He insists the economy will be going gangbusters again just as soon as we start running it on algae and windmills. The president’s energy policies prefer fantasy to reality. Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously.

Seaweed in Your Gas Tank 

The president’s energy policies prefer fantasy to reality. By Charles Krauthammer

Instead, Obama offers what he fancies to be the fuels of the future. You would think that he’d be a tad more modest today about his powers of divination after the Solyndra bankruptcy, the collapse of government-subsidized Ener1 (past makers of the batteries of the future), and GM’s suspension of production — for lack of demand — of another federally dictated confection, the flammable Chevy Volt.Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the past,” he contemptuously calls it. To the American worker who doesn’t commute by government motorcade and is getting fleeced every week at the pump, oil seems very much a fuel of the present — and of the foreseeable future.

Deterred? Hardly. Our undaunted seer of the energy future has come up with his own miracle fuel: algae. Yes, green slime, upon which Steven Chu’s Energy Department will be sprinkling yet another $14 million of taxpayer money.

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Obama’s History Lesson 

by Mark Steyn

Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously. 

Delivering his big speech on energy at Prince George’s Community College, he insisted the American economy will be going gangbusters again just as soon as we start running it on algae and windmills. 

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