{"id":378984,"date":"2025-05-20T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378984"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:15:46","slug":"crony-alert-jigar-shah-at-climate-solutions-dinner-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378984","title":{"rendered":"Crony Alert: Jigar Shah at \u2018Climate Solutions\u2019 Dinner in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Solutions<\/a>, \u201caccelerating the transition to our clean energy future,\u201d has its annual dinner this Tuesday night<\/a>. This is your<\/em> chance to visit with leaders of the Climate Industrial Complex, rich and bossy with a strong desire to pick the pocket of local, state, and national taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With billions of DOE dollars held in escrow,\u00a0Jigar Shah<\/a>\u00a0will provide the latest coordinates of where\u00a0the gold bricks landed that were thrown off the Titanic.<\/a>\u00a0No talk title was given, so I\u2019ll suggest one: \u201cMonetizing the Unearned: Podesta\/Biden Energy Policy by the Billions.\u201d This refers to the Inflation Reduction Act\u2019s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, $20 billions of which was rushed out the door with Trump\u2019s electoral victory. Shah was at the controls of the\u00a0legal looting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Climate Solutions is excited to hold our Annual Dinner event in Seattle on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 5pm-8:30pm at the Westin Seattle with guest speaker Jigar Shah. Jigar is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and energy strategist. Shah most recently served as Director of the Loan Programs Office for the U.S. Department of Energy from March 2021 to January 2025.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The crony crowd is running scared, with the displaced Jigar Shah and a few others (Jennifer Granholm<\/a>) hanging in there with lucrative green employment. But America has caught on. and easy federal budget cuts could result in a mass redeployment of resources to the real market, the free market, in the months ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Solutions, \u201caccelerating the transition to our clean energy future,\u201d has its\u00a0annual dinner this Tuesday night. This is\u00a0your\u00a0chance to visit with leaders of the Climate Industrial Complex, rich and bossy with a strong desire to pick the pocket of local, state, and national taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":378989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819627,691830765,691833705,691818576,691835199],"class_list":{"0":"post-378984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-clean-energy","9":"tag-climate-industrial-complex-2","10":"tag-greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund","11":"tag-inflation-reduction-act","12":"tag-jigar-shah","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0ChatGPT-Image-20.-Mai-2025-17_13_59.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1AAE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":243324,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=243324","url_meta":{"origin":378984,"position":0},"title":"What Debt Ceiling? 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