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Taxpayer Millions Squandered on EV Charging Study Project
An audit by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General found that the persistent weak demand for electric vehicles harmed the deployment and timeliness of a $135 million-plus taxpayer funded charging...
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Fisker's Venture Capital Firm Still Hasn't Learned Cronyism Doesn't Pay
The sniping and backbiting behind the financial scenes are escalating as those involved with Fisker Automotive and other green tech flops seek to direct blame for their investment failures. U.S....
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Government-Gamed Markets and Subsidies Give Tesla Another 'Profitable' Quarter
Another fiscal quarter has passed and if you consume most of the mainstream and/or pro-renewable energy media, it’s been another consecutive financial smashing success for luxury plug-in maker Tesla...
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New Energy Secretary Wants to Waste More Money on EV Loans
Just when you thought the Loan Program Office in President Obama’s Department of Energy might put its unused electric auto loan money back in the Treasury coffers, the government investor-crats are...
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The Obama Green Failure Train Rolls on With Ecotality
Thirteen years ago a former executive chef/kitchen manager launched an environmentally friendly cleaning products company to compete with industry giant Ecolab, his former employer, where he had worked...
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DOE Hid Info About Loan Recipient's Bad Condition in April House Hearing
Being an Obama administration stimulus failure doesn’t mean you have to be electric, and it also doesn’t mean the Department of Energy won’t pretend you’re still legitimate when Congressional pressure...
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Not Even Fisker's Fire Sale Can Dampen DOE Enthusiasm for 'Investments'
After the Department of Energy announced this week it had given up on not-bankrupt-but-should-be Fisker Automotive, and will auction off its loan for a pittance, you’d think (and hope) Congress would...
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Stimulus Program Delivered Free Trees to Rich People...and a Reporter
NLPC has reported regularly on several of the large-ticket boondoggles that have received taxpayer support via President Obama’s “green” stimulus initiatives, but for every Fisker, Nissan Leaf or...
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Alternative Bulbs: Another Phony Market Propped Up by Govt Mandates, Subsidies
Entrepreneurs in industries tied to the energy efficiency gambit, justified by the climate change House of Cards, all have the same false bravado: they are “game changers” and “market leaders” (for...
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Problems Pile up for Taxpayer-Subsidized Tesla
Fires, faulty drive units, financial losses and stock price deflation marked Tesla Motors news in a week that seemed as bad as the last couple of years were good.Fortunately for CEO Elon Musk and his...
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Adoption of New Bulbs Requires Big Subsidies and Killing Incandescents
The full implementation of the incandescent light bulb ban takes effect in two weeks, which in the U.S. government’s anti-liberty wisdom will effectively eliminate the competition to companies like...
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2013: Veils of Secrecy as More 'Green' Taxpayer Money Disappears
Last year at this time NLPC reviewed 2012 as “The Year of Taxpayer ‘Green’ Waste,” and that description applied to 2013 as well. But additional trends of government opaqueness and inattention to safety...
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Will Nissan Abandon Its $1.4B Stimulus-Backed Battery Factory?
Reuters sources inside Nissan are saying the production of batteries in Tennessee for the all-electricLeaf, which stimulus-subsidizing U.S. taxpayers backed with a $1.4 billion loan, could be...
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GAO Challenges Energy Dept. on Green Loan Success Claims
Back in November the Department of Energy boasted that its loan program for renewable energy technologies and “advanced” (mostly electric) vehicles had achieved a positive balance, which many in the...
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Chinese Said To Turn Obama's Stimulus Lemons Into Lemonade
One of the stimulus-funded alternative energy companies that National Legal and Policy Center reported about most the last few years was A123 Systems, which the Department of Energy awarded $279...
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