white house Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:39:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Dear Tesla Motors Fans, “You Have to Resolve This On State Level.” Sincerely, The White House https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dear-tesla-motors-fans-resolve-state-level-sincerely-white-house-20140715/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dear-tesla-motors-fans-resolve-state-level-sincerely-white-house-20140715/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:39:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48531 Unlike every other automaker in the United States (we say US, because no other country on the planet has such ridiculous protectionist laws) Tesla Motors does not sell its cars through a franchised dealer network. If you want to buy a Lexus CT 200h, for example, you don’t buy from Lexus itself, but from a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dear-tesla-motors-fans-resolve-state-level-sincerely-white-house-20140715/feed/ 1 48531 White House Has Solar Panels – Finally! https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-finally-20140509/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-finally-20140509/#respond Sat, 10 May 2014 03:07:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47450 In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. What better way to use all that acreage, aside from patrolling security teams? Unfortunately, President Ronald Reagan had the solar panels removed, for which environmental groups have been campaigning for their reinstallation. In October, 2010, President Barack Obama promised […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-finally-20140509/feed/ 0 47450 White House Solar Panels Being Installed, Finally! Again? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-being-installed-finally-again-20130819/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-being-installed-finally-again-20130819/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:42:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40807 Bureaucracy could be the reason that it’s taken some three years for the White House to finally get its solar panel upgrades, or is it thirty-something years and could it be something else? In 2010, a couple of years after the Obama campaign had mentioned its commitment to renewable energy, Obama pledged to install new […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/white-house-solar-panels-being-installed-finally-again-20130819/feed/ 0 40807 Barack Obama Refuses New Solar Panels On The White House https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-solar-panels-white-house-20100914/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/obama-solar-panels-white-house-20100914/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:49:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10323 U.S. president Barack Obama has recently refused a proposal to reinstall solar panels on the White House rooftops. The proposal came from Bill McKibben, the founder of a group of environmental activists, who went to Obama in a biodiesel-powered van. Ex-president Jimmy Carter had installed the proposed solar panels on the White House back in 1979. They used to provide heat and were a logo of America's will to free itself from foreign oil.

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