Politically-correct cronyism

At least these companies didn’t go broke. But they successfully suckered us for a nice chunk of change to set themselves up in non-energy businesses that produce stuff at a profit, something that green energy can’t do without massive subsidies.

If green energy is so good, let the greenies get their cash from private venture capitalists, not the taxpayers.

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Real life “shovel-ready jobs” are ready to roll, Mr. President

Barack Obama claims to love “shovel-ready jobs.”

He promised that if Congress passed his $800 BILLION stimulus bill, this money (60% extracted from taxpayers, 40% borrowed from China) would be sprinkled around the county to jumpstart infrastructure projects which were vetted and ready to roll.

Congress obliged.

The bill passed.

So did infrastructure projects explode according to the president’s pledge to the American people? The answer will only shock a liberal…

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The case against tax-payer funded subsidies for electric cars

By Tom Quiner Should the federal government take your tax money and give it to someone else if they buy an electric car? It is happening. It is being done based on the assumption that global warming is real, man-made, and reversible through draconian green energy schemes.  Each is subject to debate within the scientific…

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The case against tax-payer funded subsidies for electric cars

Environmentalist Bjorn Lombort says the electric car is bad for the environment. You read that right. He says a 2012 study about the environmental efficacy of the electric car appeared in the Journal of Industrial Ecology that reveals that the electric car is worse for the environment than a vehicle fueled by gasoline.

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