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The article was written by Ross Marchand who is "the director of policy for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance." I was curious about who TPA was. According to
by drewg123 9y ago
The article was written by Ross Marchand who is "the director of policy for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance."
I was curious about who TPA was. According to http://www.energyandpolicy.org/renewable-energy-state-policy-attacks-report-2015/taxpayer-protection-alliance/ http://www.energyandpolicy.org/renewable-energy-state-policy..., "The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is an advocacy front group that is part of the Koch political network, and is largely funded by money funneled through the Koch-connected Americans for Job Security, Center to Protect Patient Rights (now called American Encore), and Freedom Partners."
So take that into account when reading the article.
- crdoconnor 9y agoI might be missing something but I'm not sure I see a direct financial interest between Koch's holdings and driverless cars. If this were a piece about global warming - yeah, 100% lies, guaranteed. This group is clearly no friend of Silicon Valley or Google (for reasons likely unrelated to driverless cars - net neutrality, global warming, etc.) but to me all that says is that this may just be an attempt to show that the emperor (Waymo) has no clothes - which to me implies that this might be an attempt at inconveniently telling the truth about driverless cars - and pricking a hype bubble Google is deeply invested in out of spite. That said, maybe driverless cars do stand to take a chunk out of Koch profits somehow. Not sure how though. Either way I'm happy people are picking up on think tank pieces more often and analysing the potential conflicts of interest behind them.