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Elon Musk Threatens to Quit Advisory Panel if Donald Trump Cuts Energy Taxes, Subsidies
Breitbart.com ^ | 31 May 2017 | Neil Munro

Posted on 06/01/2017 5:49:35 AM PDT by Rockitz

Elon Musk is threatening to resign from President Donald Trump’s business advisory panel if he extracts Americans from the Paris Climate Agreement which indirectly subsidizes Musk’s multiple billion-dollar business projects.

The Wednesday threat came after news reports announced that Trump has decided to quit the 2016 agreement, which critics say would increase energy costs for U.S. consumers, factories and workplaces.

The threat was delivered via a pair of tweets from the entrepreneur, who has skillfully harnessed a variety of federal regulations to subsidize his Tesla electric-car company, his SolarCity energy company, and a Nevada battery factory.

Trump is under huge pressure from his supporters and many business groups to quit President Barack Obama’s Paris deal, which has not been sent to the Senate for approval. When shaking hands on the deal, Obama promised the United States would reduce “global warming” by cutting U.S. emission of “greenhouses gases” by one-quarter by 2025, chiefly by taxing natural fuels and subsidizing new solar energy.

Trump’s decision to quit the Paris deal would help many U.S. manufacturing industries by reducing the cost of energy from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. That cheaper energy would be a big gain for the hard-pressed manufacturing communities in the midwestern states whose voters carried Trump over the Democrats’ “Blue Wall” November 8, 2016.

But if Trump pulls out of the Paris deal, it will damage the political support and government subsidies given by Democrats to the new low-carbon industries concentrated in the Democratic-voting West and Southwest...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; musk; parisclimate; spacex; tesla
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To: Rockitz

Time to short Tesla...


21 posted on 06/01/2017 6:10:42 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Rockitz

This is like celebrities threatening to move if we do something that angers them.
“I’m really important! If you vex me, I shall deny you the joy of my company!” *Stops foot*


22 posted on 06/01/2017 6:17:20 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: sappy

Hopefully we will quit paying for this welfare queen’s toys.


23 posted on 06/01/2017 6:17:27 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Rockitz

Multinational Banks and Corporations Trigger Immediate Angst Over Trump Withdrawal From Paris Treaty…

Posted on  by 


Every word we read, every corporate broadcast, every espoused punditry opinion, every angle that’s visible, everything surrounding the Paris Climate “Treaty”, All.Of.It., is driven by multinational banks and corporations who have a vested financial interest.

The Paris Climate Treaty has nothing to do with “climate” and everything possible to do with economics, globalism and the controlled redistribution of economic wealth as constructed through decades of advanced policies of multinational financial interests.

There are factually TRILLIONS of dollars at stake.

When you consider the pontificating pearl-clutching from the financial and industrial elites, ask yourself this very basic question:

If Elon Musk (Tesla), Tim Cook (Apple), Larry Page (google), Mark Zuckerberg (facebook), or any of the myriad of multinational executives really cared about “climate change”, then why are they doing business in China?


 

Read more @ The Last Refuge 


24 posted on 06/01/2017 6:18:46 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Rockitz

MYTH BREAKERS

Making petty threats to President Trump always
work out well for the one making the threat.


25 posted on 06/01/2017 6:21:55 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: Rockitz
musk

n. A greasy secretion with a powerful odor, produced in a glandular sac beneath the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes

26 posted on 06/01/2017 6:23:04 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rockitz

I’m sure President Trump would cordially bid farewell to Elon and keep his campaign promise. My concern is Ivanka’s influence in the matter.


27 posted on 06/01/2017 6:28:16 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Rockitz

Where’s the Curly Bill ‘Bye’ Gif? This thread needs it.


28 posted on 06/01/2017 6:45:57 AM PDT by Beagle8U (United for flying 1,000 miles for a camel (toe).)
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29 posted on 06/01/2017 6:50:20 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Beagle8U

I thought Curly Bill would show up in the first 3 posts . Does the spirit of Powers Booth still live on ???


30 posted on 06/01/2017 6:51:17 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: Rockitz

31 posted on 06/01/2017 6:51:40 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Rockitz

If Mr. Musk believes the global warming fantasy, he’s not nearly as intelligent as most people give him credit for.

...

I think he’s very smart when it comes to business and engineering, and I’m a fan of many of his accomplishments, but he’s made it clear that he supports the climate scam 100%. Perhaps it’s due to a conflict of interest that clouds his judgement on the issue.


32 posted on 06/01/2017 6:52:06 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Rockitz

You must be kidding me. A guy that makes and sells electric automobiles supports the global warming scam.


33 posted on 06/01/2017 7:01:29 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

There ya go.


34 posted on 06/01/2017 7:03:03 AM PDT by Beagle8U (United for flying 1,000 miles for a camel (toe).)
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To: Lionheartusa1

I know. Trump should start tweeting Curly Bill gif.


35 posted on 06/01/2017 7:05:12 AM PDT by Beagle8U (United for flying 1,000 miles for a camel (toe).)
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To: Rockitz

Musk and his businesses won’t survive without government subsidies.


36 posted on 06/01/2017 7:15:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rockitz

I just drove 4,000 miles to CA and back.....never saw a single Tesla. Guess they don’t venture out on the open road much.


37 posted on 06/01/2017 7:50:22 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: Rockitz
Elon Musk is threatening to resign from President Donald Trump’s business advisory panel if he extracts Americans from the Paris Climate Agreement which indirectly subsidizes Musk’s multiple billion-dollar business projects.

Buh-bye! Bugger off, ya commie bastid!

38 posted on 06/01/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Especially if you marry crazy women with a history of taking men to the cleaners.

The world is full of pretty blonde women with large breasts. What’s the draw of one who is sure to be a disaster? Is it the roller-coaster thrill of waiting for the sudden but inevitable catastrophe?


39 posted on 06/01/2017 8:22:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is no catastrophe from which someone does not benefit." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Rockitz; P-Marlowe; Jim Robinson

So Musk is upset if they take away his free money.

And here we’d been fed a myth that he was some great entrepreneur.


40 posted on 06/01/2017 8:38:45 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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