Tesla should stop accepting subsidies says WSJ

ecomento.com ^ | February 25, 2015 | STEVE HANLEY

[Gay State Conservative]

There's a mall near me that's fairly large,a bit "upscale" and well known in our area.I go there regularly during the winter to walk...along with other old geezers.This mall has a Tesla "dealership" past which I repeatedly walk during my many visits.In all those pass-bys I think I've seen someone in this dealership *twice*.

Just sayin...

[Insigne123]

Solar energy corp.’s same thing

[Vince Ferrer]

Musk is a very good businessman, but one of his “best” traits is that he creates a business model that takes advantage of as many tax credits as possible. No, he is not going to give them up.

[EagleUSA]

Over-priced, liberal, feel-good toys.

It ain’t gonna fly...er...roll.

[Insigne123]

Obama is for leveling the playing field

[nascarnation]

It never said a peep about the billions GM and Chrysler got after the global economic meltdown in 2008. Even though most of that money was eventually repaid, where was the Journal’s concern for the “taxpayer tap” then?

IIRC the Journal editorial page was totally against the Bush/Obama bailout of GM and Chrysler and in favor of the bondholders. I think this statement is absolutely incorrect.

[Cicero]

As the WSJ says: The governments involved set out a lovely pie of money and said, “Oh, won’t someone come and gobble up our lovely pie?”

If Musk didn't gobble it up, someone else would. He has an eye for the good things in life.

[Cold Heart]

“Government CO2 rules as a tailwind..”
If the Government CO2 fraud is exposed and stopped, these guys are going down hard.

US Government altered Peruvian temperature readings may just do it.

[nascarnation]

A lot depends on your location.

They’re nearly as common as Lexus in California.

And pretty rare here in the midwest.

[nascarnation]

Tesla stock: a slam dunk short based on common sense analysis

Betting against regime affiliates: really bad investment strategy

[jospehm20]

The money being mostly repaid is also incorrect.

[Gay State Conservative]

They’re nearly as common as Lexus in California.And pretty rare here in the Midwest.

I'm not far from Harvard...MIT...the Kennedy Compound...Martha's Vineyard.

Not California obviously but not Iowa either.

[nascarnation]

78% on GM. 88% on Chrysler
I’ll give him the benefit of the lexicon on that one

[nascarnation]

Electric cars suck bilgewater in cold weather, at least relative to range. That’s probably more of a factor. NorCal is perfect.

[cripplecreek]

He has an eye for the good things in life.

So does every other welfare bum in the country.

[Cicero]

True. But we wouldn’t have welfare bums if we didn’t have welfare.

[Pelham]

Teslas are pretty common here in SoCal.

The Tesla business model is built on generating green credits which they sell to other companies. The cars themselves are sold at a large loss.

[SierraWasp]

"NorCal is perfect.

Even more so for creating the highest value "previously owned" vehicles in the nation!!!

[Rodamala]

Good luck with that... Tesla feels entitled to these subsidies. It’s like asking a hog not to root up and eat all the acorns the squirrels buried in the timberlot.