Why Obama is Absurd to Suggest Algae
by Newt Gingrich

Dear Fellow Conservative,

We knew the people writing President Obama's energy speeches didn't know very much about American oil and gas potential when he started telling us that some of the largest untapped oil reserves in the world couldn't do anything to affect fuel prices. But we didn't know they were quite this hopeless. When the President told them he wanted to focus on "green" energy sources in his speech, I don't think he meant it literally.

That's one of the most rational explanations I can think of for how President Obama ended up giving a speech in which he told Americans that the solution to the rising cost of gasoline could be algae. After all, he reasoned, "You've got a bunch of algae out here, right? If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we'll be doing all right."

This is a classic move of the Left: observe a real world problem (high gasoline prices) and propose a solution that is totally disconnected from the practical realities of the world and has little chance of success (algae).