Posted on 08/31/2011 10:05:28 AM PDT by muleskinner
Only a total idiot would setup a commodity product in the highest cost/person location in the USA.
Silicon Valley moved all silicon manufacturing out of CA long ago.
Why do I get the feeling that the author of this article will be getting a pink slip from NBC?
green shovels?
First Evergreen Solar, then SpectraWatt, now Solyndra.
Must be the Arab Spring.
They’ve sold, uh, a couple hundred.
}:-)4
The Luddites favoring a command economy (otherwise known as enviro-wackos) are not doing their master Obama any favors these days.
“green shoots”
In the words of Used Car Joe, it’s a BFD.
The honchos at the RNC should be cutting a commercial RIGHT NOW showing Obama touting the plant last year on his visit. They should show the commercial immediately AFTER his ‘jobs’ speech to the Congress he is giving on September 7th, where by all accounts he is going to call for even MORE gov’t cash to create ‘green jobs’.
The first half of the commercial should show Barry at the plant touting the jobs and then juxtapose the people today being given pink slips in front of the chained gate.
The second half of the commercial should show drilling rigs in the US drilling for oil in the Bakken shale, Eagle Ford, or nat gas in the Marcellus. There should be a voice over saying the US oil industry is not asking for tax breaks and gov’t money to create phony ‘green jobs’, they are only asking for the gov’t to get the HELL OUT OF THE WAY and let them create good paying jobs.
This story perfectly illustrates the kind of crony capitalism this administration engages in, choosing winners and losers, rewarding friends and punishing enemies.
"Now watch very closely...the unicorn will actually start to poop.....Skittles!"
George B. Kaiser (born 1943) is an American businessman and chairman of BOK Financial Corporation. He is among the top 100 richest people in the world and one of the top 50 American philanthropists.
As of 2007, Kaiser's ownership interests in BOKF were worth $2.3 billion. In 2008, with an estimated current[update] net worth of around $12 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as the 20-richest person in America and the richest person in Oklahoma.
Nope, love it.
What a waste of money.
I wonder how much of the guaranteed loan money went to the Democratic Party? This is the third “Green Job” company(read Fraud)to go under in the last two to three months.
“...The loan guarantee, the administration’s first for a clean energy project, benefited a company whose prime financial backers include Oklahoma oil billionaire George Kaiser, a “bundler” of campaign donations. Kaiser raised at least $50,000 for the president’s 2008 election effort...”
Did Obama Administration Cut Corners For a Green Energy Company?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-administration-solyndra/story?id=13640783
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/
Contributions to Political Committees
GRONET, CHRISTIAN
PORTOLA VALLEY, CA 94028
SOLYNDRA/CEO
BOXER, BARBARA
VIA FRIENDS OF BARBARA BOXER
06/29/2010 1000.00 10020802429
Total Contributions: 1000.00
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