“MR. MUSK: The ideal thing to do would be to tax CO2. But taxes are difficult to implement. So, we’re doing an indirect thing, which is to subsidize electric cars to some degree, and other sort of renewables.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577297871083834362.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Electric cars are not renewable. You can use anything to make electricity, oil, diesel, coal, mice running a treadmill. Just because you don’t see the generator from which the electricity comes does not make an electric car a renewable. What a twit.
Monday January 19, 2009
10:00 elon musk: the future is green
10:01 elon musk: oh my god, sharon stone is here!
10:55 Matt Petersen: What a rush to be here tonight at the HuffPo party and be party of this amazing event. Hats off to Arianna and her inimitable, irrepressible, and unmatched vision and passion. And to Elon Musk!, and all the other sponsors...
10:56 Matt Petersen: Global Green USA is in the house...and need all of you to push for the green parts of the stimulus package...to pursue economic revitalization and environmental restoration...they're one in the same.
10:57 Matt Petersen: I'm going to the swearing in - standing tickets...looking forward to every cold moment for it is a small price to pay for the struggles of so many for so long that have brought us to this place in history...
10:58 Matt Petersen: It reminds us that history is not preordained...it is how we face each crisis...each opportunity...that defines history