echoes thru my cranial cavity..
I have a feeeeling he's a Beatles fan..
Comments, anyone?
In the words of that old ball player..
Big Gubamint been berry berry good to me.
/johnny
Compare the grant amounts to political donations and where they go, to have a better context for this money-go-round.
SpaceX got it’s start because the Russians tried to rip off Musk when he tried to buy rockets from them. Subsidies had nothing to do with it.
Also, the cost of a SpaceX launch is much less than its competitors, and will probably go even lower in the future. The competitors are already being forced to be more efficient. So I’d say the issue of subsidies is minor in that market.
If all goes according to plan, Tesla will bring down the price of an electric car to the point that subsidies or tax breaks won’t be necessary.
While subsidies are an issue, they don’t deserve to be the main focus when it comes to SpaceX or Tesla.
Having recently bought a home in southern CT, we figured we'd check out solar panels as a way to not be so dependent on the grid. Also, we wanted to explore storing this energy in batteries so that we could perhaps become 100% off the grid with regard to electricity.
So we had Solar City do the site inspection for us and they determined that due to the fact that most of our roof is east/west facing (as opposed to the more desirable south-facing roof), we would only be able to supply 42% of our electrical needs with solar panels.
So we said no dice. However, for months, the Solar City people kept calling with high-pressure tactics to get us to change our minds. While it did not make economical sense for us, it evidently did make sense for Solar City as they were getting government subsidies for every installation they did.
Finally I flat out asked them whether it would make sense for them to install these panels if the government subsidies went away and they had to admit that this was the case.
But, but Democrats / Liberals are so against corporate welfare!!
ELECTRIC CARS ARE A GUBMINT / TREE HUGGER FOLLY / CRONY KICKBACK NIRVANA
musks cars will never repalce the internal combustion engine cars becuse they are a joke that the average person can not economically benefit from..... heard of cheap gas ??? the world is awash in oil....
IT TAKE A HEAVY HANDED GUVMINT HEADED BY A SHITFOR BRAINS commie muslim TRAITOR to support this crap...
Okay, here's an idea, get the U.S. government out of the venture capital business.
Sheesh.
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Corporatism, not Socialism is the increasing threat.
The Patriot Act became the Freedom Act. What is lost on many is that as the Patriot Act, it is Socialism. As the Freedom Act it is Corporatism...more power to the Oligarchs who will now control the “meta-data”.
He gets billions from 0Obama (our $$) then gives millions to dear leader’s coffers. Laundering pure and simple...graft.