Print Lindsay Leveen Read Full Bio GOP Senator Grassley Signs On to Wind Energy Tax Credit Extension A real popular song from the 1963s was “Blowin in the Wind”. Fifty years later it is popular to blow cash in the wind. Thanks to Senators Grassley and Udall the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy has been extended through 2013. 3 Jan 2013 Carbon Taxes Hidden Behind Green Energy This article exposes the carbon emissions reduction taxation that has been levied on adopters of the so-called “green” alternatives, and shows that the level of taxation is, theoretically, many times the real market value of the carbon emissions. In one case, the level of taxation is actually infinite. 28 Nov 2012 Advanced Equities Another Obama Green Casualty Greenexplored.com has reported that Advanced Equities is going out of business. Who is Advanced Equities? They are the firm that raised money for Bloom Energy, Fisker, and Serious Energy. Yes, there was a company called Serious Energy that lost serious money. 14 Nov 2012 Bankrupt A 123 Systems Wants to Pay Bonuses to Top Execs Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported that A 123 Systems, the bankrupt recipient of Obama’s department of energy loan, now wants to pay top executives more than four million dollars. 23 Oct 2012 Another Video Obama Wishes Was Never Made I had blogged about a month back that the workers in the factory were on a 25% furlough and the factory that received $150 million of tax payers’ money has never supplied a single battery to Chevrolet. What is now known is that while the workers come to the factory three out of four working days, they sit around read magazines, watch movies, and play cards in the factory on the days they are called to work. 21 Oct 2012 Another Obama 'Green' Collapse: A 123 Is a Goner Tonight we have the second presidential debate, and tonight Gov. Mitt Romney should again bring up that Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla, and Ener 1 are failures that the administration bet its hopes and our money on--and lost. Romney can add a fifth example to his list, and that is A 123. 16 Oct 2012 Bankrupt Solyndra Files Bizarre Lawsuit Before Elections I believe the suit is baseless--but the timing is priceless. The timing is just prior to the election and the suit is likely a face-saving decoy for the President of the United States and his Department of Energy. The suit has probably been filed to deflect criticism for their investment of taxpayers' money in Solyndra. 14 Oct 2012 Obama and Chu Strike Out on Another Green Energy Project Much of the policy, if you can call it policy, of the Department of Energy under Secretary Steven Chu and President Barack Obama has been based on the potential of plug-in vehicles. The underlying assumption that Chu espoused and Obama naively believed was that lithium ion batteries would drop significantly in cost and that with mass production levels of economies of scale, plug-in vehicles would be affordable. 28 Sep 2012 Toyota Pulls Plug on Obama, Reid’s Green Car Fantasy Yesterday we received reports that Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread manufacturing and sale of a new mini-car that was to be powered as electric only. Reuters reports that Toyota stated they “had misread the market and the ability of still emerging battery technology to meet consumer demands.” 25 Sep 2012 Gore, Green Energy Absent from DNC Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore is nowhere near Charlotte, North Carolina, as his party holds its national convention. The environmental activist is instead spending the week in New York City. 5 Sep 2012 Previous 1 2 Next
GOP Senator Grassley Signs On to Wind Energy Tax Credit Extension A real popular song from the 1963s was “Blowin in the Wind”. Fifty years later it is popular to blow cash in the wind. Thanks to Senators Grassley and Udall the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy has been extended through 2013. 3 Jan 2013
Carbon Taxes Hidden Behind Green Energy This article exposes the carbon emissions reduction taxation that has been levied on adopters of the so-called “green” alternatives, and shows that the level of taxation is, theoretically, many times the real market value of the carbon emissions. In one case, the level of taxation is actually infinite. 28 Nov 2012
Advanced Equities Another Obama Green Casualty Greenexplored.com has reported that Advanced Equities is going out of business. Who is Advanced Equities? They are the firm that raised money for Bloom Energy, Fisker, and Serious Energy. Yes, there was a company called Serious Energy that lost serious money. 14 Nov 2012
Bankrupt A 123 Systems Wants to Pay Bonuses to Top Execs Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported that A 123 Systems, the bankrupt recipient of Obama’s department of energy loan, now wants to pay top executives more than four million dollars. 23 Oct 2012
Another Video Obama Wishes Was Never Made I had blogged about a month back that the workers in the factory were on a 25% furlough and the factory that received $150 million of tax payers’ money has never supplied a single battery to Chevrolet. What is now known is that while the workers come to the factory three out of four working days, they sit around read magazines, watch movies, and play cards in the factory on the days they are called to work. 21 Oct 2012
Another Obama 'Green' Collapse: A 123 Is a Goner Tonight we have the second presidential debate, and tonight Gov. Mitt Romney should again bring up that Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla, and Ener 1 are failures that the administration bet its hopes and our money on--and lost. Romney can add a fifth example to his list, and that is A 123. 16 Oct 2012
Bankrupt Solyndra Files Bizarre Lawsuit Before Elections I believe the suit is baseless--but the timing is priceless. The timing is just prior to the election and the suit is likely a face-saving decoy for the President of the United States and his Department of Energy. The suit has probably been filed to deflect criticism for their investment of taxpayers' money in Solyndra. 14 Oct 2012
Obama and Chu Strike Out on Another Green Energy Project Much of the policy, if you can call it policy, of the Department of Energy under Secretary Steven Chu and President Barack Obama has been based on the potential of plug-in vehicles. The underlying assumption that Chu espoused and Obama naively believed was that lithium ion batteries would drop significantly in cost and that with mass production levels of economies of scale, plug-in vehicles would be affordable. 28 Sep 2012
Toyota Pulls Plug on Obama, Reid’s Green Car Fantasy Yesterday we received reports that Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread manufacturing and sale of a new mini-car that was to be powered as electric only. Reuters reports that Toyota stated they “had misread the market and the ability of still emerging battery technology to meet consumer demands.” 25 Sep 2012
Gore, Green Energy Absent from DNC Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore is nowhere near Charlotte, North Carolina, as his party holds its national convention. The environmental activist is instead spending the week in New York City. 5 Sep 2012
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