"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"
National Review (4/12/24) column: "'Solyndra' is a byword for the pitfalls of corporate welfare and industrial policy. The Obama administration gave the solar-energy company over $500 million as part of its economic stimulus program during the recovery from the Great Recession. Solyndra went out of business two years later. Greg Pollowitz covered it from start to finish for NR...'It made solar panels, a product so green that Democrats could almost forget that this was a profit-oriented corporation, backed by venture capitalists, oil money, and private-equity funds, and led by a former Intel executive'...Well, the 'former Intel executive' mentioned in the editorial was Brian Harrison, who was Solyndra’s CEO in 2010 and 2011. What’s Brian Harrison up to these days? He’s the president of TSMC Arizona — the U.S. subsidiary of the Taiwanese semiconductor company that was recently awarded $6.6 billion from the CHIPS Act. 'Harrison, who is overseeing TSMC’s projects in Arizona, said he was involved in securing the federal financing in a media interview last August,' reports the Washington Free Beacon. Free-market advocates will sometimes be mocked for comparing too many government programs to Solyndra. But can you blame us when, 13 years later, the federal government is giving more than ten times as much money to a company led by Solyndra’s former CEO?"
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"Coloradans have a choice. They can stay in the game and reap the economic and fiscal benefits that attend oil and gas extraction. Or they can quit, which will have ripple effects not only in Colorado but across the nation."
– Bernard L. Weinstein,
Real Clear Energy
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