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Title: Green Vehicles Goes Under, Takes Salinas (CA) With It (zero investors)
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WorldNow and KION
URL Source: http://www.kionrightnow.com/story/1 ... es-under-takes-salinas-with-it
Published: Jul 19, 2011
Author: Brooke Holmquist
Post Date: 2011-07-19 16:10:08 by Hondo68
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Keywords: new green vehicle proto-types, could never get investors, be smarter next time
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Comments: 28
SALINAS, Calif.- Green Vehicles is empty and it's doors are locked.
The worst part, Salinas lost $540,000 in the closure and now it needs to find something else to hang its economic hat on.
$240,000 the city paid and $300,000 came from a one-time grant for new tech jobs.
Last year, Salinas mayor Dennis Donohue test drove one of the new green vehicle proto-types.
Salinas was beyond excited when start up company "Green Vehicles" wanted to come to their city, but, "This is disappointing as all get out," said economic development director Jeff Weir.
As of last week, and this blog from the president announcing green vehicles closure, a huge tax base and revitlization of the old Firestone Business Complex, being on the cutting edge of the alternative energy industry and 50 new jobs just to start, turned into a pipe dream.
"And then on top of that all the different suppliers we had them introduce us to brand new battery manufacturing company that's on the cutting edge of technology," said Weir.
But now that business won't come.
Green Vehicles was awarded nearly $2.8 million from Ca Energy Commission but could never get investors to match the funding.
"They were awarded this money from the CEC sixteen or eighteen months ago and it just begun to start to trickle out...The traditional investment community have just draw back from anything having to do with alternative energy. They're just waiting to see who survives."
It won't be Green Vehicles. Now, Salinas must re-evaluate what economic driver they will hang their hat on next.
"We just cannot not do this we have to go out and get new businesses to come, but we have to understand what we are committing ourselves to...We have 4,000 young people graduating every year, new jobs don't happen by themselves you got to participate, you have to help make it happen," said Weir. The city doesn't know if it will be able to re-coup any of the money it lost.
Salinas said it will review everything it did with the company and learn for the experience to be smarter next time.
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The green government money has dried up, so the alternative energy con men move on to the next commune of eco-rubes.
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How come none of the green eco-nuts here, invested THEIR MONEY in this?
You can make it cheaper in China and who want's to employ uppity Americans with all their talk about having "rights" anyway? Give capitalists hard working slave labor overseas any time.
Chinese automakers showcase green car ambitions
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
I posted this a couple of days ago
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. — Thomas Jefferson
#3. To: Godwinson (#1) (Edited)
Chinese automakers showcase green car ambitions
China doesn't have any eco-nuts, they killed them all, and charged their families for the bullets. So there's no army of regulators to charge the manufacturers a carbon tax, every time one of the workers cuts a fart.
California has the worlds worst business climate due to socialist nanny state meddling socialists. Businesses are forced to leave the state, or outsource to a less communist environment, like China.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Great response.
#5. To: hondo68, socalv8, lucysmom (#3)
California has the worlds worst business climate due to socialist nanny state meddling socialists.
Cali should be run by the Communist party like China. Like I said, all those uppity Americans with their big mouths. Americans need to be enslaved so they can satisfy their employers desires for a compliant work force.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#6. To: hondo68 (#0)
The worst part, Salinas lost $540,000 in the closure and now it needs to find something else to hang its economic hat on.
What do you bet that a large portion of that money ended up in Jerry Browns pocket.....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!!
#7. To: CZ82 (#6)
What do you bet that a large portion of that money ended up in Jerry Browns pocket.....
How do you arrive at that?
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
#8. To: lucysmom, CZ82 (#7)
bet that a large portion of that money ended up in Jerry Browns pocket.....How do you arrive at that?
More likely (R)nulled. Dang Austrian socialist!
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#9. To: Godwinson (#5)
Cali should be run by the Communist party like China.
It has been. Moonbeam, Boxer, Feinstein, Tony Vilar, etc.
Liberal Hollywood doesn't film in Liberal Hollywood anymore. Why?
#10. To: hondo68 (#3)
China doesn't have any eco-nuts, they killed them all, and charged their families for the bullets.
Chinese like to see the air they breathe, especially since their Yankee/Chinese employers get to pay their healthcare bills.
#11. To: socalv8 (#9)
It has been. Moonbeam, Boxer, Feinstein, Tony Vilar, etc. Liberal Hollywood doesn't film in Liberal Hollywood anymore. Why?
Too many houses and all that smog.
#12. To: mininggold (#11)
Too many houses and all that smog.
Too many taxes and all that regulation. The ruling California Left chased all their income away.
True about the houses, but smog is overhyped.
#13. To: hondo68 (#8)
bet that a large portion of that money ended up in Jerry Browns pocket..... How do you arrive at that?More likely (R)nulled. Dang Austrian socialist!
You're probably right, Jerry hasn't been there long enough to get the lay of the land and probably didn't even know they existed.... besides that the amount of money would have been too small for him to go after anyway, Dems like to extort big bucks!!!!
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!!
#14. To: socalv8 (#9) (Edited)
It has been. Moonbeam, Boxer, Feinstein, Tony Vilar, etc. Liberal Hollywood doesn't film in Liberal Hollywood anymore. Why?
Those people are neither Chinese, nor communist, nor socialists.
Like I said, capitalists don't want to hire Americans because they tend to be uppity and arrogant and always on about their "rights".
They would rather manufacture in nations where the population observes silent serf like obedience and accepts slave wages for a 12 hour work day.
I think the GOP is in the process of getting Americans to consider themselves unworthy and to self abuse themselves and then when they are beaten down and groveling then and only then maybe some jobs from overseas will return at slave wage levels.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#15. To: Godwinson (#14)
Those people are neither Chinese, nor communist, nor socialists.
Semi-correct. They are Hollywood Liberals and they shit on their own rug, again.
Taxes+Regulations x100= Business Flees
slave wages
Really?
...getting Americans to consider themselves unworthy and to self abuse themselves...
Have you ever taken personal responsibilty for anything? DemLibs don't either.
#16. To: socalv8 (#12) (Edited)
True about the houses, but smog is overhyped.
Yeah right. I remember in the sixties when you could go right past Santa Ana on the freeway and not see one damned building.
#17. To: socalv8 (#12)
Too many taxes and all that regulation. The ruling California Left chased all their income away.
Actually it's other more socialist locales that are enticing their business through the use of taxpayer supported perks and kick backs.
#18. To: mininggold (#16)
Yeah right. I remember in the sixties...
70's were bad, too. In the 80's it started getting better. Better engines? Different gas? More wind? I've always wondered why nobody is taking credit.
#19. To: mininggold (#17)
Actually it's other more socialist locales that are enticing their business through the use of taxpayer supported perks and kick backs.
Vancouver, North Carolina and Michigan are getting rich.
#20. To: socalv8, mininggold, lucysmom (#15)
Those people are neither Chinese, nor communist, nor socialists.Semi-correct. They are Hollywood Liberals and they shit on their own rug, again.
I guess those words that makes sense to kooks like you. Since I left the Republican party my ability to decipher kookisms has lessened.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#21. To: socalv8, mininggold, lucysmom (#18)
70's were bad, too. In the 80's
In the long view of history, the 70s was the last era in which Americans who were middle class actually earned a good living. After the Reagan 80s the earnings of middle America (and 99% of Americans) has stagnated or fallen while working hours have increased.
How long will this "1970s was bad" lie continue by the GOP?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#22. To: socalv8 (#15)
Semi-correct. They are Hollywood Liberals and they shit on their own rug, again. Taxes+Regulations x100= Business Flees
California has the eighth largest economy in the world, four steps ahead of conservative, low tax Texas; both share first place for the number of Fortune 500 companies located within their borders.
The average income in California is about twice that of Texas. No doubt average income in California is higher because California has more than twice as many billionaires as Texas; 95 to 42. In fact, California has 10% of the world's billionaires. Most of Texas' billionaires made their money in energy, California's from a wide range of businesses. Texas has more land area, but California has the largest population.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
#23. To: Godwinson (#21)
How long will this "1970s was bad" lie continue by the GOP?
Just as long as they can get people to believe it.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
#24. To: Godwinson (#21)
How long will this "1970s was bad" lie continue by the GOP?
We were talking about smog. Quit picking out quips and flicking at them with your tired dogma. You're lazy. Understand what is being discussed, please.
#25. To: Godwinson (#20)
Since I left the Republican party my ability to decipher kookisms has lessened.
High taxes and big government are bad for business and therefore bad for citizens.
I'm not surprised this fact is foreign to you. But at least this time your confusion isn't based on misreading what was being discussed. Kudos.
#26. To: socalv8 (#25)
High taxes and big government are bad for business and therefore bad for citizens.
Proven false.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#27. To: socalv8 (#24)
Understand what is being discussed, please.
He is incapable of doing so.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. — Thomas Jefferson
#28. To: Godwinson (#5)
Americans need to be enslaved so they can satisfy their employers desires for a compliant work force.
Interesting idea.
Let's start... with YOU.
It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow slogans from 1984:
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished.
Stephen King observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [so] logic can be happily tossed out the window.
This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots...
THEIR God... is the STATE.
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