al gore and, you know, just like solyndra seems like these guys who have real great connections to the president, somehow get involved in these things and what i love to see once the dust settles on this one way or the other to see how protected some investors were. you remember in solyndra a deep pocketed billionaire whose risk came before our risk. in other words, you know what? if something goes wrong we ll pay you off. gregg: that is against the law by the way. i want to put up on the screen some of the companies that have gone belly-up. solyndra, 527 million in taxpayer money. beacon power, 43 million. abound solar, 68 million. and i will add to the list some other companies. enter 1, a123 systems. fisher coach works. what is going on. are the people, for example, in the government and department of energy simply not qualify to look at a company and decide whether it s a make-or-break company? well, they re definitely not qualified.