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Originally Posted by motion
So much hate. A brilliant innovator comes along and unseats decades of automobile stagnation (we all know what special interest groups, unions, etc have done to squash innovation), and everyone wants to hate. I, for one, welcome paradigm shifts in an industry... especially one that affects all of us. Once energy production starts to shift significantly away from fossil fuels (and it will), all of you will view Musk as the genius that he is. In pretty much his first attempt, he created something far, far superior to what any other large company in history was able to produce. That fact alone is pretty amazing to me.
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Good., then you pay for the ****.
If they were a legitimate business I'd be singing their praises, instead of trying to edumacate the kool-aid drinkers high on emotional knee-jerks.
FACT: that company would not exist without tax-payer subsidies.
FACT: the only reason they have anything closely resembling profits is because the state of kalifornia gives them counttless millions in carbon credits every year that they in turn sell to other companies, and keep the $$$$$$$$.
If that isn't a scam I don't know what is.
I can't even get a straight answer as to how many millions they get per year scott free. 20? 50? 100 million? The story changes depending on what you read or who you talk to. But it's more than enough to keep building and getting more incentives.
This is not about the technology. It's about holding a gun to our heads, making all of us put money in his pocket for NOTHING!
But just keep kissing his shoes, now that steve jobs is gone people probably need another faux-hero.
I saw that steve jobs movie the other day BTW, what a POS he really was.
Never did a damn thing in his life but **** up other people's lives and take credit for other people's hard work while he treated them, like ****.
He was a genius too.