> This is the first I’m hearing of the anti-Tesla sentiment actually being an oil industry psyop. It’s not anti-Tesla it’s anti sustainable energy. One of the

> This is the first I’m hearing of the anti-Tesla sentiment actually being an oil industry psyop. It’s not anti-Tesla it’s anti sustainable energy. One of the books Elon most frequently recommends (and I mean very frequently… if this is the first you’re hearing of it, that’s kind of a red flag that you don’t know your topic!) is Merchants of Doubt, which is about how massive corporate interests (on scales that dwarf Tesla… think big tobacco and big oil) historically have funded biased and ethically compromised research and journalism to advance their agendas (as well as, of course, lobbying, no surprise there). I don’t know if big oil and big your-dad’s-auto are doing this now, but the motivation is there, so it’s a fair bet that they are. And then there are short sellers. And then individuals who have to rationalize their purchase of a $70,000 gas Audi because nicer leather. But yeah I agree Tesla is going through obsessive fandom phases.