Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers — before a single battery has been produced!
Fox News Excerpt: The 650,000-square-foot, $300 million facility was slated to produce 15,000 batteries per year, while creating hundreds of new jobs. But to date, only 200 workers are employed at the plant by by the South Korean company. Batteries for the Chevy Volts that have been produced have been made by an LG plant […]
The Green Jobs Debacle: ‘Dept of Labor’s IG found that a $500 million program for training people with so-called green skills has so far produced only 1,336 jobs that have lasted over 6 months’
– Ener1, after receiving $118.5 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection – Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection – SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankruptcy protection’ – Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection – […]
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Nissan Leaf Battery Life Class Action Lawsuit: ‘Accuses Nissan of concealing Leaf vehicles have a design defect that causes them to prematurely lose battery life & driving range’
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Chevy Volt blames poor sales on conservatives: ‘I cannot believe that everybody doesn’t want to have one of these’
Chevy Volt Leases Costing Taxpayers $10 per Gallon of Gas Saved: ‘The majority of Volt Sept ‘sales’ were heavily subsidized leases that are costing taxpayers millions of dollars’
Spain the model: ‘Green’ power generation working out so well that the electricity system only needs a $32 billion bailout
SoloPower: Another Solyndra in Waiting? ‘San Jose’s SoloPower, seems to be following in Solyndra’s footsteps and threatening to leave taxpayers on the hook for millions more’
Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News on another Solyndra — ‘SoloPower’ set to get $197 million fed loan guarantee: ‘The more the plans fail the more the planners plan’
Morano: The fed govt had pumped in $40 billion in a few short years to renewables. You can create the illusion of prosperity…Yet we are producing barely over 1/10 of 1% of our energy from solar’ — More on SoloPower here.