>> not at all. >> in september 2009 brenner invited calzada to testify to the committee.peated his warning subsidizing renewable green energy does not provide more jobs. >> i am sure spain has a lot of economic good things to show your country but this policy related to renewable specifically is not one of them. >> democrats in turn hammered him with the department of energy report. >> they have concluded that your research was not necessarily the gold standard on evaluating this issue. we will be following your conclusions and moving forward with this. >> as the obama administration was rejecting his findings his own government was concluding he was right. in february, 2011 spain severely curtailed green economy subsidies. >> we were creating more debt. the spanish government was on the verge of collapse because of this system. >> has the president stopped referencing spain? >> of course he stopped referencing spain. spain is an economic basket case. the reason this hasn't caught on is because it's much more expensive to generate this kind of electricity when you put it