Democrats apparently decided at some point in the last five years that they were going to stop pushing renewable energy primarily as a way to save the polar bears and spotted owls, but instead as some sort of job creator and economic stimulus.
The glaring wrongness of that argument — that subsidizing solar panels and windmills will make us richer — is why we conservatives and libertarians jump all over stuff like Solyndra’s going bankrupt after a huge federal loan guarantee, and the political coziness involved in the deal.
We get a new story in this realm: Last week, the blog “24/7 Wall Street” posted about SunPower, a subsidized solar company:
Well, today, Neil McCabe at Human Events has some interesting details on SunPower: the company’s biggest congressional booster is Rep. George Miller, while his son, George Miller works for the company as a lobbyist at a firm representing SunPower before California’s government.
SunPower’s DC lobbyist is former Democratic aide and bigtime Dem fundraiser Patrick Murphy.
