannyBoy, take a look around. You and yours aren’t exactly class’n the joint up, if’n ya know what I mean?
I don’t blame the playa’, ZIP is makin scratch off you folks. I get it. And stop talking for the sockpuppets and rage-junkies, unless you have a mouse in your pocket.
Protip: : Do not read the comments if you wear or require a drool protector.
Armthehomes: Some people are destined to ride the short bus of life. Please ensure that your drool protector is in the correct down position before boarding.
If only cows could fly we’d have beef growing on trees. The left and magical thinking.
yeah?
is that why you blew up the Gulf and ignored it for 5 weeks?
“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.”
how about, not. liar. and where’s that independent study on how the Gulf blew up? 11 people died.
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I know what you mean.. but I don’t believe you do.
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are you drunk/wasted? Or does your conversation always inhabit an imbecilic perspective?
Suddenly you twits are experts in advanced biofuels? I will trust the people who do it for a living, they happen to work next-door, what a coinky-dink.
I know I should feed you reprobates, but here is the plan. It was started under W, so you can decide for yourself how internally sound it is.
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/08/billion-ton-biomass-study-a-10-minute-version
And just WHERE is all this algae supposed to come from.? Enough to make enough gas for all of the cars in the United States, and enough fuel for the heating of homes. Are we giving up our forests and farm land for swamps? I don’t see how in the world he could even let those ignorant words pass his ugly purple lips!!
Bioengineer Jeff Way has seen what happens when the claims of algae biofuel companies get ahead of the science, when their promises of “renewable diesel” slam into the realities of engineering.
He’s been to the bankruptcy auction.
Once the standard-bearer for the algae revolution, GreenFuel Technologies failed almost two years ago. Spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the company promised to convert waste carbon dioxide into fuel-producing algae. It opened a celebrated — and, it turns out, expensive — pilot plant in Arizona. It raised more than $70 million in private funds. Then it went bust.
A former biotech pharmaceutical developer, Way hunted for deals at GreenFuel’s equipment auction.
“It was a very sobering experience to see the death of a biotech company,” said Way, who works on bioenergy at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. “This company just went belly up. And I was buying their light bulbs for pennies on the dollar.”
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/03/29/29greenwire-as-algae-bloom-fades-photosynthesis-hopes-stil-54180.html?pagewanted=all
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I get the distinct impression that you “will trust” any rhetoric consistent to your errant presuppositions.
You sound woefully uninformed as to your subject. You read like an imbecile.
Change We Can Believe In — from the Pond Scum President.
what you fail to understand armed homeless, is that we definitely want alternative to foreign oil imports, competing for oil in a hostile market, and renewable sources
but not in an halfassed destructive and ineffective way..
You don’t stay up with the industry D’pdico. I wouldn’t expect you to though. It’s easier to sit in the cheap seats and heckle. I get it. The US and NATO are already in testing with actual drop-in tech. In fact the Green Fleet rolls out in a couple years. We got some of the caash the military is throwing around, and we are still positioned to be the dominant producer of the technology, unlike solar where china could undercut us. The guy in Arizona was working on a single feed and apparently didn’t realize that water is real expensive in a desert.
They do farm a bit of Tilapia out there though. Tasty fish in a cast-iron with cheesy grits, btw.
For Obama to give a speech on oil shows he’s afraid. For Obama to give a speech on oil THIS ASININE, it shows he’s really afraid. And out of control.
Algae? Huh?
Drilling is a bad idea if you want to get oil?
Wind and solar? After the scandals and failed taxpayer-funded startups we’ve been through over the last year?
Good God, it never ceases to amaze me how this moron tricked so many people into voting for him.
Yep real cost effective: In October 2010, the Navy purchased 20055 gallons on algae biofuel at $424 per gallon.
Even the best scenarios say algae as a fuel source is years away from being cost effective. Algae may turn out to be a viable alternative fuel – or not. We need to drill now, and develop *realistic* alternative fuel sources at the same time. Algae looks a lot better to me than wind or solar, although I’m also impressed by processes that extract fuels and fertilizers from industrial and food production wastes, like http://www.changingworldtech.com/
Get the U.S. out of the oil import business, and tell the ME to get fucked and/or die. Besides, the production areas are going to be highly radioactive for the next few decades.
this pos told us during the campaign in 2008: no problem if gas is $7.00 and so what, electricity is going to sky rocket. then he went on a World Tour or something. yeah, he also saw our fallen soldiers that Memorial Day, too.
two more today. did he see them?
From Scientific American Nov 11
In the past scientists have spent a lot of time trying to make algae produce oil or solve other problems, most famously at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. But the government shut down that program in the 1990s, concluding algae would not be able to compete with oil, due to the expense of systems to grow it, nutrient needs and other hurdles. Given algae’s checkered past, what makes you confident of success?
It’s like the claims of arsenic-eating bacteria: people making extraordinary claims have the obligation to provide extraordinary evidence that their claims are true. I like to win arguments by having the data. Right now, nobody has the data in any of these fields. We have some new tools to approach these same problems. Algae has had a lousy history. There is no guarantee we will succeed either.
Nice try Mr. Arm
Arm the Homeless
is that a new non profit? what about legs?
Toe the Taxpayer
is another worthy cause.
Yeah, X, if you read the text of the speech, he says, “there is no silver bullet”. This is not the time to entrench our dependance on last centuries’ fuel. We move to a new, cleaner tech, we subsidize it just like we have subsidized oil exploration for 60 years.
@Arm
“…we subsidize it just like we have subsidized oil exploration for 60 years.”
Not even remotely correct. I worked 18 years in the business…the government was always a hurdle and never one to give a “boost”.
“Given algae’s checkered past, what makes you confident of success?”
–Massive investment from Europe including multiple feed stock that can adapt to differing AOs and their climates’. They are pretty damn keen to not be held hostage to Russia and the ME. If they can spin this up into retail markets to supplant a portion of vehicle miles with algae, good for them. There are no paradigm shifts in oil-tech coming down the pipe (see what I did there?), so efficiencies squeezed from every sector, every product chain is the new reality.
Defarge, let’s not lie about easily searched facts. The cash doled out for exploration subsidies are in the range of $72 billion over only 6 years. There is cash there for renewables, but some folks in large conventional fuel companies are gonna get gored. That’s where the friction is.
I’m going to proclaim myself (and my aquarium) an algae-farmer and petition the government for a huge-ass loan!
Oh yeah, algae farms…that is the ticket to our energy problem. This is moronic, I would venture to say you would have to farm an area the size of the Pacific to produce enough fuel source to run the Nation for a day.
My plan is much better it is called soylent green extract…libtard’s go in the pot first!
By the way, as an addition to my last post, your brilliant president presents the distinct impression that up until the last couple of days he had never even heard of algae before.
Will the algae be collected by magical dolphins towing skimmers?
“Will the algae be collected by magical dolphins towing skimmers?”
– Naw, they use powdered abortions and then just press the diesel out on shore. As a plus, the pulp is then made into biodegradable Volt body-panels. GREEN!
Soylent Green Extract…the renewable energy source..but then that could dent the Planned Parenthood abortion program. What’s a Progressive Tard to do?
Barack Obama has worked for higher gas prices for years. Some in his administration even admitted it because it would push people to mass transportation and make alternative fuels more attractive. If we could fuel the world on something other than algae, we might just have a solution.
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The EU is about as keen as we are about foreign oil imports, ~50%:
School of International and Public Affairs_ Journal of International Affairs Columbia University_2010
Not surprised he would suggest using slime.
@Arm
$72 billion…cite a source.
Its shocking to see it spelled out, huh?
http://www.eli.org/Program_Areas/innovation_governance_energy.cfm
Of course I want all fossil fuels cut off, how else would I be able to get the world to deteriorate into utter chaos.
Thanks Arm for supporting my cause.
Have Michelle grow some in her magic garden. She’s not eatin the good for you
organic veggies from Whole Foods they ‘plant’ there by the look of her is she?
Not unless they have figured out how to grow Wagu Beef and Vodka.
Oil already there.
Oil is anaerobic decomposition of remains of phytoplankton or algae?
Obama is going to slip folks grant money to make his own ..
OIL????
Alright nitwits. Some of us have to go to work and pay for your hoverounds.
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that reference, eli [Environmental Law Institute] appears to be an environmentalist –EPA– political action group
remember to get ya one of those belts with your name tooled on the back of it Homeless
HaaaaaHaaaaaa! Yeah he is a GENIUS! Right–
Geeee…..Aaaaalgeeeeee…..Hmmmmm- hey he STOLE this idea from Jimmy the Peanut-head, remember?! Well you may not be old enough to remember but this is NOT a new idea!! LOL
You know what the NEXT step is, don’t ya? UNICORN FARTS!!!
Shit, I put some algae in my truck tank and done clogged up my injectors…what the hell barry?