Tag Archives: The Green Deal

Dam The Stimulus

April 29, 2009 – 11:10 am

Kentuckiana will see even more stimulus-related construction: The Army Core of engineers recently announced they had discovered a chest filled with $200 million in gold coins, which they’ve decided to spend on the region’s green infrastructure (kind of like at the end of ‘The Goonies’ where they save the town from greedy developers and bumbling crooks!). [...]

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Beshear’s Car Talk

April 10, 2009 – 12:59 pm

Plans are underway to construct a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant/energy research institute in Central Kentucky thanks to a partnership between UK, U of L, and The Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The plans — largely spearheaded by Gov. Beshear — involve construction of a facility that would aid the nation’s ailing automakers in the research [...]

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If Oprah Can Do It…

April 9, 2009 – 8:39 pm

… then why not the President? We’re speaking of Barack Obama’s “accelerated” purchase of 17,600 new fuel-efficient, state-of-the-art, self-driving automobiles in his latest attempt at saving the world.
And the auto industry  — well, only the retarded part of the auto industry: GM, Chrysler, & Ford — all of whom stand to gain from the administration’s [...]

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