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Sen. James Inhofe, (R-Okla.), on the military’s use of alternative fuels and the high costs to taxpayers.
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-- the Pentagon gets the green light to spend valuable defense funds on things like.
Efforts to make biofuels the military's focus on -- energy sources has faced constant debate in congress this year and we sell Republican senator James in -- as a member of the armistice.
-- -- senator.
Welcome back to the show and when I go through these stats.
It is really staggering I mean you look at the air force.
Which paid 59 dollars a gallon.
For 111000.
Gallons.
Alternative fueled the navy spent twelve million dollars -- biofuels at a rate of 26 dollars a gallon.
At a time we're talking are raising taxes.
And and fiscal plant and what financial problems we're in in this country when I read these numbers I wanted to hear my hair out.
How do you think -- on the let's say -- it's worse than that in 09 he had the navy a 424.
Dollars a gallon for 20000 islands.
Now that's feel that on the market that you could survive for three -- -- 424.
Dollars a gallon now I think it is really understand.
You have to keep in mind this president has had -- war on on our defense system he's disarmed America.
He's done away with -- brigade combat teams are chips are at twenty -- C -- your future combat.
System.
And then he'll use the excuse no I have not reduce the budget for the defense but what he's done -- Is moved his green agenda into the under the defendants -- that we're paying for all of this now.
Senator McCain and I.
Took the this out we had to have changes that we made in the -- to keep him from doing that.
One -- a section it said you can no longer use our readiness dollars to -- all this deal and all this Vista.
And then we also had had had a prohibition against using defense dollars to build refineries that can be done in the private sector.
Well on the floor there is her name is pretty much down party lines.
Mark Yugo -- when amendment.
And and Hagan had -- -- went to kill our efforts to keep them from using our defense dollars.
For green agenda.
Does the White House understand that when people are upset about having their taxes raised another a lot of people out there -- -- wanna raise other people's taxes but when you get a sad about having your own taxes raised.
It's because we seem ridiculous spending like this going on and you say if you can't spend my tax dollars responsibly for things that make sense.
I don't wanna see you anymore I mean does anyone get -- senate.
No they don't get this ten minutes -- -- the problem now the excuse they use this this is kind of interest.
They say that this is gonna lead this off of Middle Eastern oil.
Somehow we can who will be using petroleum -- fields.
What that is not true at all if you want to get off in the Middle Eastern oil.
All he'd have to do is open United States to that we can exploit our own rate were the only country in the world.
-- doesn't exploit our own resources and we have more recoverable reserves in coal oil and gas in America.
And then than any other country -- -- actually be totally independent in a matter of weeks.
This is there and we handle this throughout this do you think -- -- -- act as you I -- going out one of the moves it to go on trying to tell people about this -- that -- understand that we're spending.
59.
Dollars a gallon.
On fuel money that we don't -- but is there any way to really stop in his tracks because this this kind of spending makes me really monetary.
There -- -- should make you wanna carry her out there laid back and there is no denying that first big bunch who has that's where he came up with the 200.
I'm -- quarter 24 dollars gallon.
And we said -- we talked about it.
And there's a lot of interest are -- taking my people in my state of Oklahoma they're outraged that.
Somehow this just didn't seem to get out and we have -- -- -- this just remember when Republicans were majority in the house and the senate.
We had Clinton who has a Democrat.
We that work requirements in welfare leak that didn't number of people on welfare down about from about five million to three million.
Okay Obama comes in and so he -- -- in the intimacy takes to work requirements out and now we have people are out.
Real I don't know what you call that he wasn't -- this one next because this one is absolutely insane thank you so much for coming on tonight negotiators time.
-- you big time now for two.
