Yesterday, President Obama went to Nellis Air Force Base, as we know, to tout solar and wind energy. And his rhetorical appeal was to tie that to our consumption of foreign oil, only further emphasizing his illiteracy on the issues or his expectation of yours.

But the most interesting part is that (as I’ve been predicting to colleagues) he dropped Spain as his case study. All Spring, not an energy speech went by without Obama waxing eloquent about Spain as a model for economic development driven by alternative energy. Gabriel Calzada’s research on the disastrous economic effects of Spain’s embrace of renewables . . . complicates that argument. So instead of touting Spain, the president (per my recent predictions) substituted Denmark.

“Today, projects like the one at Nellis are still the exception to the rule, unfortunately. America produces less than 3 percent of our electricity through renewable sources of energy like wind and solar — less than 3 percent. In contrast, Denmark produces 20 percent of their electricity through wind. We pioneered solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in generating it, even though they get less sun than we do. They certainly get less sun than Nevada. (Laughter.)”

His claim about the Danes today is as risky for him, on a general myth-to-fact basis, as his earlier claims about Spain. They are, after all, untrue. Expect a similar — and similarly embarassing — thumping of this new mole in the whack-a-mole game we’re forced to play as we try to keep up with the green industry’s myth-building campaign.