https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/01/13/cbs-obama-admin-spent-6-5-billion-on-risky-green-tech-ventures/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 15:27:48 -0400<![CDATA[We already know that the Obama administration&#8217;s stimulus-funded subsidies of green-energy firms have been rather poor investments. Solyndra, after all, collapsed while taking over half a billion dollars in taxpayer money with it, after the Department of Energy illegally subordinated taxpayer risk for later investors &#8212; mainly an Obama bundler from 2008, George Kaiser.  CBS News&#8217; Sharyl Attkisson takes a break from reporting on Operation Fast and Furious to give a closer look at the performance of Barack Obama&#8217;s bets in the green-tech sector &#8212; and says that Obama bet more than $6.5 billion of taxpayer money in junk bonds:]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:54:30 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/01/13/cbs-obama-admin-spent-6-5-billion-on-risky-green-tech-ventures-n183152