laying off the final 12 employees at the delaware plant. don t blame fisker, blame the clowns who gave fisker your hard-earned green. case and point. this clown testifying at a congressional hearing yesterday. did you know how much d.o.e. spent on travel last year? i don t have the answer. but the amount of money spent by the federal employees is paltry compared to the money spent by the facility management department. when you say paltry, that is a general term. i have not looked at the number. my understanding is it s in the $60 million a year range. eric: so to the d.o.e., $60 million of your money is paltry sum. but what we did not hear was more stunning when asked about the rest of the travel expenditures by the department, mr. freeman said several hundred million was gross understatement. so, the d.o.e., the g.s.a., spending our money, bob, seems
gas prices, you re trying to cutback. what type of average family is going to buy a sports car for six figures. it makes no sense to me. reporter: let s talk about the jobs promises. back in 2009 as we just showed the vice president touted that this new delaware plant would be opening, the company said they thought they could add 2,000 new jobs, in fact they ve laid off a hundred or more workers. how do they get that so wrong? first of all the government should not be in the job of being a venture capitalist, picking and choosing which companies to invest our taxpayer money in. that s what they ve been doing, that happened with solyndra and we saw it happened there, belly-up, bankrupt. they put a lot of money into chrysler. we lost billions of dollars on chrysler. now we re moving to fisker. it s greed initiative. we are going towards company that push obama s energy agenda, which is all about green energy. to put money into fisker into this auto company which never rolled an autom