Taking money from the government and letting the taxpayer be the loser of first resort is not the same thing as private equity. So far most of the "green investments" the current administration has made are simply money stuffed down a rat hole. If the investment was worth doing there would be no need for government guarantees or matching funds. The way this normally works is that the investors get any profit and the taxpayers are stuck with the losses. All for the politically connected politically correct investor. Solyndra comes to mind as well as several others.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.