> However, Tesla vehicles got a $7,500 effective price hike just one week ago, when the federal US EV tax credit was taken away by republicans. Incidentally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent $200 million in political bribes to help make that happen, thus increasing the price of his company’s vehicles, and in fact making the “more affordable” Model Y actually less affordable than it was just last week.
A guy who makes EVs spending $200 million to help elect the party that doesn’t believe in global warming can be called many things, but a “bribe” isn’t one of them, lol. He was acting directly contrary to his self interest.
The purpose was to get in a position to gut institutions that were investing his financial and other shenanigans in order to make them disappear.
I believe he succeeded in that.
It was a bribe. And it wasn't against his interests at the time. After all, the GOP has believed many things and immediately believed the opposite as soon as the Orange Man said something.
Musk just wasn't expecting to start a feud with the guy he put into office with that $200 million. Up until that point though, he was getting literally everything he wanted out of the bribe.
Electrek is basically now an anti-tesla tabloid
Reporting news makes one anti Tesla? Do you prefer news sources that just repeat press releases.
Electrek was super pro Tesla until its founders personally realized they got duped into performing free publicity for Musk.
Electrek chief editor naively thought he would actually get $500K in Tesla supercars from referral program https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/tesla-roadster-free-killed-re...
> However, Tesla vehicles got a $7,500 effective price hike just one week ago, when the federal US EV tax credit was taken away by republicans. Incidentally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent $200 million in political bribes to help make that happen, thus increasing the price of his company’s vehicles, and in fact making the “more affordable” Model Y actually less affordable than it was just last week.
A guy who makes EVs spending $200 million to help elect the party that doesn’t believe in global warming can be called many things, but a “bribe” isn’t one of them, lol. He was acting directly contrary to his self interest.
The purpose was to get in a position to gut institutions that were investing his financial and other shenanigans in order to make them disappear. I believe he succeeded in that.
I assume you think the $1.5 billion Kamala Harris spent was out of the goodness of people's hearts?
A candidate spending money on campaign ads is a very different thing from a rich guy literally offering money to voters to vote for his candidate.
A lawyer should know that...
It was a bribe. And it wasn't against his interests at the time. After all, the GOP has believed many things and immediately believed the opposite as soon as the Orange Man said something.
Musk just wasn't expecting to start a feud with the guy he put into office with that $200 million. Up until that point though, he was getting literally everything he wanted out of the bribe.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507759