{"id":4520,"date":"2014-02-26T03:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:37:50","slug":"mcconnell-sought-grant-but-mocked-obama-biofuel-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/mcconnell-sought-grant-but-mocked-obama-biofuel-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Sought Grant but Mocked Obama Biofuel Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell sought grant money for a company seeking to develop biofuel from algae, then a few years later called Obama&#8217;s proposal for a similar plan a &#8220;pipe dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to deride President Barack Obama for a speech that called for developing biofuel from algae \u2014 dismissing it as nothing more than a &#8220;pipe dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the American people realize that a president who&#8217;s out there talking about algae when they&#8217;re having to choose between whether to buy groceries or to fill up the tank is the one who&#8217;s out of touch,&#8221; McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>But a few years earlier, McConnell, R-Ky., himself worked to obtain a $30 million grant for a company that wanted to build a plant in Springfield, Ky., to turn algae, switchgrass, corncobs and other such materials into ethanol \u2014 a plant that ultimately was never built and a grant that was never spent.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/02\/13\/mcconnell-sought-grant-but-mocked-obama-biofuel-plan\/5466995\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/02\/13\/mcconnell-sought-grant-but-mocked-obama-biofuel-plan\/5466995\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell sought grant money for a company seeking to develop biofuel from algae, then a few years later called Obama&#8217;s proposal for a similar plan a &#8220;pipe dream.&#8221; Two years ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to deride President Barack Obama for a speech that called for developing biofuel from algae \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,56,611,577,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-energy","category-government","category-grants","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}