Get This: Steve Pearce Promotes Renewable Energy, Bio-Fuel Development -- In Argentina!

On Monday, clueless Steve Pearce (Trying To Fool Voters Again, NM-02) posted an article on his website highlighting the development of the algae-based biofuels industry -- in Argentina. While Pearce is busy promoting green energy in Argentina, there is a growing algae-based biofuels industry right developing under his nose right here in southern New Mexico that he apparently doesn’t know exists. 

How would Pearce know? He's made it a tradition to avoid traveling the 2nd District and meeting constituents ever since he first got elected to Congress in November 2002. He's shown absolutely no interest in finding ways to help develop renewable energy jobs here in New Mexico. In fact, he's shown little interest in proposing anything concrete to help to attract and develop jobs for New Mexicans, period. Of any kind.

I wonder why Pearce is taking such an interest in what happens in Argentina. Is some big campaign donor of his hooked into business deals in South America? Does he think it's more important to lower the unemployment rate in a foreign nation than right here at home? Is he a secret agent working for business interests in Argentina? We'll probably never know.

If Pearce got out more, he'd know that Sapphire Energy has projects in Luna and Dona Ana Counties and the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM) in Eddy County, which are all algae-based biofuel refineries in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District. Both Sapphire and CEHMM are part of a growing industry in New Mexico that is expected to create high paying, stable jobs in the American energy production sector. Click here and here to learn more about how this industry is blossoming in New Mexico.

“This shows how out of touch Congressman Pearce is with southern New Mexico. He is completely unaware of an industry that is creating jobs and fueling the economy right in his own backyard! Here’s an industry that will play a critical role in ending our dangerous dependence of foreign energy sources, and Congressman Pearce is saying we ought to be doing it in Argentina,” said Jessica Borchert, Harry Teague's Press Secretary. “I don’t know what it is about Argentina, but I bet New Mexicans think that Congressman Pearce should be worried a little less about them and a lot more about us.”