Posted on 12/01/2018 8:23:44 AM PST by Kaslin
The Volt is a hybrid. It’s battery range is 53 miles. The Tesla S has a range of 249-315. In Orange County CA Teslas are becoming as common as Mercedes.
If you’re a smart capitalist you wind up being a crony. Free money and opportunities, that’s the stuff profit is made of.
It would be good, I think, to bear in mind that the word “capitalism” is a pejorative coined by the forces of evil to slander what von Hayek called “the extended order of human cooperation.” That is, how people act when they are free to choose.
Crony capitalism is a distortion of the extended order.
Where would Musk be without Govco bucks?
He’s playing by the rules our elected representatives have set down, like most of America. Blame Congress.
More power to a brilliant entrepreneur
“Musk actually did say, last year, that Tesla does not need the $7,500-per-vehicle tax credit”
Yes, he said that as the subsidies were being cut back and with shareholders worried as the subsidies are about to end completely soon. Once you’ve sold a prescribed number of units, the subsidies end and you are supposed to make it on your own.
Musk says a lot things. Sometimes they are even true. He is a misused genius and innovator. He needs to be locked in a library/lab and kept away from assignments that require talking in public.
And when I lived in the San Diego area I couldn’t make the drive to Las Vegas without being stranded in the middle of the desert. It’s a very expensive toy for rich people that is being tax subsidized. I’m sure those people in Orange County have gas powered vehicles as well and the vast majority don’t rely only on a Tesla.
There’s Supercharger stations located in Baker, Barstow and Yermo for the SoCal to Vegas drivers.
I know a couple of people whose Teslas are their daily drivers. They have owned them since 2013-2014.
I don’t know how Teslas are “expensive toys for rich people” any more than all the Lexus, Mercedes, Maseratis, Jaguars, Porsches, and BMWs that people buy out here. Those gas burners are not only expensive cars to buy, they are expensive cars to maintain. The Teslas seem to be cheap to maintain by comparison.
As smart and “visionary” he may be, he is a crony-capitalist, not a free enterprise capitalist. Minus state and federal subsidies for his over priced cars, his car business would have folded before now. Minus rhe billions in debt the state of Nevada saddled its taspayers with, his battery business in Nevada would not have happened. That only leaves the question of how much his government subsidized lines of business are subsidizing his other ventures, like SpaceX.
None of the others are subsidized by tax breaks and while there are stations in those places, you can’t just recharge the way you can fill up a gas tank in a few minutes. I have no problem if someone wants to spend money on a luxury car. I do have a problem if the government is subsidizing the company and the purchases with tax breaks.
LOL! He’s not social enough to be a crony. There are plenty of other CEOs who do fit that profile, though.
He and his colleagues are doing the design work that foreigners won’t do. ...or can’t do. We’re keeping him for now, entertainment and all. ;-)
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