22 May 2022 3:42 pm
The Recovery Act also funneled money into programs meant to stimulate new clean energy science and technology. $400 million was earmarked to launch the Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy, or ARPA-E, a kind of scientific incubator for new green technologies. (Trump has repeatedly threatened to defund it).“There was political hay to be made with Solyndra,” Aldy said. But he thinks the scandal overshadowed what was actually a success; the point of the program was to take risks on technologies that could have big payoffs (and big risks). The program doled out money to many projects that succeeded, including the 300-megawatt Agua Caliente solar facility in Arizona and the 99-megawatt Granite Reliable wind farm in New Hampshire.Zeets2 » 22 May 2022, 1:45 pm » wrote: ↑ It doesn't matter in the slightest who gets credit for reducing pollution. MY COUNTRY did it, and I've got no problem with the current degree of traffic, especially since Biden has forced our gas prices so high that most of the poor and middle class can't afford to buy gas if they need to buy food or medicine. The roads haven't been this empty in NJ since Obama forced the gas price over $4 a gallon. Trump fixed that and he'll fix it again in 2 years when your idiot gets crushed in '24. I'll continue to drive my big, SAFE, gas-guzzling Lincoln as much as I want until then since I can easily afford to do so while I laugh about you idiots wringing your hands over the "global warming" hoax!
So you admit that even though we can't control any other country's level of intentional pollution that is FAR worse than ours, we STILL have to impose even more restrictions on fossil fuels to try to make up for THEIR pollution, right? Is that the solution that sounds logical to a staunch lib like you, while you dream about phony "solutions" that you think will fix it? Besides, isn't Biden's multi trillion-dollar phony "infrastructure" bill the thing that's going to resolve all the traffic issues with better roads, bridges, and airports, and didn't REPUBLICANS agree to sign on to it? Maybe you should ask a question or two about what the LAST trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that Obama signed and put Biden in charge of spending? Apparently, you're ready for yet ANOTHER round of hundreds of billions wasted on "green energy solutions" just like last time when Biden paid out BILLIONS to companies like these!:
You stupid **** liberals just never learn, do you? Even after you see how many millions those companies kicked back to Obama in bribe money, you STILL want to double down on trusting the idiot you voted for NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES THEY'VE **** YOU OVER!!!
By the end of Obama’s presidency, the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program had taken in $30 million more in interest payments than it had lost from defaults.