[John Valentine]

What I do have a problem with, however, is their taking a $465 Million Dollar loan from the US Department of Energy to do that, regardless of whether they are going to pay it off early.

UPDATE: The loan is ALREADY paid off.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/22/autos/tesla-loan-repayment/

[Gaffer]

Is that supposed to make me feel better? They, government took $465 Billion out of service (if they even had it in the first place - likely borrowed it like all the other BS giveaways, and piled more debt on the debt pile).

Where do you think that ‘repayment’ went? It sure as hell didn’t go back into the “we gotta save this for the mortgage” pile. It went right back into cheese doodles for the SNAP recipients of some such other bullshit...more debt.