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With $42,000 tax credit ending, Tesla reports strong Boulder sales
Camera ^ | 12/29/2009 | Laura Snider

Posted on 12/30/2009 10:06:32 AM PST by george76

Electric carmaker plans to keep gallery in Boulder.

Nate Hukill was not in the market for a new car -- he said Tuesday he's not even really a "car person." But on his way back from lunch ...

Now Hukill's owned his high-performance, all-electric, thunder-gray Tesla Roadster for three weeks. ... which has a $100,000 price tag.

But it was the $42,000 tax credit offered by the state of Colorado that really sealed the deal.

Embarrassingly, the tax incentive was so shocking...

Within 30 seconds, he was hooked.

The incredibly liberal tax incentive...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: boulder; taxes; tesla
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To: a fool in paradise

Rocky Mountain SIGH......................


21 posted on 12/30/2009 11:09:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The MSM really likes to write puff pieces about guys who buy $100,000 on an impulse while going out to lunch.

I guess he's the guy who "didn't stay on the line" from that investment commercial..................

22 posted on 12/30/2009 11:11:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: george76
Boulder is the San Francisco of Colorado, only with more dope and more hippies. Home of Ward Churchill.
23 posted on 12/30/2009 11:13:48 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: jwalsh07

Then you already know. It’s just gotten more bizzare.


24 posted on 12/30/2009 11:18:23 AM PST by greatplains
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To: george76

The truth about subsidizing “clean cars” is that all it does is give cash to rich people (the only ones buying hybrids & electrics are the rich) to buy status symbols that dump their pollution in the laps of the rabble (electricity produces air pollution, just not in Boulder or San Francisco... and the rare earth metals used to make these things require extremely dirty mining in poor parts of the world.

It’s typical Boulder all-liberal, all-rich, all-hypocrisy, all-white “diversity” and “caring.”

Driving an alternate energy status symbol - so the pollution can be sent to the lungs of poor brown children instead of their designer-bred lap-dogs.


25 posted on 12/30/2009 11:27:28 AM PST by sanchmo
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To: george76
um... what is preventing someone from buying one of these with the tax credit and then immediately turning around and selling it for a $40,000+ profit?
26 posted on 12/30/2009 11:55:39 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: max americana

“And those 6 people escaped from the mental asylum and the one giving a car a hug needs to be locked up again in the looney bin.”

Put a fence around the entire city of Boulder and don’t ever let anyone out!!!


27 posted on 12/30/2009 12:00:33 PM PST by dalereed
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To: george76
Aw, come on, doesn't this make you want one?


28 posted on 12/30/2009 12:06:30 PM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: savedbygrace

bttt


29 posted on 12/30/2009 12:07:35 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: george76
Maybe this will make you want one: >P?
30 posted on 12/30/2009 12:08:29 PM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: dalereed
Put a fence around the entire city of Boulder and don’t ever let anyone out!!!

Boulder has been described as 25 square miles surrounded by reality.

31 posted on 12/30/2009 12:17:15 PM PST by doc11355
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To: savedbygrace

Nice car. Put a 350hp V-8 in it and I might buy one.


32 posted on 12/30/2009 4:13:24 PM PST by Chewbacca (My gun has killed less people than Vice Pres Biden's motorcade.)
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To: greatplains

>>Ever been to Boulder??

Yep

Recommend take off and nuke entire site from orbit - only way to be sure.


33 posted on 12/30/2009 5:32:50 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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