{"id":14132,"date":"2012-06-01T21:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2012-06-01T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:04:32","slug":"creating-jobs-with-stimulus-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14132","title":{"rendered":"Creating Jobs With Stimulus Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/fisker-build-electric-cars-us\/story?id=16458585#.T8cyHfWDmSo\">ABC News<\/a>\u00a0reported that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fisker Automotive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiskerautomotive.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Fisker Automotive<\/a>, a company that received nearly $200 million in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama administration<\/a> loan money, is signaling that it may not\u00a0build its next generation <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hybrid electric vehicle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid_electric_vehicle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">hybrid electric vehicle<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fisker received federal funds in part to help purchase a shuttered <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"General Motors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/general-motors\/\" rel=\"forbes\" target=\"_blank\">General Motors<\/a> plant in Delaware, where it predicted it would one day employ 2,000 auto workers to assemble the clean-burning gas-electric family car, known as the Atlantic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But company executives began hinting in February that it would reconsider that plan and look for a cheaper place to build the car after the Department of Energy froze the $529 million green-energy loan the company had received, and had been drawing on since 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article further details the saga of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fisker Karma\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fisker_Karma\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Karma<\/a>, a flashy $100,000 hybrid sports sedan that it assembles in Finland. There have been some problems with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lithium-ion battery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithium-ion_battery\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a> in the Karma. The\u00a0Karma that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Consumer Reports\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consumer_Reports\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports<\/a> was road testing stopped working in the middle of the road test. There was also a recall of the batteries because of a defect that raised the risk of fire.<\/p>\n<p>This is another example of foolish spending on green energy by the current administration. I don&#8217;t think that I would let President Obama manage my stock portfolio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=9e58bcb7-a2d7-4280-893e-ce657c8c3316\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday\u00a0ABC News\u00a0reported that Fisker Automotive, a company that received nearly $200 million in Obama administration loan money, is signaling that it may not\u00a0build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States. The article reports: Fisker received federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3159,3158,1703,3160,285,483],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumer-reports","tag-fisker-automotive","tag-fisker-karma","tag-karma","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}