Posted on 09/04/2014 8:38:10 AM PDT by jazusamo
Its only not profitable because he’s putting almost all profit into research/development and expansion. Don’t think short term, think long term
-Consumer Reports, 8/2014
Unless they can create a battery that can be fully recharged in the time it takes to fill a gas tank, it’s not going anywhere.
The Tesla is a very expensive battery operated toy.
Follow the money to a Hairy Reed.
SENATOR GEARY
Alright, Corleone. I'm going to be very frank with you. Maybe more frank than any man in my position has ever spoken to you before.
Michael nods, indicating that he should do so.
SENATOR GEARY
The Corleone family controls two major hotels in Vegas; one in Reno. The licenses were grandfathered in, so you had no difficulties with the Gaming Commission. But I have the idea from sources... (takes the water from Neri and swallows his pills) ...that you're planning to move in on the Tropicana. In another week or so you'll move Klingman out, which leaves you with only one technicality. The license, which is now in Klingman's name.
MICHAEL
Turnbull is a good man.
SENATOR GEARY
Let's forget the bull$hit, I don't want to stay here any longer than I have to. You can have the license for two hundred and fifty thousand in cash, plus a monthly fee equal to five percent of the gross...
Michael is taken aback; he looks at Hagen.
SENATOR GEARY
...of all three Corleone hotels.
Hagen is frustrated; all his information was wrong.
MICHAEL
Senator Geary, I speak to you as a businessman who has made a large investment in your state. I have made that state my home; plan to raise my children here. The license fee from the Gambling Commission costs one thousand dollars; why would I ever consider paying more?
SENATOR GEARY
I'm going to squeeze you, Corleone, because I don't like you; I don't like the kind of man you are. I despise your masquerade, and the dishonest way you pose yourself and your fu*king family.
LOL! Great scene which Geary came to regret.
Godfather I & II are both in my top 5 movies of all time. Every time I see Dirty Harry Reid I think of this scene
Apple, who is "next door", has expressed its desire to expand solar, so they and Tesla could cooperate on building additional capacity nearby.
” and still have almost nothing to show for it.”
They only have the #1 best selling luxury sedan in the US ...
Tesla sucks and I doubt they will ever mass produce anything, apart from direct government intervention or compulsion.
How much grant money is involved?
The new business model is not return on investment, but grant acquisition. The management team doesn’t need to make money, they only need to milk the grant.
Right off the bat this is $500Mil in incentives, it’s anyones guess how much more down the road.
I wonder what big politician in D.C. are they in bed with.
Musk is a con artist. He’s going to build exactly as many five billion dollar battery plants as the number of “battery swapping” stations he built for public usage.
See how lowering taxes for preferred businesses bring them to certain states. These same people will not give similar tax cuts to the rest of the economy and cry when businesses flee the country.
Pray America wakes up
Musk: Thank Harry and Rory Reid for all their hard “work.”
5.56mm
His “battery swapping” stations were definitely a scam and I think your right on the rest.
“Tesla sucks and I doubt they will ever mass produce anything, apart from direct government intervention or compulsion. “
Tesla is the only car company to have fully repaid its government loans.
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