'GOP stop this bailout’: Solar company partly owned by Google seeks gov't grant to pay off loan

NRG Energy received $1.6B for solar mirrors; has applied for fed grant of $539 more to "repay" the "loan". Congress stop this shell game

— Thomas Kane (@kaneempower) November 8, 2014

Ivanpah solar in California wants a fed grant to pay off a fed loan that built the plant. The US tax payer is financing a private company.

— Big John (@Bigjohn6531) November 8, 2014

This all sounds so familier…

Solar and electric generating plant partly owned by Google is seeking a grant of hundreds of millions of federal dollars to put towards paying off a federal loan for the construction of a plant:

World's largest solar plant applying for federal grant to pay off federal loan http://t.co/z0vpXhARqo via @foxnewspolitics

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 8, 2014

The people who have been on the hook for this kind of thing for years remain in disbelief:

WTF RT @FoxNews: World's largest solar plant applying for federal grant to pay off federal loan http://t.co/HICkeCH430 via @foxnewspolitics

— Hair (@SHannitysHair) November 8, 2014

@FoxNews @foxnewspolitics Pretty ironic ……..isn't that supposed to save us money somehow?????

— rb (@barnburner88) November 8, 2014

@FoxNews @foxnewspolitics That might be illegal.

— Peter Costas (@pcostas01) November 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/Ancoti/status/530878566268145664

Good question “@Ancoti: @me @FoxNews @foxnewspolitics A fed grant to pay off a fed loan. Can you do that with your income taxes? #ShellGame”

— ?SúperStabbyLatina ? (@SuperAndrea) November 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/Ralph_and_Wife/status/531053880831148034

looky here….google BILLIOINAIRES got BILLIONS to build solar scam, now want BAILOUT! JUST SAY NO NO NO! http://t.co/WKhffTkke1

— oldmomster (@oldmomster) November 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/JadedByPolitics/status/531040053217468417

The boondoggles never end!