Some GOP House Members may see no problem in pushing H.R. 1380, the Boonedoggle, Pickens-Your-Pocket Bill, which would hand out tax credits up to $64,000 apiece for the purchase of natural gas vehicles, because, after all, chief beneficiary T. Boone Pickens is a major donor to Republican candidates.

According to Investor’s Business Daily, however, H.R. 1380 would also confer windfall profits on the Left’s patron-in-chief, billionaire George Soros. IBD explains:

It so happens that a company called Westport Innovations is a leading provider of technology that allows engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas and would be expected to benefit from HR 1380′s huge allocation of taxpayer dollars.

According to the folks at gurufocus.com, which monitors the wheeling and dealing of major investors, George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire who has made a fortune manipulating currencies among other financial shenanigans, owned 5,547,604 shares of WPRT, valued at $122 million as of March 31. That represented 1.45% of his equity portfolio and his third-largest holding.

So Soros could once again profit handsomely from U.S. energy policy determined largely by a Democratic party whose causes he has supported over the years, just as he profited from his investment in Petrobras, the state-run Brazilian oil giant.

On the company’s Web site, Westport Innovations describes itself as “The global leader in natural gas engines.” It says: “The Westport group of companies has sold over 32,000 natural gas and propane engines to customers in over 20 countries.” So yeah, H.R. 1830 would enrich Westport and the Left’s Daddy Warbucks.

GOP House Members who are unwilling to oppose H.R. 1380 out of free market principle should consider doing so out of a sense of political survival.