Obama’s Energy Sec: ‘We Do Not Have A Choice’ But To Go With ‘Clean Energy’

And, apparently, the debate on Global Warming is over.

October 7, 2010 at 9:57 am - CNS News
Dateline: New Jersey
DontTreadOnMe   October 7th, 2010 - 10:01 am

Democrats: The Party of No (Choices)

vwhizbang   October 7th, 2010 - 10:04 am

Of course we have a choice. Drill, Baby, Drill.

Ok Trolls, jump on that.

carter137   October 7th, 2010 - 10:05 am

Salazar, you seem like a nice guy, but you are terribly misguided. The free market will eventually move us toward renewable energy without the government taxing the hell out of utility companies and causing our utility bills to go up.

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 10:08 am

Doubting global warming is like doubting the Holocaust.

E_Vasquez   October 7th, 2010 - 10:09 am

What will we need energy for when we don't have any commerce left?

Naive @$$es.

Makkem   October 7th, 2010 - 10:10 am

The ass can pull the wool over the eyes of idiots , but I went to school . I read the books and did the math. This is nothing but a political fix designed to end America . Fraud !
We have a choice , we just need the damned socialist elitists off of our back.

Dave_in_Oregon   October 7th, 2010 - 10:11 am

We have billions of gallons of oil right beneath our own soil.
Stop the liberal enviromental midgets from destroying our economy by forcing us to drill for oil offshore and creating an even worse enviro disaster.

Remove every liberal / democrat from any and every governmental position.

fantum   October 7th, 2010 - 10:11 am

Actually, we will have a choice on November 2nd. The choice is simple…

If your goal is for America to continue drifting toward jobless poverty, living off food stamps, the government dole and government housing, entrusting your health care and your children's future to government bureaucrats… Vote with the Liberal Democrats.

Or…

If you prefer living by what you have EARNED and paying your own way, being responsible for your own health and owning your own home, being responsible for your own future and for your children's future… Vote with the Tea Party and Republicans.

Democrats – The Party of Hate… http://usataxpayer.org/url.asp?Show=75233528

Democrats – The Culture of Corruption… http://usataxpayer.org/?0037628434

ENOUGH WITH "I the Obama" – Let's return to "We the People!"

freelemming   October 7th, 2010 - 10:11 am

We do not have a choice but to throw Obama's ass out of office.

catzmeow   October 7th, 2010 - 10:11 am

I doubt that.

Subsalior   October 7th, 2010 - 10:12 am

Salazar…..a man without integrity…..a man without convictions……a man without intelligence…..

These are the people that make up "Barry & Co.,Inc."…….

NOVEMBER…….

DontTreadOnMe   October 7th, 2010 - 10:13 am

Salazar is only interested in "the free market" if we're all required to purchase solar panels and light bulbs and natural gas from the companies he and the other Green Scammers have purchased tons of shares in.

solgreatman   October 7th, 2010 - 10:13 am

Theres always a choice,I chose the people coming out in mass to put you ,obama,pelosi etc in jail for treason.

antilibtards   October 7th, 2010 - 10:14 am

Cap n trade is a jobs killer. Green economy bs. I will agree with vastly increasing the numer of US nuclear reactors. At a minimum an increase of at least 10x the present amount of reactors in our country. Nuclear is 100% green and great for US jobs, our economy and the long term future of America.

There in just 3 mins I have created more jobs than obama has created in two years.

Subsalior   October 7th, 2010 - 10:14 am

Where's the proof…..the proof that hasn't been "doctored" that is……

DontTreadOnMe   October 7th, 2010 - 10:15 am

Except that global warming is called climate change now by the Leftist Green Charlatans since the "warming" part has been debunked, and Smed, tell me of a period in which the climate was NOT changing.
Are you an ice-age denier?
Are you a Medieval "warm period" denier?

The Holocaust, however, was real.

UrinalMint   October 7th, 2010 - 10:16 am

I want you to think about this for a moment. He is a proponent of alternate energy including solar. He is wearing a hat. Thus his brain is not as cooked as most DimoCraps.

What an a$$pony!!!

buelldog   October 7th, 2010 - 10:18 am

These people, Obama, Salazar, Sebelius, Pelosi, Reid, etc need to be removed from office immediately before they damage this country more than what they have. Their policies are based on LIES!!!

UrinalMint   October 7th, 2010 - 10:18 am

Not ture. There are still federal employees trying to make it through the healthcare bill.

flytiegoode   October 7th, 2010 - 10:19 am

I wonder how much this is gonna cost us taxpayers and just where the money we pony up is going to go

DontTreadOnMe   October 7th, 2010 - 10:19 am

Or ever will in his sorry lifetime.

BHO_UMM_UMM_UMM   October 7th, 2010 - 10:19 am

How many incompetent, Marxist, lying sacks of shi t is Obama going to cart into D.C. to populate his regime?

antilibtards   October 7th, 2010 - 10:19 am

good point

BHO_UMM_UMM_UMM   October 7th, 2010 - 10:21 am

Are you as happy about global warming as you are about the Holocaust, SmegmaleyB?

flytiegoode   October 7th, 2010 - 10:21 am

smed, you haven't been right on anything you've posted. You need to go out and buy some common sense

LookAndSee   October 7th, 2010 - 10:22 am

SmedleyB

If I were you, I would not even use the word "Holocaust" in your liberal posts.
Not good.
And your using the phrase flipantly as you just did is REALLY not good.

Maybe say something like:
"Doubting global warming is like doubting Ted Kennedy tried to save that drowning woman."
That's better.

workingla8   October 7th, 2010 - 10:25 am

won't happen – you buy things you perceive you need. Smed's diet consists entirely of kool-aid – no need for breath mints or common sense. At any rate, I'm pretty sure things like common sense aren't covered by food stamps anyway, so even if he was looking for it, I don’t think he has a way to pay for it.

MrKafirCoyote   October 7th, 2010 - 10:28 am

Sounds like his a$$ is on the line by his supporters.

Somebody make sure nothing happens to him.

I don't want national holiday every other day of the week.

smellyfinger   October 7th, 2010 - 10:29 am

The Democrats
don't want you to know
that to make steel you need Coal
because wind power is not very powerful
and only works when the winds blows

scramasax   October 7th, 2010 - 10:33 am

I know Smed and they didn't believe in ManBearPig either but we know better,huh.

Amer1can   October 7th, 2010 - 10:36 am

Is the cowboy hat supposed to add credence to his words?

agreatsign   October 7th, 2010 - 10:39 am

No pinhead, it is you who do not have a choice!
The will of the people will prevail regardless of how desperately you would like to drive up our energy costs and further regulate every aspect of our lives.
November and 2012 cannot come fast enough!

claspur   October 7th, 2010 - 10:40 am

This Energy Czar got into Barry's crack….. again. *sigh
If their isn't a choice, why did we just give Brazil $2bn. to start offshore deep-drilling (deeper) down there?

You anti-Americans pulled this same type of crap under Dhimmi Carter, remember?

Chuck47   October 7th, 2010 - 10:43 am

Please depart the planet soon. I won't even try to say how ignorant you sound in this post and every other post you place on this site. You are a fool if you believe the things you say.

DontTreadOnMe   October 7th, 2010 - 10:45 am

And elitist NIMBY leftists don't want wind turbines near their sprawling compounds.

claspur   October 7th, 2010 - 10:45 am

Not How Come, but Why?

Why won't you listen to what the rest of the world is saying to Soetoro? Stop the spending. You're screwing-up the global economy, president Soetoro.

Grace656   October 7th, 2010 - 10:48 am

Believing global warming theories is like believing the holocaust deniers.

(Is this a stupid conversation, or what?)

Navy Gentleman   October 7th, 2010 - 10:50 am

I know you are smarter than that.

dumpbox   October 7th, 2010 - 10:53 am

We would require a massive amount of green energy production in order to just keep up with present energy consumption. Green solutions are expensive, and this country is broke. Unless we put offshore windmill farms along the entire shore line, plus the entire desert of Arizona in solar, plus dam every river, we cannot generate enough energy for present consumption, let alone for future consumption with population growth and plug-in cars. It simply cannot be done. Salazar is just another libtard big on dreams, and completely disconnected from the logistics of reality.

PilgrimPatriot   October 7th, 2010 - 10:55 am

Smedley is rabidly anti-Jewish and does not believe that holocaust actually took place, so he used that analogy deliberately to bait people.

Diptera   October 7th, 2010 - 10:55 am

MaoBama promised to destroy the coal industry and people in coal country voted for him anyway – if it were not for the damage to the rest of the country I would say they deserve what they get which will be no jobs and no economy and no future. Shame on you people in Pennsylvania and other coal producing states.

Navy Gentleman   October 7th, 2010 - 10:57 am

Just another effort to bring America down by the left.

Mr. Secretary, you are earning a one way ticket to your new home in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the 'new land' for the deported traitors of America.

Diptera   October 7th, 2010 - 10:57 am

He could use wind power – the faster he lies the more power for the prompter – he might even be able to light the entire auditorium.

Navy Gentleman   October 7th, 2010 - 10:58 am

"Remove every liberal / democrat from any and every governmental position."

Bingo! We have a winning solution.

DarthShatner   October 7th, 2010 - 11:00 am

well played! +10

Democrat Decimation   October 7th, 2010 - 11:02 am

No one is listening to you anymore. I guess your buddy, the Hitler of Iran, denies Global Warming too. What an azzhat. -103. LOL.

gwar5   October 7th, 2010 - 11:02 am

You gotta be friggin kidding me!!
These douche bags are going to try to pass some sort of cap and trade during lame duck now, aren't they?

Global warming is dead and gone and buried. It's a fraud, these marxists have all been exposed as frauds in this administration on top of the other frauds, so why are they doing this now? Do they think they can get by with this??
.

SunshineConnie   October 7th, 2010 - 11:03 am

Oh yes, we do have a choice over more subsidies for inefficient energy sources that do not work. It is called the BALLOT BOX in NOVEMBER.

Diptera   October 7th, 2010 - 11:04 am

I don't have a problem believing that the Earth is warming – that is what got us out of the last ice age. But ice cap melting has also been observed on Mars too so that precludes human causes for warming that seems to be occurring in the solar system, not just on Earth.

"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/0...

DarthShatner   October 7th, 2010 - 11:05 am

When someone tells you that you do not have a choice, what they are really telling you is that they want to control you.

gwar5   October 7th, 2010 - 11:08 am

We do have a choice you idiot, and start by stopping the moratorium on oil and put our people back to work, you liars.

We also have 1 Trillion barrels of oil in the oil shales — that's right — 1 Trillion, 4 x the amount the Saudi's have, and we know how to get it out cheaply.

We are also the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, and coal — we are an energy superpower — we have no choice to start using it because
we are broke from listening to commies to want to destroy our country.
.

Hailodumbo   October 7th, 2010 - 11:14 am

yea, unless they are killing babies. They are pathetic

Hailodumbo   October 7th, 2010 - 11:17 am

enough, please. you are embarrassing yourself. Go back to your X-box, or Bing or cartoons.. something…. You are very stupid.

Eileen for Freedom   October 7th, 2010 - 11:18 am

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Coyote12   October 7th, 2010 - 11:18 am

Ahh the daily retardation from the left by comparing Apples to Oranges. So when exactly did the Ice Age end? Here's a hint tard. It hasn't yet. We are still in it. Maybe if you idiot Liberals actually looked up the definition of an Ice Age you would understand why Global Warming is BS.

Hailodumbo   October 7th, 2010 - 11:19 am

This guy looks like Larry David and he's almost as funny

UrinalMint   October 7th, 2010 - 11:28 am

As many as it takes to fill the orange jumpsuits that have been ordered for January 2013

Bimmcorp   October 7th, 2010 - 11:30 am

Well, I choose OIL, Hasbro……….Drill, baby, DRILL!!!!!!……..we got lots of it right here in the good old U.S.A……..

Missy8s   October 7th, 2010 - 11:31 am

Let's see…

An ill-founded rumor perpetuated by sycophantic progressives based on personal opinions and the biased observations of scientists with predetermined conclusions in order to 'redistribute wealth' and establish a totalitarian global government…

I mean, what could possibly be wrong with that…?

Pssst…!!!

AlGore "owns" the Chicago exchange for "carbon credits", if cap and tax gets through he'll be the world's first carbon TRILLION-AIRE and Jeffery Immelt will be the second…

jds4311   October 7th, 2010 - 11:31 am

WOW – that was a brilliant analogy. did you get that from the recent logic portion of the public school SAT format???

knobby05   October 7th, 2010 - 11:33 am

The next Ice Age is just around the corner. Now that will be a problem. Not this BS global warming scam

LibertyWriter   October 7th, 2010 - 11:34 am

Is that the cowboy?

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 11:37 am

Indeed! But using the same logic, you "hate the environment." How dare you ask for proof.

BHO_UMM_UMM_UMM   October 7th, 2010 - 11:42 am

What a beautiful image that conjures up.

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 11:42 am

An ill-founded rumor perpetuated by sycophantic progressives based on personal opinions and the biased observations of scientists with predetermined conclusions in order to 'redistribute wealth' and establish a totalitarian global government…

How much of our wealth has been redistributed to Israel?

mommypatriot1   October 7th, 2010 - 11:42 am

Yeah, when the polar bear body count gets to be around 6mill let me know.

DiggyOrange   October 7th, 2010 - 11:44 am

Fear not American Patriots, we are going to throw the bums out on there asses !

mommypatriot1   October 7th, 2010 - 11:45 am

Remember Navy Gent, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so."

BobSalem   October 7th, 2010 - 11:47 am

The reason they have no choice is because after November they will never have another chance….

billyrayband   October 7th, 2010 - 11:47 am

Kenny is about as brain dead as you get it and still stand up.

Deusexmachina   October 7th, 2010 - 11:51 am

Well, I'm starting to doubt you're even an American…….

TexasStomp   October 7th, 2010 - 11:52 am

TYPO ALERT!

That headline should read:

"I have no choice but to act like a gov't employ and abuse my power by identifying a problem that is not a really a problem and insisting the gov't therefore has no choice but to solve the problem regardless of their abysmal history of solving problems!"

frikkin nazi!

Deusexmachina   October 7th, 2010 - 11:56 am

Keep this crap up, Kenny, and we'll have no choice………

Navy Gentleman   October 7th, 2010 - 11:56 am

Thanks, I do have to be reminded from time to time.
:)

BobSalem   October 7th, 2010 - 11:57 am

Doubting global warming is like doubting Global Cooling……, pushed repeatedly by the NY Times and MSM, (Lame stream media?) throughout the 1970s. Same criminals, different names.

Question here SmedleyB, is there anything wrong in the world that is not part of your hated towards Israel?

Wsorrian   October 7th, 2010 - 11:58 am

I can prove the holocaust. Can you prove global warming? I would love to see you try in spite of the fact that temperatures have decreased even though CO2 levels have risen.

By the way, haven't you heard? It's not global warming anymore. They changed that to climate change when that pesky climate would go along with those computer models. Since then it has agains been rebranded as "global climate disruption". No matter what name they give it, no matter how much they lie about the temperature data, no matter how many warm outliers are kept and cold outliers are discarded, they can't reconcile the fact that real climate change has very little to do with human activity.

On a related note, you are still as dumb as a box of rocks.

Wsorrian   October 7th, 2010 - 12:00 pm

None considering they invest an equal amount in America, you idiot. Guess where they buy all there evil joo weapons!!!!!

Not surprised you wouldn't account for that. It doesn't fit the idiot narrative.

MrsT   October 7th, 2010 - 12:05 pm

Bullshit!!!!

Wsorrian   October 7th, 2010 - 12:06 pm

That doesn't even make sense. Is this the kind of ridiculous thinking that passes as logical thinking for leftists? How was your statement "using the same logic"? They were completely unrelated. I should hope that this isn't the best that leftists have in terms of intellectual capacity. No liberal can ever claim again, that "they" are the intellectuals. Not after these comments.

BobPDX   October 7th, 2010 - 12:06 pm

Well now, what do we have here, another fake cowboy politician.

Slap a cowboy hat on a socialist and what do ya get? A socialist.

Global waming "science" is a hoax and a crime against the free world as we know it.

And you know it smelly.

Primer   October 7th, 2010 - 12:11 pm

Note to Kenny…………………..No one believes this sh*t anymore. Move on to some other imagined problem will ya, your starting to bore us…………….

BobPDX   October 7th, 2010 - 12:13 pm

When Obama and the others have control over our oil, you better know they will stick a straw in our oil fields until the land caves in.

They don't give a S&%T about the envionment.

It's the money they care about.

We should arrest Al Gore in November for lieing to congress and high crimes against our country.

Al Gore works for Cliner Perkins and they have billions invested in green technology.

"Let the filthy, be filthy still, when the man comes around"

Missy8s   October 7th, 2010 - 12:14 pm

Not one penny.

45coltauto   October 7th, 2010 - 12:21 pm

Rubbish! The shale in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming is at least 1.3 trillion barrels. That is 3 hundred years of fossil fuels. The Bogs in Canada is at least equal that and quite likely considerably more. Than there is the Nat Gas deposits that are overflowing and, and, and, and.
The solution is to close the government and burn the politicians like Yuletide logs.
We may be able to do that after November 2.
Stay warm this winter. Burn an incumbent politician on November 2.

father_moray   October 7th, 2010 - 12:22 pm

Obama is Death…Cap n Trade is Death…Democrats are Death for America…end this insane Regime. VOTE right up their pie hole…

TalkingDust   October 7th, 2010 - 12:26 pm

Yep, we don't have any choice but to go with green energy, like oil, coal, and natural gas. Where's the stupid idea come from that these energy sources are "dirty?" Oil, coal and gas are all "organic" and "natural" commodities, produced by the good ol' earth we all live on, which in turn was made by G-D, the footstool's wise provider of all things necessary for man's survival, flourishing, and happiness. We've also been given the technological know-how to create other, synthetic, forms of green energy, too, like electrical and nuclear power, (which also is used to create electrical energy).

Wind and solar both are fraught with various difficulties, rendering them too expensive to be efficient. Let Ken and the libs run their cars and trucks with hamsters running on wheels in the engine compartment to generate enough juice from solar panels on the roof if they like. Those of us with brains will continue to power our American economy with the clean, green energy supplies of oil, coal and natural gas, that G-D in His infinite wisdom gave to us to use. Maybe in a couple hundred years, scientists will figure out how to harness cold fusion or nuclear technology in such a way to run our vehicles.

smartguy35   October 7th, 2010 - 12:28 pm

this is a case in which the man wearing the white cowboy hat is the villian "drill baby,drill" thats your solution we can't switch energy now it won't be possible for years and they know this it's just more liberal propaganda

wilmac   October 7th, 2010 - 12:44 pm

following algore is like following adolf hitler..

NewOrleansAnn   October 7th, 2010 - 1:03 pm

Hey Jack Arse, tell me how solar and wind will power tanks and planes should we go to war?

This administration has nothing on it's mind but power and money. They could not care less about our national security.

And that isn't even bringing up how their agenda is goiing to drive us into a backwards nation. How will we run our factories, or get to work?

These rotten criminals all belong in jail. They're selling us under the bus. This includes gore, kerry, and even people like lindsey graham and lieberman. Such disappointments.

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 1:03 pm

None considering they invest an equal amount in America

Give me your money and I will "invest" it by hiring you to mow my lawn.

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 1:03 pm

What?

SmedleyB   October 7th, 2010 - 1:06 pm

It is. See, I don't need to actually provide any proof, do I?

patrioticamerican   October 7th, 2010 - 1:10 pm

You are such a goof ball! LOL You never say anything of value. Just stupid comments like this that ensures you will be barraged with replies.

Only an intellectually-retarded person would blindly accept the global warming meme. And, and even more intellectually-retarded person would compare AGW to the Holocaust.

How do you managed to figure out the keys on the keyboard, Smed?

tonkaslim   October 7th, 2010 - 1:20 pm

Moronic and deeply offensive. There are mountains of evidence of the Holocaust: film, still photos, documents and thousands upon thousands of first person testimonies. There are crematoriums, mass graves, and millions of people who vanished. "Global warming" is a theory, and one that the proponents refuse to subject to scrutiny— in contempt of the scientific method. What is the parallel between denial of a documented historical event and a scientific theory which proposes to predict the future? You know nothing about the Holocaust or science.

mommypatriot1   October 7th, 2010 - 1:22 pm

quoting Greenpeace isn't proof

Jamesb   October 7th, 2010 - 1:35 pm

Jews PAY taxes too you lunatic. There's ZERO doubt that American Jews PAY in MORE than Israel gets going out.

Doubt it? YOU prove what you're saying, when you CAN'T I'll post numbers to PROVE what I'm saying. Just the Jews living in NYC, Chicago, Cleveland and L.A. pay MORE than enough to offset the 3 or so billion that goes to Israel.

Don't LIE about that number either – I have the tables ready to smack you down – NAZI pos.

Jamesb   October 7th, 2010 - 1:37 pm

Not to mention personal and corporate income tax. Law firms with Jewish heritage lawyers filing as LLC's should just about cover it.

Jamesb   October 7th, 2010 - 1:43 pm

Investigate ALL these connected "insider" Democrats starting in January.

They stand to PROFIT FIRST and the MOST from "green energy" and "defeating anthropogenic global warming".

Rahm, Alexrod, Gore, Frankin Raines, the f//king Clintons, Obama by proxy, Soros (to name just a few) – they will ALL get RICH(ER) from PIMPING the false fear and FALSE science of "anthropogenic global warming".

Nevermind that the f//king Chinese and India will continue to pump out coal fired smoke ln amounts growing exponentially every year – how does committing economic SUICIDE on the altar of the "GREEN GOD" of "Gobal Warming" make things "better" if the Chinese and Indians IGNORE these fake mandates?

Answer – it doesn't DO CRAP – except meet Obama's goals to make the United States WEAKER and more VUNERABLE.

IMPEACH this BASTARD NOW.

garytheferry   October 7th, 2010 - 2:16 pm

Quit driving your car then. Only petroleum has the BTU's, lubrication ability and economics to run modern societies. Green energy is a hobby and fraud.

Patriot66   October 7th, 2010 - 2:47 pm

I want my lightbulbs back! http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/gener...

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