{"id":4174,"date":"2010-06-29T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2010-06-29T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T03:03:15","slug":"gore-backed-car-firm-gets-large-u-s-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/06\/29\/gore-backed-car-firm-gets-large-u-s-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.<\/p>\n<p>The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125383160812639013.html\">Read more at WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgesmayblog.com\/al-gores-car-company-gets-over-a-12-billion-dollars-to-build-cars-in-sweden\/\">Al Gore to build cars in Sweden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}