Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting at Windmill Turbine Factory as Gas Prices Rise

If Obama is looking for relief in gas prices, he is looking in the wrong places. Earlier this week, Obama held a town hall meeting at a wind turbine manufacturer--a foreign wind turbine manufacturer. From the AP:


The president spoke at a town hall meeting at Gamesa Technology Corp., a Spanish company that makes giant turbines that use wind to generate electricity. According to the White House, it is the first overseas company of its kind to set up shop in the U.S.

Back in Washington, negotiations continued on a budget deal to avert a government shutdown Friday and Obama urged lawmakers to get it done. The president said he wants to cut spending, but not at the expense of cutting priorities like energy and education.

As fuel prices rise because of growing demand worldwide and political unrest in oil-producing nations in North Africa and the Middle East, drivers are feeling pinched at the pump. Republicans blame Obama and his policies and he, in turn, is striving to show the public that he gets it.

Striving he shows he gets it? By going to a windmill turbine manufacturer? How is this showing the public he gets it when wind mills have failed to live up to their hype everywhere around the world including Spain? Obama doesn't know the first thing about energy, and if he did he wouldn't be talking to a foreign windmill, he would be meeting with American oil companies to discuss where are the best places to drill in the United States to increase production to lower costs.

Here's what Dear Leader had to say while he was there:

"I'm just going to be honest with you. There's not much we can do next week or two weeks from now," the president told workers at a wind turbine plant (one operated by Spanish company Gamesa). "Gas prices? They're going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes, and that's going to take a couple of years to have serious effect."

Broader changes? You mean like hope these windmills might push our cars down the road? If gas prices continue to rise, that little recession of 2008 is going to look quite minor compared to what's ahead and now created by the windmill ignorance of Barack Obama.