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Doug Ross Director Blue 8/12/2012 Fisker Automotive, which absconded with $530 million of your money to build $100,000 electric cars in Finland, has encountered a series of all-too-predictable disasters. First came word that under certain random circumstances, such as letting the battery run down, the entire vehicle could become “bricked” — or permanently ruined… …Yesterday, […] August 12th, 2012 | Tags: 'green economy', "green subsidies", A123 Systems, Finland, fires, Fisker Automotive, lithium ion batteries, Woodside | Category: Barack Obama, California, Department of Energy, Environment, Progressives, Taxes | Comments are closed
Is Fisker Automotive the next Solyndra? Maybe, but that misses the larger point. William Tucker The American Spectator 2/14/2012 Fisker Automotive suspended efforts in Delaware last week to retool an abandoned GM production plant into a manufacturing facility for its new electric hybrid NINA, derived from the $104,000 luxury Karma. Fisker’s problem is that it […] February 14th, 2012 | Tags: "green subsidies", Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program, crony capitalism, federal subsidies, Finland, Fisker Automotive, Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid car, Henrik Fisker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, NINA, Tesla, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: Barack Obama, Delaware, Department of Energy, Europe, Taxes, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
James R. Healey USA Today 2/9/2012 The activist group Judicial Watch says it has sued the Department of Energy to obtain records detailing the DOE’s $529 million loan promise to Fisker Automotive, maker of luxury electrified vehicles. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says it appears that the government “shelled out over half-a-billion dollars to a […] February 9th, 2012 | Tags: crony capitalism, federal subsidies, Finland, Fisker Automotive, FOIA, Judicial Watch, Project Nina, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: Barack Obama, California, Delaware, Department of Energy, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Warren Meyer Forbes 10/20/2011 The Fisker Karma electric car, developed mainly with your tax money so that a bunch of rich VC’s wouldn’t have to risk any real money, has rolled out with an nominal EPA MPGe of 52 in all electric mode (we will ignore the gasoline engine for this analysis). Not bad? Unfortunately, […] October 21st, 2011 | Tags: 'green' technology, "green jobs", "green subsidies", crony capitalism, Finland, Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid car, Ford Explorer SUV | Category: "Stimulus" program, Department of Energy, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Europe, Taxes, technology | Comments are closed
Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross, and Ronnie Greene ABC News and iWatch News 10/20/2011 With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of […] October 20th, 2011 | Tags: "green subsidies", Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loans, Al Gore, crony capitalism, Finland, Fisker Automotive, Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid car, Henrik Fisker, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Rep. Mike Castle, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: "Stimulus" program, California, Delaware, Department of Energy, Europe, Taxes | Comments are closed
Final Finnish Election Results: True Finns Gain 34 Seats John Ellis Business Insider 4/17/2011 If you go to this chart, and you scroll through the various geographic voting districts in Finland, it gives you a good view of the breadth of the surge of the True Finns in Finnish politics. They were expected to do […] April 17th, 2011 | Tags: currency, Euro, Finland | Category: Elections, European Union, Politics | Comments are closed
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