Obama's alternative energy bankruptcies    @hargreavesCNN
October 22, 2012: 11:16 PM ET obama solar  President Obama has
faced a barrage of criticism for a handful of energy companies
that went bankrupt after receiving government funding.
President Obama is getting hammered for funding renewable energy
companies that have since gone belly up.  During the first
presidential debate, Mitt Romney said "about half" of the
companies funded by Obama's administration went bankrupt. That
is true -- for just the first two years of the program that
supported Solyndra, which the campaign later clarified. (See
correction below).   But a spokesman for the Energy Department
said that agency has dozens of programs that funded over 1,300
companies in the renewable energy space, and that less than 1%
have gone bankrupt -- also true.  So just how many federally-
funded energy companies have failed?  A total of five have gone
bankrupt, according to the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce. All of the failed companies that the