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Tesla received fraction of the subsidies the Big 3 and oil industry have received
- czottmann 10y agoI wonder why that smear campaign is happening now. Is there something obvious I'm missing, like Tesla being too successful or something?
- throwaway729 10y agoFrom the article: Musk suggested that the report, which was grossly misleading on some of the subsidies as explained in our breakdown, could have been planted to counter the IMF study that found that the fossil fuel industry was receiving the equivalent of ~$5 trillion in subsidies per year.
- caminante 10y agoI wonder why that smear campaign is happening now. Criticism of TSLA's use of subsidies isn't new[0]. [0] http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/06/03/teslas-success-is-the-result-of-political-favoritism http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/20...
- caminante 10y agoI haven't been impressed with either of the two electrek.co articles on HN recently. This one and another 15 days ago [0]. In this, the author's all over the place. He undermines his own argument by showing XOM gets $0.4B in subsidies v. TSLA's $2.4B. But he doesn't compare XOM directly with TSLA's figures. Instead, he compares XOM to SCTY ($1.1B) -- which has MORE subsidies than XOM!!! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12919693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12919693