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October 19, 2012 | 
Author The total set aside by the Obambi administration for Green Energy businesses was $80 Billion. We’ve heard about Solyndra, Fisker, and A123 among some of the bigger ones. However, there are a total of 34 companies on this list totaling $3.770 Billion in taxpayer funded loans. Admittedly, that is only 1/2 of 1% of the total. But, given that we are talking BILLIONS that still is no chump change when it comes to our taxes. I found the list here. We can’t afford having the government pick and choose who the winners and losers are. Given that Global Warming has been debunked and we now find out that there has been absolutely no global warming over the last 16 years – this is plain ridiculous.
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
- Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($43 million)*
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.2 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
- Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
- EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
- Amonix ($5.9 million)
- Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
- Abound Solar ($400 million)*
- A123 Systems ($279 million)*
- Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)*
- Johnson Controls ($299 million)
- Schneider Electric ($86 million)
- Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
- ECOtality ($126.2 million)
- Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
- Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
- Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
- Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
- Range Fuels ($80 million)*
- Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
- Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
- Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
- GreenVolts ($500,000)
- Vestas ($50 million)
- LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
- Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
- Navistar ($39 million)
- Satcon ($3 million)*
- Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
- Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
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Tags: election, failed business, global warming, government, green energy, Taxes | 
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Or is it 4? Frankly it’s getting hard to keep up with the number of failed green companies that sucked billions of dollars out of the Federal coffers (AKA you, the hapless taxpayer).
In case you haven’t been paying attention here’s the green economy touted by President Obama’s partial score card.
Solyndra : Bankrupt – Loss of 535 Million in Federal Grants
A123 : Bankrupt – Loss of 240 Million in Federal Grants – now being bought out by a Chicom company meaning that we fellow taxpayer – just gave the Chinese a bunch of really expensive manufacturing equipment – dirt cheap.
Abound Solar : Bankrupt – Loss of 70 million in Federal Grants.
Ener1 : Bankrupt - Washington pledged up to $118 million in stimulus funds. Another $80 million in state and local incentives was dedicated to help Ener1 produce cutting-edge battery technology for electric cars and the U.S. military. Now that technology is owned by a Russian tycoon.
Read more here in the link below:
In a January report, Sheryl Attkisson of CBS News counted at least 12 clean-energy companies that were having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five had filed for bankruptcy: the junk bond-rated Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES subsidiary Eastern Energy and the now-infamous Solyndra. Now we have a sixth — Abound Solar.
“Hindsight is always 20-20,” Obama told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News after Solyndra closed its doors. “It went through the regular review process. And people felt like this (Solyndra) was a good bet.”
“Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,”
Yep….Even after 6 turns at bat…..Obama is still…..the ….WORST.PRESIDENT.IN.HISTORY
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Well if there was any doubt in the first place concerning the intelligence of some Obama supporters this should serve nicely to dispel that…
Obama should be allowed to use a Teleprompter to debate
Really? After watching that I could only think of one thing….
“Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak out and remove all doubt”.
Abe Lincoln 16th President of the United States.
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OK – The Evil Clown shamed me into it, so here it goes – I’ll opine.
One of the most personally annoying talking points I keep hearing is how the president is some steward of “jobs creation”
How’s that work – The POTUS walks into a HR department over at Acme tools and says:
“You shall Hire Joe and Jill – You shall Hire Bob and Betty - and don’t forget their Union bennies either damn it!! So I decree so it shall be!!”
Okay all snarky-ness aside – I’ve long held that the president himself can do little to create or destroy jobs – perhaps he has some impact via certain initiatives to cause companies to not hire – i.e Obamacare – Or perhaps public works like FDR did – and that can cause uncertainty in the job markets but factually there isn’t much a sitting president can actually do to “create” a job. It’s a red herring for talking heads and Sunday morning political “experts” to bandy about – but in reality it serves as a useless metric of a presidents accomplishments. Jobs are created in the marketplace – Not the Whitehouse.
Okay now that we got that out of the way – This musing of mine on Presidents and Jobs Creation comes from a passing comment on a local news web page where an Obama Supporter was adamantly defending Obama and his record. No seriously; there is someone out there actually defending this yahoo. You just can’t make this crap up folks!!
One of the poster’s points in support of Obama and his Jobs Creation was:
“Obama has <beep> created more <expletive deleted >jobs in 4 years than <expletive deleted> G.W. Bush did in <beep> 8 !!!11eLEVENTY!! ” (at which point I advised the excitable poster to calm down – all that angst is bad for the ol ticker don’t ya’ know.)
Which of course I had to think about that astounding claim for all of about …. .9999 nano seconds before I shredded his argument. It reminded me of playing that old game Battleship
Of course Obama numerically can boast that he created more jobs than G.W. that is true.
But why is it true?
At this point I have to admit I was shooting at a sail boat with what amounted to the USS New Jersey but hey no one ever accused my swashbuckling pirate ass of being nice….
Anchors aweigh Boys…time to sink the Bismark – Er – belay that…. it’s the “Good Ship Rainbows and Unicorn Farts” !!
I asked our intrepid Obamaphil -” Could it be perhaps One, that the job numbers my oh so ardent Obama fan is claiming the POTUS to have “created” is simply no more than jobs that are gradually coming back in a still very uncertain recovery”?
B-14 – hit!
“And Two, those jobs that are slowly coming back have taken 4 long years and still we see 8+ % unemployment – why is that?? Answer – Because job creation is not even keeping pace with new prospect employees entering the work environment”.
B13 – Hit!
Those two points are true as well but as the poster scrambled to shore up his already sinking battle ship….I let go with a full on broadside…. I do fear I made the hapless poster wet his britches when I pointed out:
“Or perhaps it is simply a case of..The simple fact of the matter is from around 2002 – right up until late 2006 Unemployment was hovering around 4% .
B-12 – Hit!
“That, in case you’re wondering is what econo-weenies call “full employment” based on the fact that that 4% of the population that isn’t working – chooses not to or can’t. Ergo there were NO jobs for G.W. Bush to create“.
(Assuming of course you buy into the whole the President Creates Job meme).
B-11 Hit!
OH NOES!! YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!! AAAAAOOOOOGA – Abandon Ship – Women and Children First!!
Ah!! So solly challie maybe you go Singapore next time – find you girl love you long time eh?
Or – I guess you can keep voting for Obama??!
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Okay – so it didn’t take very long for me to put up another post – so – one of the tools I use to get around this Blogosphere and to build credits is through EntreCard – well – I came across THIS POST! Holy Shitburgers Batman!
This bonehead is seriously trying to defend Socialism – yet claims to be a moderate – this is the definition of Socialism as found on that page:
Socialism
A political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles.
REALLY? What the HELL liberal education did this dolt get? I know my readers are smarter than this – but – just in case some of you other libs or moderates who got a healthy dose of liberal education – here is the REAL definition of Socialism straight from Merriam Webster’s Dictionary:
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private propertyb : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional betweencapitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Now, those of you who know me – know that I don’t run away from a good fight like this – so – I left a comment. Unfortunately – this blogger does not publish comments. GEEZ I wonder why?
Wherever that blogger got that quote – the originator made a very great attempt at cleaning up the fact that it is based in the MARXIST principle of government control and equal distribution!!! This bonehead finishes off the post with this amusing finale:
What makes the morality of needless suffering so terribly wrong when you are talking about someone you know and love but when you are talking about someone you don’t morally righteous?
The fact is we must have social interaction to be successful; rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, we all benefit from socialism. It has made us who we are today and is the key to our success. We all know this and the idea and practice of socialism can and should be the same at the macro level as well as the micro level.
Socialism is not a bad word; it is the way we progress and the way to success as a nation.
Dude – or – Dudette – whichever one you are – you are so totally confusing Sociology and Social Theory with Socialism! They are COMPLETELY different things. What you are attempting to describe – SOCIOLOGY and the science behind human interaction – is NOT anywhere near the same as SOCIALISM which is a form of government. I certainly understand your point that we are our brother’s keepers. However, this is through CHARITY – that which is based on kindness, empathy, and compassion – an individual’s freedom to choose to help those who need the help. You are confusing it with the Socialist theory of government forced redistribution of wealth – that is NOT Charity!
Marx said -
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
That is not Charity – and that is not American exceptionalism. It is our exceptionalism and our Republic Representative form of government where Capitalism is the engine driving this economy that allows us to be charitable as individuals. In case you missed this – the TOP 10 most charitable states are mostly CONSERVATIVE states and the bottom 10 charitable states are mostly LIBERAL states.
and – here is the analysis – from the same article:
“People who lean to the political left will rely on the government and pay higher taxes to manage social needs,” he said. “People who lean conservative will rely more on the individual and on religious institutions and civil society nonprofits to handle those needs.”
Get it? Those that believe in self reliance, limited government, and on the true power of the people are the most charitable whereas those that are big government lemmings that believe in Marxism and Socialism are the least charitable. Paying taxes is not being charitable. Or as Davy Crockett put it:
I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. …
We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.
and he went on to say
The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.
You can find it in the book about the 3 term Congressman (yes, he was a real person – not just a TV show with Fess Parker) “Not Yours to Give”.
Nuff Said!
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I know – right off the bat some moonbat out there will automatically label me as a racist just for making that statement. Oh well – that just shows they are unwilling to actually listen to someone else’s opinion and would rather jump right on that “racist conservative” bandwagon.
In 2008 it was truly a historic moment – America elected a black man to the highest office in the land. Well, not quite – he is a mulatto – he’s not actually considered a “true” black person. He is half-white and half-black. Why people think he is black is still beyond me. Why isn’t he white? He’s only half one or the other – why do they identify with the “black” side of him? Compared to full blooded African-Americans in this country – Obama is white.
Anyway, to the point of this discussion – this man has proven to be so freakin’ incompetent that he has essentially sealed the fate of all blacks in this country who may have aspired to become President themselves one day. There is a racist stereotype that says all blacks are lazy and stupid. I personally don’t subscribe to that stereotype. But, there are enough real racists out there that do believe that, in addition to some closet racists (liberals) that won’t openly make such a statement. Obama’s total lack of leadership, incompetence, and his ability to find a golf course at crucial moments on a whim as well as dart off on extremely expensive vacations every couple months helps to lend credence to that stereotype.
There will be enough people in the next election who will refuse to vote for him because he is black – not just from the right – but now from the left as well. They will be saying “we never should have put that black man in the White House – he’s a freakin’ lazy good for nothing idiot. Never gonna vote for another black man in my life.” Not only that, but this stereotype will go on in history as well. Historians will not be kind to this idiot in chief at all. History will prove that he is even more incompetent that Jimmy Carter.
Personally, I would vote for Alan West or even Condeeza if either of them ever run. Unfortunately, because of Obama, neither one of them will ever see the oval office from behind the desk.
