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Govt-Backed Battery Plant Furloughs Workers Before Single Battery is Built

President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence "manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,” but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced.

Workers at the Compact Power manufacturing facilities in Holland, Mich., run by LG Chem, have been placed on rotating furloughs, working only three weeks per month based on lack of demand for lithium-ion cells

Source: Fox News. Read full article. (link)

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  • RightNut| |

    Wasn't one of Romney's massive lies from the debate that half of Obama's green energy companies had gone under?

    Should Romney be expecting an apology from the Obama campaign? How about from Jon Stewart?

    http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....night.html

  • Bill| |

    Jobs were provided. All is well.

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