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Politics : The Solyndra Scandal

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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (530)8/12/2012 2:21:48 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1400
 
Another Obama-funded electric car goes up in flames, endangers entire neighborhood with massive blaze

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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.




Next came the mysterious fires.
After this particular blaze in May (above), the local fire department determined the origin was the owner's two week-old Fisker Karma electric vehicle.




Yesterday, another Fisker spontaneously combusted. The owner parked in a Woodside, CA parking lot, entered a grocery store to shop, and returned shortly thereafter to a burning vehicle.




Like the prior incident, the car was new, had never been damaged in a collision, was not plugged in and was not running.


It is worth noting that the car was parked in a heavily wooded area also suffering from a drought; the Fisker could therefore have touched off a significant wildfire. I wonder what the carbon footprint of a wildfire is?

The good news for Fisker? The problem could be in the battery, which is not made by Fisker, but is manufactured by a different company called A123 systems.

The bad news for taxpayers?
A123 systems received a quarter of a billion dollars in Obama green grant money.

How many billions of dollars has this administration flushed down the toilet in pursuit of
the enviro-Statist agenda? Hopefully the investigations will begin in January of next year.
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