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1 posted on 03/30/2014 7:07:43 PM PDT by ckilmer
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Tesla received handouts from “stimulus”


2 posted on 03/30/2014 7:09:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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My crony capitalist is better than your crony capitalist.


5 posted on 03/30/2014 7:20:16 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Sounds hippy-ish to say, but yeah, I agree with him, here.

I think the Boeing contracts have been fat and the traditional launch companies are de-facto extensions of Uncle Sugar.

I don’t approve of the crazy subsidies to Tesla and I don’t believe in the long-term viability of those batteries but what he’s doing here I think is fantastic, and I wish him 100% success.

He’s our only prayer for staying well ahead of China.


6 posted on 03/30/2014 7:23:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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“Can Elon Musk suck more taxpayer money from the till? Yes he can!”


7 posted on 03/30/2014 7:29:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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Musk’s Teslas will be the future, so I commend him for beginning the project....solar powered with vastly improved batteries (lithium iirc)

That’s years away. I hope his space launch contracts provide him with sufficient capital

Musk is South African but came to the US because he saw entrepreneurs succeed here when he was a kid. He invented and sold PayPal to finance Tesla and SpaceX. I wish him well ...he could be the next Ford or Getty, Gates, or Jobs.


10 posted on 03/30/2014 7:31:57 PM PDT by chiller (NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed17303 W IH 10 San Antonio TX 78257)
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Roll that around a bit.

Jim Gass says competition doesn’t work.

And people here call Musk the socialist?


12 posted on 03/30/2014 7:44:26 PM PDT by Regulator
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I don’t understand the hatred for Elon Musk. I wish I was 1/10 as accomplished as he is.


14 posted on 03/30/2014 7:48:40 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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Musk already paid back the government loans years ahead of time. Musk is the good guy here, saving billions for tax payers


24 posted on 03/30/2014 8:44:05 PM PDT by 4rcane
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If Space X suceeds with propulsive landing and reuse of its boosters - they’re going to be able to really reduce lanuch costs.


29 posted on 03/30/2014 8:56:16 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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I’ll give odds that this doesn’t stand a chance to pass the political logjam to get through Congress.. Between Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and the unions, the lobbying and political ties will prevent it.. Too bad a $50 Billion savings isn’t small change.. :)


30 posted on 03/30/2014 8:58:11 PM PDT by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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A visit to Cape Canaveral and the Apollo control center showed me the Government was not the main facilitator of putting men on the moon. They opened their check-book, Air Force bases and provided the mission and organization, but the real success was due to the technology and brainpower in companies like Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, IBM, Sperry, etc...

Now that NASA has a typical government/bureaucratic monopoly - how likely is the USA to return men to the moon (or space, for that matter) in the next 10 years?


32 posted on 03/30/2014 9:58:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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