Falls Short of Goal

-A local middle school principle was actualy gitty when the electric bill for 09/11 was received...$3,147.94 CREDIT from Duke Energy. Hold it, reality check: the cost for the solar cells and the installation tallied $3,200,000. Simple ROI =$3.2/ $3,148/mo = 1,0165 mos./12 = 84.7yrs. That about the same ROI yrs. as when the City Park District installed same on the roofs of their buildings, as reported earlier. Duke Power had to later declare the 13 units as miniscule power generators., Apparantly the Park District discovered ROI sucked.
-Energy Secty. Chu, a scientist not a business man per se, signed off on another Solar Cell manufacture (SunPower) during the last days of the pp's Stimulus I hand out for >$ 2 B and now they were reportly going belly up.
-The number of green jobs created from the 2009 Stimulus Program has been but 8,035 through 06/2011, when 79,964 job was predicted by WH/BLS. Extremely poor batting average.
-WH's GM still owes taxpayers >$6 B, but that didn't stop GM to signing a new generous labor contract with UAW.
-Chev's Volt was scheduled to produce 10,000 cars this year ($41,000 - $8,000 WH rebate = net ~$33,000). YTD ~ 4,000 sold. Hummm.
-GM coming out in 2012 with a mini-Volt, battery only operated car, will travel about the same distance as the Volt on battery = 35 miles(perhaps a greater distance since its to be smaller car thus weighs is less), before it runs out of juice. Standing lines are not forming on either vehicle at this writing.
-Comment of the Day: In 8 months you will not be able to get your hands on foie gras! Yep, its going to be outlawed only in California.