JOB OPENING: SHOVELING BS FOR OBAMA

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Surprise, surprise this administration willing to invest your tax dollars in every sort of “alternative energy” scheme but that which runs the county (i.e. fossil fuel) is not one of them.

Sheriff Joe & Obama: Jobs are our TOP PRIORITY! From pond scum to bull$$$$$$$$hit.

Obama USDA: Use cow manure for green energy

by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer

President Obama's Department of Agriculture (USDA) committed $5 million today to the construction of a "biogas anaerobic digester" that will use cow manure to heat an ethanol plant and create 15 permanent jobs.

Western Plains Energy, LLC, a Kansas company, will use the money to "utilize waste energy resources from a local cattle feedlot to replace almost 90 percent of the fossil fuels currently used" at the plant.

"Projects such as this are a key part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above approach to American energy that is supporting the development and usage of renewable energy, revitalizing rural economies and creating an America built to last," USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement touting this project as an example of the policies that cut dependence on foreign oil.

"Animal waste from a local feedlot will be the primary feedstock that Western Plains will use for the digester," USDA added. "Support for renewable energy projects such as these is an example of the many ways USDA is helping revitalize rural economies."

USDA expects the project to create 15 permanent jobs and 100 temporary construction jobs.

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Zero Hedge says:

Just when we thought we had seen the epic failure of every single possible "alternative energy" project by this administration, along comes the announcement that the USDA is investing $5 million in a "biogas anaerobic digester" that will use "cow manure to heat an ethanol plant and create 15 permanent jobs." Which for anyone confused, is roughly exactly what it sounds like. Perhaps if "Hope and Change" is a little passé now, a far more appropriate slogan for the 2012 Campaign will be "From Bullsh*t to Jobs, and Back Again."

Let's see now, it’s heating an ethanol plant (another subsidized “alternative fuel”). And how much will each BS shoveling job cost the tax payer?

So how many s*** shovelers does it take to run a "biogas anaerobic digester"? Apparently 15. At $333,333 a poop, pardon pop.