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  • Not Even Fisker's Fire Sale Can Dampen DOE Enthusiasm for 'Investments'

    09/19/2013 3:02:43 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 6 replies
    NLPC ^ | September 19, 2013 | Paul Chesser
    After the Department of Energy announced this week ithad given up on not-bankrupt-but-should-be Fisker Automotive, and will auction off its loan for a pittance, you’d think (and hope) Congress would have had enough of this kind of thing. Senator John Thune certainly has. “The Obama administration has gotten into the business of picking winners and losers at a significant cost to taxpayers,” said the South Dakota Republican yesterday. “I’m calling for the Senate to consider my amendment to eliminate the wasteful ATVM loan program and for my colleagues to join me in protecting taxpayer dollars from any future risky green...
  • Pelosi: GOP using disaster aid as excuse to kill clean-vehicles program

    09/22/2011 2:01:39 PM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 13 replies
    Pelosi: GOP using disaster aid as excuse to kill clean-vehicles program By Mike Lillis - 09/22/11 04:04 PM ET House Republicans are using the disaster-relief debate as a guise for killing off an environmental program they oppose, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi charged Thursday. The California Democrat said the GOP's proposal to cut $1.5 billion from the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program (ATVM) is as much an effort to end that initiative as it is a deficit-reduction strategy. "There's a billion and a half dollars left in the [ATVM] till," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "They take a billion...