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The Obama administration was pro-solar, so the GOP had to be, has been, anti-solar. Remember the Solyndra "scandal." It's not about "annoying the environmentali

The Obama administration was pro-solar, so the GOP had to be, has been, anti-solar. Remember the Solyndra "scandal." It's not about "annoying the environmentalists" per see, it's about motivating those voters who do get revved up about annoying the environmentalists. That's certainly not the only reason but it would be naïve to wave it away at this point. As the article points out, the situation we find ourselves in has been years in the making. US PV production has actually been in decline just as PV is starting to make sense.

tyingq 9y ago
>Remember the Solyndra "scandal" The rest of your comment rings true with me. Why the quotes on scandal though? It certainly didn't work out well for taxpayers. Half a billion in government loan guarantees gone. Edit: Politics aside, Solyndra falsified information on their loan application, were raided by the FBI, and skewered in an IG report. It sounds like a scandal just on their part alone.
- redblacktree 9y ago
  500m is 0.008% of the 6.5 trillion unaccounted for at the pentagon[0]. Why did we make such a big deal out of Solyndra, while overlooking a problem about 3 orders of magnitude larger? I think the scare quotes are warranted. Solyndra was only a big deal because a Democratic administration did it. [0]: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2 http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2
  - tyingq 9y ago
    Trying to leave politics out of it. The FBI raid, and IG report seem to indicate "scandal" is fair. That is, on Solyndra's part.
- nate_meurer 9y ago
  Overall, it's actually worked out very well for taxpayers. The program that provided the Solyndra loans has made billions of dollars for the government, with a very low loss ratio: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/trump-can-t-kill-solyndra-loan-program-that-outperforms-banks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/trump-can...

tyingq 9y ago

>Remember the Solyndra "scandal" The rest of your comment rings true with me. Why the quotes on scandal though? It certainly didn't work out well for taxpayers. Half a billion in government loan guarantees gone. Edit: Politics aside, Solyndra falsified information on their loan application, were raided by the FBI, and skewered in an IG report. It sounds like a scandal just on their part alone.

redblacktree 9y ago
500m is 0.008% of the 6.5 trillion unaccounted for at the pentagon[0]. Why did we make such a big deal out of Solyndra, while overlooking a problem about 3 orders of magnitude larger? I think the scare quotes are warranted. Solyndra was only a big deal because a Democratic administration did it. [0]: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2 http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2
- tyingq 9y ago
  Trying to leave politics out of it. The FBI raid, and IG report seem to indicate "scandal" is fair. That is, on Solyndra's part.
nate_meurer 9y ago
Overall, it's actually worked out very well for taxpayers. The program that provided the Solyndra loans has made billions of dollars for the government, with a very low loss ratio: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/trump-can-t-kill-solyndra-loan-program-that-outperforms-banks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/trump-can...