Newt Gingrich: Obama’s Algae Energy Policy Is Like Something From a SNL Skit (Video)

Newt Gingrich mocked Barack Obama on his ‘Algae Across America’ energy plan tonight On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.

 “The idea that a President of the United States would say you can’t drill but I’ve got a jar of algae will strike most people as something from a Saturday Night Live skit.” 

 True.

Newt had made similar comments at a speech in Washington state on Thursday.
ABC reported:

Newt Gingrich has been hitting Obama’s energy speech since the president delivered it Thursday, calling the speech funny enough to be on SNL and “something worthy of Leno or Letterman.”

Gingrich’s biggest talking point about Obama’s speech attacks the president for his embrace of investments in biofuels such as those made from algae.

He is referring to a point in Obama’s speech when the president said, “We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance known as algae.”

“Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17% of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America,” Obama said.

On Thursday night, Gingrich mocked the president’s speech in front of an Idaho crowd, by suggesting that he should take a bottle of algae with him and “go around and we can have the Obama solution.”

“And maybe what we ought to do at Newt.org is we ought to get t-shirts that say ‘You choose.’ Gingrich went on to suggest the slogans, ‘You have Newt: Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less. You have Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.”