Posted on 08/08/2024 5:38:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Cronyism, corporate welfare, and incompetence surges under Democrats.
First it was Pete Buttigieg and the mere seven electric vehicle charging stations his agency built for the American public after three years and nearly eight billion dollars, and now it’s Kamala Harris and her “small” batch of solar panels for Puerto Rico, after two years and one billion dollars earmarked for the job.
Here are the details, from Thomas Catenacci at The Washington Free Beacon:
The Biden-Harris administration has, for years, vowed to deploy thousands of solar panels to stabilize Puerto Rico’s power grid amid regular blackouts, government mismanagement, and ever-increasing residential electricity rates. But, years after making that promise, a $1 billion program central to that effort yielded only a tiny handful of solar panels…
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While the Department of Energy declined to tell the Free Beacon how many solar panels have been installed using program funds, Sunnova Energy—one of two U.S. solar firms awarded funding to oversee implementation of the program—acknowledged that just ‘a small, initial batch’ of installations have been completed across the entire island so far. The other firm, Generac Holdings, declined to comment.
Now, it turned out that Buttigieg’s progress was being hampered by big government red tape (I guess Democrats are their own worst enemy too; schadenfreude!), but Harris’s tortoise-pace is for another reason:
‘The island is in the thick of hurricane season and high temperatures, and families on the island continue to battle weekly, or in some cases daily, power disruptions,’ a solar industry expert with knowledge of the program’s inner workings told the Free Beacon. ‘We need to figure out how to move faster.’
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I bet they have a great DEI program. Now they just have to hire people who know how to do the work.
Did anyone seriously expect otherwise?
“‘We need to figure out how to move faster.’”
The guy sounds mentally incompetent.
No need to hire any workers.
This is just another Solyndra scam. The whole purpose is to loot the treasury.
And of course those wind catchers are hurricane proof. Stupid and corrupt. No question. The only question is just how far off the meter the stupidity and corruption go.
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Yes!
This was going to be defeated but Massie and a couple RINOs ran to help Joe Biden.
Same old story.
Did Solyndra get more money?
All that matters is who’s friends or family got rich off these contracts and how much cash was kicked back to the politicians.
Solyndra rising from the grave.
What do they mean "small batch?" The program yielded $2B which sounds like a large haul to me and a great success. The $2B was the intent of the program. You don't think that the taxpayers or the public were the intended beneficiaries of this do you? That would be foolish.
$1 billion equals 1000 times $1 million. Maybe people think that 1 billion is about 2 million like a bicycle has two wheels. The Biden administration is just pouring thousands of millions of dollars to their cronies. It is disgusting and destroying our country financially
I suppose that Trump’s group knows about this?
MY Guess- The money is already being spent on democrat steal the vote operations.
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It seems like every plan is broke and they did little.
Like Scamala is on record saying - it’s not about the Cost.
Since Tampon Tim lost over $500 Million in Covid funds, you know he agrees.
MN is ridiculously high Tax state, too.
Hey you corrupt nitwits...move faster by getting rid of taxpayer’s money grants and the grifting contractors. What pathetic corruption.
“And of course those wind catchers are hurricane proof. “
They are in Florida.
They’re really trying to sell windmills here in NorCal. Probably be a terrible failure but Newson will be deemed a green saint?
payback like solyndra, theres a lot of scams running including the ukraine
I put up a 20 Watt solar panel to charge my boat lift battery. I wonder if I could get a couple of $million grant for this?
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