I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but Trump is friends with the oil & gas industry, Tesla and the gigafactories are a direct threat to that industry, and

I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but Trump is friends with the oil & gas industry, Tesla and the gigafactories are a direct threat to that industry, and GS is embedded deeply in this administration. Tesla is doing what we as a world should be promoting, that is to stop pushing oil & gas exploration and pushing sustainable energies. There is an energy war. Tesla is doing better than anyone expected from a science perspective. There is a lot of money at stake in oil, gas, coal, and electricity (in its current form). I expect this administration to drop the EC subsidies at some point, but retain the O&G exploration subsidies. The Koch brothers are probably somewhere in this mix as well.