....”ABC News recently reported that a $529 million loan from the Energy Department was used to back an electric car company, Fisker Automotive, that is creating jobs in Finland and not in the U.S. The loan announced in 2009 to Fisker Automotive was part of the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program that was initiated during the Bush administration.
The loan to Fisker Automotive financially benefited Al Gore and his billionaire venture capital business partner John Doerr, who is a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and a big political donor to Democrats. Al Gore and John Doerr are partners in the venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB).”.....
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/27/occupy-wall-street-should-protest-crony-capitalism/
Al Gore is not a smart man. We all know this.
So I'll ask a bigger question, and just throw it out there to the wind - WHY does the Democrat Party keep paying Gore off????