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Green Vehicles Goes Under, Takes Salinas With It
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| Jul 18, 2011
| Brooke Holmquist
Posted on 07/18/2011 10:51:45 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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The green flim flam man ripped the City of Salinas and the taxpayers of California off. Sheared like sheep.
To: artichokegrower
Another “Green” scam bites the dust!
To: SoConPubbie
Now the company will be “green” with weeds...
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posted on
07/18/2011 10:56:52 PM PDT
by
max americana
(FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
To: artichokegrower
Government should not be investing in specific companies and trying to pick winners and losers. They got gamed by their own greed.
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posted on
07/18/2011 10:57:08 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: artichokegrower
Do you really grow artichokes? They are my favorite!
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posted on
07/18/2011 10:57:08 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
To: artichokegrower
I can't imagine a real business that would want to relocate to a jurisdiction that squanders tax money purely on emotion.
In fact, what business is there may want out.
Ahh, but the smell of garlic as you descend down 152 into those lush valleys. What a very pretty place it is.
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posted on
07/18/2011 10:57:38 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: max americana
Now the company will be green with weeds...
Maybe that greenery will help with consuming excess Carbon and reduce Global Warming!
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:01:40 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
To: artichokegrower
"They were awarded this money from the CEC sixteen or eighteen months ago and it just begun to start to trickle out...Money was stolen... bit by bit.
Salinas said it will review everything it did with the company and learn for the experience to be smarter next time.
Not likely.... Not at all.
Liberals don't seem to be smart enough to ever learn from their failures.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:03:40 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
To: SoConPubbie
The technology is not there yet. Green vehicles are like fast trains. Pipe dreams. In the 19th century, even, many railroad companies went bust because they found no market, even with government land and subsidies and mail contracts. Passanger service has never made money even in the heyday of the RR. Freight has always been the profit maker.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:04:36 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: artichokegrower
We have 4,000 young people strawberry pickers graduating every year,...
fixed.
Too bad for them...could have come up with far better uses for that $500K+...I guess you just can't help stupid.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:05:48 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
To: artichokegrower
They should have talked to the city of New London, CT, about how these "get rich quick" schemes work out.
At least the townsfolk didn't lose their homes.
-PJ
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:07:02 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
To: artichokegrower
I could have told you that thing is not going to sell.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:07:09 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: Winstons Julia
Yes I do grow artichokes. We’ve got about 6,000 acres of them.
To: artichokegrower
I was born in Monterey, and Mom used to cook artichokes all the time. I’ll bet most of ‘em came from your place (’course that was 50 years ago).
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:14:55 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: rottndog
We have 4,000 young people strawberry lettuce pickers graduating every year,...This is Salinas you know.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:18:14 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
To: Bullish
“Liberals don’t seem to be smart enough to ever learn from their failures.”
Completely untrue. They invariably blame failures such as this to lack of scale; subsequent failures are larger and therefore more expensive.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:21:59 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Jeff Chandler
Well...strawberries being red on the inside....you know...
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:23:28 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
To: artichokegrower
To: artichokegrower
“Green Vehicles was awarded nearly $2.8 million from Ca Energy Commission but could never get investors to match the funding.”
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The clear difference between spending other people’s money, and spending your own.
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posted on
07/18/2011 11:30:47 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
(2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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