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Originally Posted by Locke
I'm with you on Musk being so full of #### his eyes are brown, but again, hes putting other people's money where his mouth is.
People think Teslas are outrageously expensive now? They only get made because of massive Government grants, funding and tax breaks.
Musk gets to live High on the Green Hog because of his massive spin machine.
If Tesla was playing on anything even remotely resembling a level playing field nobody would be able to afford them and it wouldnt matter because even he wouldnt be able to afford to make them.
Once again, 'Green Energy' is all well and good but its still preposterously expensive and insufficient and even still the Tesla model only works by completely ignoring the downstream requirements of everything else.
They still use batteries, paint and require tires. They arent magic.
Its a step in the right direction, but its a far more minor step than people tend to believe.
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You can't really argue 100% clean because of the earth metals that are being mined, or the manufacturing process itself.
A lot of the products that are incorporated in cars come from high polllution and his carbon manufacturing. If we're going to look at down stream effects, the argument is that you have to look at up stream manufacturing and materials as well.
There will never be any such thing as 100% clean.