Consider me intrigued, Mr. Musk
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Yes, and I remember Solyndra. What's the point? GM is being subsidized to make EVs, and I am not good with that either. You seem to be insensible to the issue that the government is steering us into them by economic carrots and sticks, which has nothing to do with their merits.
I don't approve of subsidies for anything, so don't waste your time trying to use the "everybody does it" excuse. You think EVs are so great, you buy one and live with it. Don't force them down our throats. You also get to figure out where all the needed extra electric power comes from.
Lol ok bro.
You tried to say I was cool with child slavery but I can't say you're ok with subsidies ? (the giant bailouts that had nothing to do with EVs)
Tesla builds there batteries in Fremont California and soon in Texas but please keep swallowing that Big Oil load. Trump was in charge for four years already and we never stopped buying oil from foreign countries and we never will.
I'm not okay with subsidies and I said so. If you can't read, that is your misfortune. When Trump was in, we were a net exporter. The only reason any foreign oil was bought then was due to market mismatch among demand, availability of crude, and refining capacity. You are not opposed to coal, oil, or natural gas providing the electricity for your EVs, so your disparagement is hypocritical.
Can you set up a refinery in your backyard? I can and have set up a working solar array on my roof.
Let's talk energy independence and see who wins
When someone is getting there ass kicked in an argument they often try to put words in others mouths. It's called strawman fallacy. You have no idea what I'm opposed to other than paying foreign countries for oil.... Which will always have to do.
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I can't set up a refinery in my back yard, nor can I set up a solar cell factory (complete with poisonous chemicals). I can have a producing wellhead in my back yard (I've seen them in California), and it works at night and during cloudy weather. Your rooftop solar array will produce pipsqueak power. My children in Zambia need to rely on solar power to get them through the "load shedding," but they are finding their system needs to be replaced or augmented, and this is after several years of use. Africa, by the way, has plenty of sunlight, but they are still very limited in what they can do with what they can get.
We didn't need to buy foreign oil at the outset, and it is possible (proof by having done it) that we can be better than self-sufficient.
Kick away. And while you are at it, let's get rid of the subsidies.