December 13, 2012

Ramping Up Government Control of Energy

Jeffrey Folks, American Thinker


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If insanity consists of "doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to come out different," President Obama is surely mad. He has spent four years funding green energy start-ups that have failed, one after another. Now he wants to spend the next four years funding green energy firms that are again likely to fail.

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