Warren Buffett says it's 'highly likely' climate change poses a major problem for the planet
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Posted on 03/05/2016 8:55:05 AM PST by george76
House lawmakers sharply criticized the head of the Department of Energy’s green energy loan program for not releasing documents requested by a committee looking into companies that have received taxpayer dollars.
“It is disconcerting that the executive director of a major government program is unwilling to commit — to actually commit — to providing all the documents that an investigation committee of the Congress has requested,” California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher .. told Mark McCall, the head of the DOE’s loan office, in a hearing Thursday, “and that the answer being given is using weasel words
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House committee members are specifically asking for emails from DOE loan office staffers regarding companies that got subsidized loans. The former loan office head, Jonathan Silver, resigned after it was discovered he used a personal email account to conduct official business and may have lobbied for politically-favored projects to get loans.
For example, Silver’s emails showed he and another DOE official were pushing the Treasury Department to move more quickly to approve a $400 million loan guarantee for Abound Solar — which filed for bankruptcy in 2012 after drawing down on $70 million from taxpayers.
A Daily Caller News Foundation later exposed Abound for taking taxpayer dollars while knowingly selling solar panels that routinely caught fire, and for possibly misleading lenders to get an influx of cash.
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the DOE has handed out $30 billion in subsidized loans to green energy companies.
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I used to have so much respect for Gowdey what the hell happens to these people???......$$$$$$$?
Warren Buffett says it's 'highly likely' climate change poses a major problem for the planet
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
I'll bet it's far worse than you think. The DOE has an annual budget of about $30 billion. There are about a hundred million taxpaying families or individuals in the US. That works out to about $300 per working family. However, half the working families pay little to no taxes at all, so that doubles your part to $600 per year.
YOU pay $600 per year for the DOE - ALONE!!!
You guys are the House. If some agency flips you the bird and still gets funded the following year, you have no one to blame but yourselves. Any outrage is then presumably for show.
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