Nice necro.
I find it funny. The threat was opened in 2013 predicting the impending death watch of Tesla and it still hasn't happened.
I find there are many examples of why it's hard to invest on Wall Street and guess right.
There are great arguments that are wrong.
Take Tesla. "OK, you have some kid who got lucky by being involved in the startup paypal, who is rich with cash from it, after a period where dot com showed all kinds of terrible businesses created that did terribly, and that kid thinks he can just use that money to make a new car company, which hasn't happened in decades. What a joke!"
That is a pretty great argument for not investing in Tesla or for shorting it. But it was Elon Musk and he did a hell of a good job and the argument wasn't correct.
I find it funny. The thread was opened in 2013 predicting the impending death watch of Tesla and it still hasn't happened.
So the government doesn't want the country to be more efficient and competitive with other countries?I don't think Tesla is going anywhere any time soon. But if their stuff does in fact revolutionize energy usage the government might step in and change that. Their easiest bet is to just make some kind of ridiculous regulation on usage/implementation/shipping of lithium ion batteries. They can use the note 7 as a reason. The public will eat it up. "those things are so dangerous, we can't have all these cars going around with such dangerous explosive batteries!"
So the government doesn't want the country to be more efficient and competitive with other countries?
Oh.They don't want the oil industry to potentially be under any kind of threat. If they see that things might be heading that way they will do what it takes to change it.
If you thing oil industry is that loved by federal government, or has that much influence, you havent been paying attention for many years.They don't want the oil industry to potentially be under any kind of threat. If they see that things might be heading that way they will do what it takes to change it.
If you thing oil industry is that loved by federal government, or has that much influence, you havent been paying attention for many years.
You have to read between the lines, really. Oil is pretty much the main resource that governments of the world fight for and want full control of. This comes before lives. This is why the Iraq war even started, and now Syria. If the governments really wanted to end ISIS they would have done it like 10 years ago.
Any time there is an alternate energy project, it always ends up riddled with corruption and is rendered to cost more than what it should have saved. The idea here is to give public the idea that they are not viable and we should just continue using oil.
If oil industry went down, so would the government. They are pretty much tied together. Moves like denying the XL pipe line are political moves, they make sense to them at the time.
Governments also don't want people to be self sufficient. Stuff like solar allows this even more so if ever we see a new battery tech. That's why a lot of places make solar illegal, or even make it illegal to collect rain water. It's also illegal to go off grid in some places. If you are not connected to the grid your house is considered abandoned and property of the state. They'll haul your ass to jail. It's ridiculous really. Freedom is an illusion.
So government would reject a technology that reduces oil dependence and gives them an immediate advantage in this "fight?"You have to read between the lines, really. Oil is pretty much the main resource that governments of the world fight for and want full control of. This comes before lives. This is why the Iraq war even started, and now Syria. If the governments really wanted to end ISIS they would have done it like 10 years ago.
Any time there is an alternate energy project, it always ends up riddled with corruption and is rendered to cost more than what it should have saved. The idea here is to give public the idea that they are not viable and we should just continue using oil.
If oil industry went down, so would the government. They are pretty much tied together. Moves like denying the XL pipe line are political moves, they make sense to them at the time.
Governments also don't want people to be self sufficient. Stuff like solar allows this even more so if ever we see a new battery tech. That's why a lot of places make solar illegal, or even make it illegal to collect rain water. It's also illegal to go off grid in some places. If you are not connected to the grid your house is considered abandoned and property of the state. They'll haul your ass to jail. It's ridiculous really. Freedom is an illusion.
Elon Musk is crazy, narcissistic, huge risk taker, maniac, nut job, and wacked. Oh, and he's a frekin genius. They will be talking about Elon's accomplishments long after he's dead. He will be immortalized as someone who changed space travel. And how we use our cars. Maybe, if the planet is really under threat it will be Elon who saves humanity by colonizing Mars.
Remember the Wright Brothers? They were also laughed at and called many names. In the end they brought forth aviation and their names live on today. Elon will be on the same level.
Nikola Tesla was considered to be a genius as well, but he died a pauper because people more business savvy than himself capitalized on his ideas. It's kind of ironic that the company that Elon Musk founded in his honor might end up with the same fate as the big auto manufacturers figure out how to make reasonably priced electric cars and steal his market share.
So government would reject a technology that reduces oil dependence and gives them an immediate advantage in this "fight?"
Tesla just managed a symbolic but important win in its quest to make electric cars popular. Shortly after the start of trading on April 10th, Tesla's stock market cap overtook that of GM -- it was worth about $51 billion, or $1.7 billion more than its established rival.
Did they die yet?
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The end is near:
Elon Musk Has an Awkward Problem at Tesla: Employee Parking - The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/AJ4fGWj5eRgGKunZOThpUlA
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Just in case Apple News links do not work for non-iOS devices.