NEWS FLASH

Even Solyndra-Obsessed Tea Partiers Believe In Solar Investment | “Voters believe that the clean energy economy is here and is growing, and they want their state to have a part of it,” surveys and focus groups conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates have found. The Solyndra bankruptcy “scandal” is only reaching the Tea-Party audience of Fox News, “who expressed deep cynicism about government, business, and most other major institutions in American life.” “But even the most hardened conservatives in that group strongly agreed that the solar industry is strong, growing, and worthy of future investment.” David Roberts comments: “The conservative argument, which tries to use Solyndra to tarnish the whole idea of public investments in clean energy, is failing.”