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> There's no reason someone shelling out $100,000 for a car should get a $20,000 rebate from the government. The fact he's single handedly building out a natio
by lj3 10y ago
> There's no reason someone shelling out $100,000 for a car should get a $20,000 rebate from the government.
The fact he's single handedly building out a nation-wide electric car charging infrastructure counts for nothing?
- rahrahrah 10y agoHold on. Who elected him entrepreneur-in-chief? If he manages to pull that off, he will have a large stake on a successful company. Let him play by the same rules as everyone else.
- lj3 10y ago> Who elected him entrepreneur-in-chief? Nobody. > Let him play by the same rules as everyone else. He is. The building of publicly accessible next-gen infrastructure should be rewarded, especially when the government isn't willing to do it. > If he manages to pull that off, he will have a large stake on a successful company. That's the point. He's also taking the risk that he's sinking millions (billions?) of dollars into an infrastructure that might go the way of the betamax.
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- norikki 10y agoCorrect. If the federal government wants to build or subsidize an electric charging network then it should build or subsidize an electric charging network, not luxury cars.
- lj3 10y agoWhat's the point of subsidizing a charging network if nobody can afford the cars that use it? Tesla isn't the only company being subsidized for building electric cars. I swear, it's like some people around here have no concept of history or economics. How do you think the oil, electricity, telephone and data infrastructures of this country was built, anyway?