follow the money 666

FOLLOW THE MONEY! Gore global warming lie = 600,000 share of Occidental Petroleum and carbon offsets sham, books and movies Kennedy's = Hugo Chavez oil, Oscar Wyatt oil Clinton's = Brazilian ethanol investment Nancy Pelosi = 22,000 shares of CLNE stock (Wind turbines) Millions of dollars for research grants to colleges How about the lefts effort to keep us from drilling? Where has the money come from to support this junk science? Saudi interests? Millions of dollars to colleges and universities in grants. Other public figures, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have vocally supported government financing of energy-saving technologies, have investments in alternative energy ventures. Some scientists and policy advocates also promote energy policies that personally enrich them. As a private citizen, Mr. Gore does not have to disclose his income or assets, as he did in his years in Congress and the White House. When he left government in early 2001, he listed assets < http://pfds.opensecrets.org/ of less than $2 million, including homes in suburban Washington and in Tennessee. Since then, his net worth has skyrocketed, helped by timely investments in Apple and Google, profits from books and his movie, and scores of speeches for which he can be paid more than $100,000, although he often speaks at no charge. "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri http://www.rkpachauri.org/ the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.* The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla, like Fisker, is a California startup focusing on high-end hybrids, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.* Fisker’s Karma hybrid sports car, above, will initially cost about $89,000.* The awards to Fisker and Tesla have prompted concern from companies that have had their bids for loans rejected, and criticism from groups that question why vehicles aimed at the wealthiest customers are getting loans subsidized by taxpayers.* This is not for average Americans,” said Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, an anti-tax group in Washington.“This is for people to put something in their driveway that is a conversation piece. It’s status symbol thing.”* via Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan – WSJ.com https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125383160812639013https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125383160812639013