Coston's Complaint: "Sustainable Raleigh" Green Energy Scam

The United States is going through a phase where a group of conspirators have found it easier to raid the taxpayer’s pockets by means of public/private initiatives, rather than go through a market based economy. And it’s all in the name of the fraud known as global warming. Raleigh, North Carolina is in the vanguard.

“Project Get Ready is in harmony with the City of Raleigh’s mission statement. It focuses on 21st century environmental, cultural and economic sustainability. Its objective of providing the infrastructure to support electric vehicles when they begin hitting the showrooms in 2010, conserves our environmental resources by reducing emissions for cleaner air, and reduces our dependence on oil.

“Project Get Ready also embraces our mission statement’s keystone of working with Raleigh universities, colleges, regional partners and citizens to cultivate new opportunities and solutions to strengthen our community.

“At the Project Get Ready – Raleigh kickoff meeting on Feb. 19, we had representatives from throughout the region and every corner of the economy. Dee Freeman, secretary of the State’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources was invaluable. Other notable entities represented at the meeting were Highwoods, Wake County Public Schools, Wake Tech, McLaurin Parking Co., Triangle Transit, North Carolina State University, Enterprise Rental Car, Downtown Raleigh Alliance, Triangle Clean Cities, Progress Energy, St. Augustine’s College, Triangle Town Center, Meredith College, the North Carolina Department of Energy, Research Triangle Energy, Kane Realty, Advanced Energy and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.

“With that lineup of players, Project Get Ready really is ready to succeed in the Triangle. By engaging Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill in Project Get Ready we will not only be partnering with multiple municipalities, we will be involving two power utilities – Progress Energy and Duke Energy.

“We are delighted to embark on this mission with Progress Energy, Advanced Energy Rocky Mountain Institute and the entire Triangle community.”

As part of the partnership, Progress Energy is paying for the plug-in stations. The City of Raleigh is installing them. Six stations will be put in place over the next couple of months, Mayor Meeker said. They will be Downtown – in parking garages and on the street -- and near the campus of North Carolina State University. He noted that the parking garages at North Hills are being considered for the plug-in stations.

These initial stations will allow the City of Raleigh, Advanced Energy and Progress Energy to evaluate vendors, the cost to install stations, the ability to upgrade stations, visibility, potential use and record usage data.

The City of Raleigh is seeking a grant associated with the federal stimulus funding that would provide for the widespread installation of plug-in vehicle infrastructure and 100 cars.

Celgard, a battery manufacturer for electric cars located in Charlotte and Concord, is having financial problems due to a lack of demand. Governments cannot propel create a demand in the market place, only consumers can. Here is a list of all of the “green energy” companies that have went bankrupt, or is in the process of bankruptcy:

Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*

SpectraWatt ($500,000)*

Solyndra ($535 million)*

Beacon Power ($43 million)*

Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)

SunPower ($1.2 billion)

First Solar ($1.46 billion)

Babcock and Brown ($178 million)

EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*

Amonix ($5.9 million)

Fisker Automotive ($529 million)

Abound Solar ($400 million)*

A123 Systems ($279 million)*