Climate Elite Gretchen Whitmer Spent $670 Million On Green Crazy

But, better, what actually happened?

Whitmer’s Michigan spent $670 million on green energy & EV corporate welfare — ZERO jobs created after three years! https://t.co/McjZL6D0x5 pic.twitter.com/IPUeYJRqHU

— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) March 22, 2025

From the Midwesterner article

Green energy and EV taxpayer-funded handouts from SOAR Critical Industry Program promised thousands of jobs that never transpired

Three years after lawmakers created the Strategic Outreach Attraction Reserve Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said would “create tens of thousands of good paying jobs,” not a single one has materialized.

Michigan taxpayers have shelled out more than $670 million to five multibillion companies to prop up the electric vehicle and renewable energy industries in Michigan with a promise to create a total of 8,812 jobs, but a report from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation that oversees the spending shows zero “actual qualified jobs created.”

“The program was poorly designed from the start,” said James Hohman, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “It allows companies to cash in on taxpayer subsidies without having to create jobs. Lawmakers must wait years to ask for taxpayer money back if deals fail to deliver. It’s good that House lawmakers are working to redirect this money to roads.”

Some of the companies have been around for a while (did GM really need this money?), some, like Our Next Energy, are start ups and have done nothing. This is all a scam.

Not only have the jobs failed to materialize, companies awarded taxpayer funds have backed out of their commitments, or laid off employees.

Earlier this month, Our Next Energy cut two dozen Michigan jobs in a second round of layoffs since receiving its $200 million payout. The company also laid off 128 workers in November to focus on “core priorities,” according to The Detroit News.

Scam. Maybe I need to at a “Green Scam” sub-category to the Global Warming category.

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