Your own example undermines your point. Solyndra, a company, was part of a much larger Energy Department program that was profitable for the US government. Tesla itself was kept afloat by loans from this program [0]. This has all been well-reported, you can read up on it. [1]
making an inappropriate hand gesture is comparable to being a mass murderer?
> Can you give an example of one of these "useless" green programs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra