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Quid pro quo isn’t a scandal in politics, it is politics.
And no politics is dirtier than the politics around ‘clean energy’ which is full of the wrong kind of green.
Executives, officials and major investors in First Solar, the largest domestic maker of solar panels, donated at least $2 million to Democrats in 2020, including $1.5 million to Biden’s successful bid for the White House. After he won, the company spent $2.8 million more lobbying his administration and Congress, records show — an effort that included high-level meetings with top administration officials…
First Solar became perhaps the biggest beneficiary of an estimated $1 trillion in environmental spending enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act, a major piece of legislation Biden signed into law in 2022 after it cleared Congress solely with Democratic votes.
Since then, First Solar’s stock price has doubled and its profits have soared thanks to new federal subsidies that could be worth as much as $10 billion over a decade. The success has also delivered a massive windfall to a small group of Democratic donors who invested heavily in the company.
First Solar’s top lobbyist, Samantha Sloan, offered a revealing glimpse of the company’s reach after a bill signing celebration.
“Those of us who’ve worked on this know that none of this would have been possible without the dedication and collaboration of a group of Congressional staffers who worked long hours” to ensure that the law would “deliver as intended,” she posted on LinkedIn alongside a photo of herself beaming on the White House South Lawn.
When the Biden administration started writing rules to implement the Democrats’ new law, First Solar executives and lobbyists met at least four times in late 2022 and 2023 with administration officials, including John Podesta, who oversaw the measure’s environmental provisions. One of the more intimate gatherings was attended by Podesta, Widmar and Sloan, as well as First Solar’s contract lobbyist, Claudia James, an old friend of Podesta’s who worked for decades at a lobbying firm run by Podesta’s brother, Tony, records show.
So what is First Solar doing to save the planet?
The answer will be depressingly familiar to anyone who understands how ‘green energy’ subsidies actually work.
The company will benefit from billions of dollars in lucrative tax credits for domestic clean energy manufacturers — a policy aimed at putting the U.S. on a more competitive footing with green energy giant China. Though intended to reward clean energy businesses, the credits can also be sold on the open market to companies that have little to do with fighting climate change.
Last December, First Solar agreed to sell roughly $650 million of these credits to a tech company — providing a massive influx of cash, courtesy of the U.S. government.
Whew. The planet is saved now that the Inflation Increase Act created yet more fake green virtual token to be resold in an open market so that companies have to bribe politically connected companies to be able to do business. To save the planet.
We don’t need clean energy, we need clean government.
And it’s not even green or clean energy! And those panels aren’t cheap either. (I remember you did an article on this.)
“We don’t need clean energy, we need clean government.”. Truer words were never spoken. This whole thing is a scam. Here, I’ve got a billion of what I call Environmental Indulgences. I will sell them to wealthy corporations for a dollar a piece. Makes about as much sense.
First. the error of: “Biden’s successful bid for the White House. After he won,”
Joe Briben was successful to get into the position of POTUS but he did not win! The 2020 election was rigged and stolen just as the 2022 election in Arizona. We are in a vile demonic coup d’etat by foreign and treasonous domestic perps. This is RICO. A coup d’etat without firing a single shot. First salvo was the pLandemic and subsequent control of citizens, business, education, places to worship, recreation, right to funerals. The cinching salvo was the theft of the 2022 election. Everything since then has been an sh*t show of a coup with plans to destroy USA and the free world. These coup d’etat financiers also fund Iran to finance and train hamazz genocide against Israel 10-7-2023. They are brining in young men and women to join terror cells in USA and be trained for the eventual jihad within USA!
One term in this article caught my eye, “green energy giant China”. I assume that refers to their manufacture of solar panels, Lithium batteries and the like, not their clean energy production. If so, it looks like we are making China green with dollars in order to make America green with energy production. So I guess, in some sense both countries get green except one gets their coffers filled while the other’s is emptied. Is that what Biden calls mutual benefit?
Great comment. You nailed it.
On the order of a 1000 to 1 return on their investment in bribes. That 1000 to 1 ratio seems to be fairly consistent.
I read the other day that Joe Biden’s net worth when BHO’B picked him for VP was $40,000 and now is $40 million, so yes that 1000 to one ratio still stands.
So dose Bilden the Blunder want to cover acres of Wildlife Corridor and Pastureland with Solar Panels and do the Eco-Freaks still support him?
pay the jizya you dhimmie dummies or the new IRS jihadis will knock on your door or rather knock it down
Corruption is everywhere in America. How long can America last when there is so much written about it? No wonder there is so little respect for this country anymore.
A recent article indicated that over 100 billion dollars worth of merchandise are stolen from retail stores every year. in America.