Obama says "no" to the solar panels on the White House

The expedition started from Unity, Maine, where he lay for some time the solar panels installed in the White House Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan that he decided to remove, in an act of defiance against renewable energy. On board a van powered by biodiesel, a group of ecologists led by Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature" and the recent "Eaarth" - attempted to carry thermal plates back to Washington to challenge President Obama to re-install them for their symbolic value
Solar Panel in the Withe House.
      But Obama has declined the offer-perhaps to avoid comparison with Carter, and environmentalists have had to turn back to the old thermal plates on their backs.  Even the offer of the California company Sungevity, which has offered to do a fresh install in the White House with the latest technology has served to discourage presidential aides, who have remembered though Obama's commitment to "encourage" renewables and the Solar Panel in the Withe House. with 80,000 million dollars.  

Solar Panel in the Withe House

  "I do not want to accept the panel was Carter who brought us and have said they will continue deliberating to decide if they are installed in the White House one day," said Bill McKibben after the frustrating event. "We have told them it would be nice if you decide soon, given the pace at which climate is deteriorating Solar Panel in the Withe House.."
      Bill McKibben recalled how Carter was ahead of the times and decided to install thermal plates in 1979 to provide hot water at the presidential mansion. His promise and hope was to hold off on the roof of the White House until 2000, but Ronald Reagan decided to disassemble just two years later.

Solar Panel in EEUU

McKibben is aware that the climate movement in the United States "will inevitably have to travel back to leap forward." For the second consecutive year, the most emblematic activist has called the United States October 10 vindicating hundreds of events around the globe and under the auspices of 350.org, the campaign for a global reduction of CO2 parts per million in the atmosphere Solar Panel in the Withe House..
"The fossil fuel industry has planted resistance to change and has been boycotting the law of the climate," McKibben complaint. "Clearly we will not see federal action over the next two years, so that the solution is back in our hands. We will use that time to build the movement that this country and the world need ... We will continue asking the White House is converted to solar power. President Obama should lead by example Solar Panel in the Withe House.. "