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December 15, 2011

Subsidies for Renewables: American As Apple Pie

Pfund & Healey, Huffington Post


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The collapse this past August of Solyndra, a California solar panel manufacturer backed with $500 million in federal loan guarantees, has sparked loud and ongoing complaints over renewable energy subsidies. "It is not the role of government to pick winners and losers," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, Fred Upton, in a September statement. "Let's learn the lessons of Solyndra before another dollar goes out the door. . ."

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