$51 Million In Stimulus Dollars Didn't Stimulate Them To Ship A Single Battery
Treacher blogs at The Daily Caller that there's so little to do at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium ion battery plant (intended to make batteries for the Chevy Volt), that workers spend hours playing cards and board games and watching movies.







On topic!
Crid [Cridcomment at Gmail] at October 19, 2012 12:54 PM
This too, though I hate the "Fact:" thing.
Crid [Cridcomment at Gmail] at October 19, 2012 12:55 PM
His facts are way wrong. The $90 billion was part of the 2009 stimulus package. Only a small fraction went to wind and solar:
$29 billion for energy efficiency, including $5 billion for improvements in the homes and apartments of low-income households
$21 billion for renewable electricity generation, including wind turbines and solar panels
$10 billion for grid modernization, including millions of “smart meters” that read themselves, eliminating the need for meter readers
$6 billion to help establish factories to make batteries for electric cars and other components of advanced vehicles
$18 billion for fast trains
$3 billion for research and development into capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide
$3 billion for job training and scientific advances in green energy
About $2 billion to help build wind turbines, solar panels and similar “green” products
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/90-billion-for-green-energy-a-closer-look/
Eric at October 19, 2012 2:04 PM
List of government $stimulated$ green energy companies that went bankrupt:
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
Ken R at October 19, 2012 4:55 PM
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