President Obama is convinced that green energy is the future. He has already spent billions of dollars of your money on failed 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 ($700,981)*
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)List: 36 Of Obama’s Taxpayer-Funded Green Energy Failures – Fox Nation
Now he blames climate skeptics for the technology failures he backed. This is spectacularly irrational, but there is a path forward for him.
Pick a heavily Democratic state like Rhode Island or Vermont, and turn it into a green energy demonstration. Run the entire state off green energy generated inside the state borders, and no one will be able to doubt the viability of the technology. Senators Sanders and Whitehouse would surely go along with this.
Are they serious about green energy, or are they just witch burners looking for someone to blame for their failures?