“Our climate bill wasn’t just the most significant investment to fight climate change ever – it’ll also create millions of new jobs in the clean energy economy.”
The language is almost identical to his 2008 rhetoric.
Microsoft Word – Fact Sheet Energy Speech 082508 FINAL.doc
The 5 Million Green Jobs That Weren’t – Bloomberg
President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures
- Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($43 million)*
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.2 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
- Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
- EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
- Amonix ($5.9 million)
- Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
- Abound Solar ($400 million)*
- A123 Systems ($279 million)*
- Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
- Johnson Controls ($299 million)
- Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
- ECOtality ($126.2 million)
- Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
- Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
- Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
- Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
- Range Fuels ($80 million)*
- Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
- Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
- Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
- GreenVolts ($500,000)
- Vestas ($50 million)
- LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
- Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
- Navistar ($39 million)
- Satcon ($3 million)*
- Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
- Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
We are seeing a repeat
Silicon Valley Bank: Climate tech’s go-to banker collapses – Heatmap News
This time the scam is a lot more expensive however.
Biden says he “started this whole thing” in 1987 and described his 1987 climate bill as a “game changer.”
Joe Biden claims he ‘started this whole thing’ on climate change | AP News
They have been pulling the same scam for 36 years. Nothing they are doing makes any difference to the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, and it it also makes no difference which party is in control of the government.
Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases