J. P. Freire has a good post over at the Examiner on all the stimulus booty that went overseas. An excerpt:
Stimulus creating green jobs abroad, does nothing for energy independence
Despite claims that stimulus funding would (a) reduce energy dependence on other countries, and (b) create jobs domestically, taxpayer dollars to support the renewable energy industry have instead gone overseas. According to the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, more than 80 percent of the first $1 billion in grants to wind energy companies went to foreign firms:
Since then, the administration has stopped making announcements of new grants to wind, solar and geothermal companies, but has handed out another $1 billion, bringing the total given out to $2.1 billion and the total that went to companies based overseas to more than 79 percent.
In fact, the largest grant made under the program so far, a $178 million payment on Dec. 29, went to Babcock & Brown, a bankrupt Australian company that built a Texas wind farm using turbines made by a Japanese company.
The rest here.