You ain't gonna believe this Pilgrims, but.....

.... the pencil necked bureaucrats at the Bureau of Land Management (probably at the behest of Obamanation's 'Just Say No' crowd) has decided to stop all solar energy projects. FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS!

Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
By DAN FROSCH ,NY Times

DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see if they can realize their hopes of harnessing power from swaths of sun-baked public land, just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto, Calif. “The Bureau of Land Management land has some of the best solar resources in the world. This could completely stunt the growth of the industry.”
Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, where sunlight drenches vast, flat desert tracts.
Galvanized by the national demand for clean energy development, solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005. They center on the companies’ desires to lease public land to build solar plants and then sell the energy to utilities.
According to the bureau, the applications, which cover more than one million acres, are for projects that have the potential to power more than 20 million homes.

Let's see now, oil hit $143 dollars a barrel yesterday --- an all time high. Electric bills for folks using traditionally produced electricity (oil and coal fired) are skyrocketing with surcharges and rate increases ==== and the Gov'mint says "Whoa" on solar energy production in the middle of the damn desert! That one site in the picture up there produces enough electricity to power 20,000 homes.


Is anybody in charge in Washington? Did the inmates take over the asylum?

And if folks don't get their heads on straight -- we may have Obamantion to worry about: he's already come out against drilling for oil, mining for shale oil, and building nuclear plants. But he ain't agin' everything, he has come out FOR turning off our air conditioning, parking our cars and riding buses, and lowering our standard of living to that of a third world country. You can hear him tell us that everytime he comes out of his leased private jet, leased limo's and SUV's and hotel presidential suites.