You may have already read our detail of the huge government grant that went to Fisker Automotive for its construction of their new electric sports car. Well, what just came out in the Wall Street Journal is a bit of explanation as to the WHY behind it.
See, Fisker Automotive has a major name backer behind it; you may recognize the name when I tell you it’s Al Gore. That five hundred and twenty nine million is going to Fisker so they can build “a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000″.
Naturally, Fisker cars are also backed by a whole lot of celebrities who all, interestingly enough, voted Democrat in the last election. Fisker defends itself by saying that most technology starts out pricey, but eventually becomes affordable, and cites flatscreen televisions as an example.
Yes, this is true, but generally we don’t pay foreign flatscreen makers tax money to build them in the hopes that, one day, we’ll get to BUY THEM! Oh, and those five thousand jobs that Fisker mentioned? From the look of it, they’ll be in Finland rather than in the United States.
My disgust is palpable.
Tags: electric cars, electric roadster, Fisker, fisker automotive, Tesla, tesla motors
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I think you need to name the other celebrities that have backed Fisker. We need to know who is pushing this and what are their ties to the democratic party and how much did they give to the democratice party