Solar Trust Belly-Up: Yet Another Obama Green Energy Company Goes Bankrupt After Receiving $2.1 Billion Government Loan Guarantees
Yet another one of Obama’s pet Green Energy companies (Solar Trust) has gone belly-up, and filed for bankruptcy, less than a year after receiving $2.1 billion in government-backed loan guarantees! In reality, that means that an already failing company was handed $2.1 billion in free money, with no plan or hope by the Obama administration of getting re-paid, other than now having a group of people who owe Obama big time!
When will the American People stand up and say “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WE WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO WASTE ANY MORE OF OUR HARD-EARNED MONEY ON THESE GREEN ENERGY SCAMS! WE WILL NO LONGER STAND BY AS OBAMA LINES HIS FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS POCKETS WITH $ BILLIONS OF OUR MONEY!!”
Today after reading this story, I went to lunch at a restaurant near my office where a few brain-dead liberals work. They were already talking about Obama’s complete and total failure to take proper care with our money. They were very angry that Obama keeps giving his friends and supporters millions or billions of dollars, only to go bankrupt, and then pocketing as much taxpayer money as they can.
One ultra-liberal waitress, who always has MSNBC on the TVs, tried defending Obama’s many green energy failures, which only ended up lining the pockets of Obama’s friends, family, and political supporters. It was great to see the other liberals who worked there ripping her to shreds. They could not believe that she would try and defend Obama’s corrupt and indefensible policies that are only making the problem that he and the Democrats created, much worse.
In keeping with the recent trend of so-called green companies going into the red, another solar energy company supported by President Obama’s top administration officials declared bankruptcy today.
Solar Trust for America received $2.1 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Department of Energy — “the largest amount ever offered to a solar project,” according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu — for a project near Blythe, Calif., but declared bankruptcy within a year. It is unclear how much of the guarantee, if any, was actually awarded.
Senior officials in Obama’s administration had very high hopes for the Blythe project. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar attended the groundbreaking ceremony, which he described as “a historic moment in America’s new energy frontier” and “another important step in making America’s clean energy future a reality.” Chu trumpeted at the time that Solar Trust would prove that “when we rev up the great American innovation machine, we can out-compete any other nation.”
The embarrassment should be bipartisan. “This is a huge milestone for our community,” Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., said when the company received its loan guarantee. “I look forward to continuing my work supporting projects . . . that will harness our local energy resources and help reduce our nation’s dangerous dependence on unstable foreign oil.”
Uwe Schmidt, chairman and CEO of the company, also argued that Solar Trust was good for the nation. He wrote last year that “the DOE loan guarantee is a ‘win-win’ for government and the companies involved and will not only advance the cause of energy independence but will create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country.”
The bankruptcy makes Schmidt’s attempt to rebuke DOE critics in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy particuarly ironic.
“Despite the posturing and finger pointing, the American solar energy industry is alive and well,” Schmidt wrote in an op-ed for the Huffington Post, before discussing his company’s business plans. Referring to Solyndra, he lamented that “one company’s bankruptcy has cast doubt on the credibility of a government program that is otherwise being administered with incredible efficiency.”
The list of bankrupt solar companies has grown since Schmidt scolded Solyndra investigators. How many more might go bankrupt? Secretary Chu won’t say.
STAND UP TEA PARTY MEMBERS! TELL OBAMA TO STOP SPREADING OUR WEALTH TO HIS FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS!
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