Solyndra and Fisker Write-Offs.....

The Department of Energy (DOE) gave away its equity interest in Solyndra to allow tax benefits worth up to $341 million to pass to two of Solyndra’s largest investors, Argonaut and Madrone, according to recently released bankruptcy filings. DOE’s actions raise the total amount of taxpayer money lost by Solyndra to as high as $849 million. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu seeking documents relating to another troubled loan recipient, Fisker Automotive.

As it struggled, A123 showered Democrats with donations, hired pricey lobbyist ......

 Troubled battery maker won private meeting and phone call with Obama, a trade mission slot and $250 million in stimulus money before it went bankrupt

Solyndra, the sequel? Bankrupt solar firm, DOE facing scrutiny over panel problems.....

"You don't just pick Winners and Losers...you pick the Losers!"

The committee pursuing documents on Colorado-based Abound Solar is the same that investigated the half-billion taxpayer loan to Solyndra, whose bankruptcy rocked the Obama administration. Two more Department of Energy-backed companies have since filed for bankruptcy, with Abound Solar being the latest.

Austrian Embassy Got Budget Increase to Buy Volts As Security Was Cut for Libyan Embassy......

Are you kidding me?! We put lives in danger to pump up the Green Agenda of this Administration?!

The Washington Times is reporting that at the same time State Department officials were cutting security for our diplomatic stations in Libya, they were increasing the budget for our embassy in Austria in order to purchase Chevrolet's electric powered Volt:

Obama By The Numbers - GOP

Good Lord.........

Obama By The Numbers

Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation....

I love Matt...but he is a certified MoonBat. I saw the coming attractions to this film this past weekend...even the snippets were screaming BIG OIL SUCKS......

And I say....maybe...but what is our alternative?
Isn't it also interesting that what is essentially a competitor of the US Oil concerns finances the film?

A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

Sen. Inhofe reveals the ‘global warming’ that melted street lamps in Oklahoma.....

It never occurred to so many scientifically superior people to wonder why “global” warming only melted those particular “globes” on one side? We’ll get to that in a second.

Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Another Record .....

Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year). Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data.

Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels....

OK...we pick "winners" and lend and endless stream of money to American solar panel/Green energy companies that collapse...
Then we blame the Chinese for un-fair labor practices causing this collapse.....                                ( had nothing to do with bad judgement...!?)...
And then break federal law to purchase solar panels with MORE stimulus money from the SAME people we blame for killing American businesses......
I have a headache.....

Government officials blame unfair competition from China for the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, but such concerns didn’t stop the federal government from breaking stimulus program rules to use Chinese solar panels atop a federal building housing the offices of a senator, congressman and several agencies.

Energy Dept. e-mails on Solyndra provide new details on White House involvement .....

President Obama’s staff arranged for him to be personally briefed last summer on a loan program to help clean-energy companies, two months before the program was thrust into headlines by the collapse of its flagship, the solar company Solyndra, records show.