Redneck, I tend to agree with you most of the time, but IMO Brian is to blame. He is the CEO of this tiny fledgling company, and he PR'd the crap out of this (at the time) and led us down a path of promise: Mack, Peter, warehouses, grants, loans, fuel shipments, windmills, partnerships with MEG - the list goes on and on. There were enough reasons to believe in this by virtue of the involvement of "reputable" third parties (SCSU, Mack, Peter, Pickens, etc.) that we could overlook the somewhat sketchy past of our CEO. Why would anyone with such credentials be involved in a scam, I/we asked ourselves...
Brian should have been on the ground, in charge, and holding Mack accountable long before this. He instead chose to keep his damn cards "close to the chest", which we now know was a complete lie and signal that things weren't going well. Many called him out on this, and were right, but more (including myself) chose not to believe the worst. He repeatedly dangled carrots out there in PR's, as if they were virtually money in the bank, and NONE of them has materialized. Yeah, Mac should have gotten it done (as far as we know), but the CEO is untimately responsible for the performance of the company. Granted, if I go to McDonald's and get cold fries, it's not the CEO's fault. But for a small venture capital-type endeavor like this, we owe it all to him.
Again, all IMO, folks. Good luck to everyone - here's to a brighter future for all of us.
