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To: TopCat who wrote (629329)9/24/2011 12:13:00 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1578208
 
>> Solyndra didn’t have enough big commercial customers to create the necessary economies of scale.

It is worse than that IMO, because it wasn't just a problem of economies. No matter what "economies" may have been generated by more business, these guys did not have any access to the capital -- even after the taxpayer loan -- to get to the required level of production.

There was no way this business was going to make it and everyone knew it when the taxpayers forked over the money.



To: TopCat who wrote (629329)9/24/2011 12:14:06 PM
From: steve harris  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578208
 
Seems there are "connections" underlying the Solyndra scandal...

newsmax.com

nationalcenter.org

Immelt, Doerr, Westly, Cathy Zoi's husband - Robin Roy.....

Nothing here, move along......right Z?



To: TopCat who wrote (629329)9/24/2011 1:58:20 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578208
 
>Now tell me again why WE invested in this company and these people.

Because as of a couple of years ago, it looked like the technology they were using was going to be the dominant one. It didn't turn out that way. That's business.

-Z