There are two types of businesses: successful ones that don’t need financial assistance from the government, and unsuccessful ones that don’t deserve it. Those lucky enough to have foreign deals backed by the Export-Import Bank fall almost entirely in the first group. They don’t need the help, but they’ll take all the favors they can…

Three years old, yet no less true today: Yet most green projects today are just thinly veiled exercises in crony capitalism. Under the guise of an energy revolution, companies are extracting massive government favors, while destroying more jobs than are created and misdirecting domestic energy production. Consider the facts. Last year, direct spending, tax breaks…