Elon Musk figured out a surefire way for Tesla to make money: have the government subsidize its cars and penalize everyone else’s. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Tesla didn’t so much pioneer the modern electric car as it did the modern electric car grift.
It works like this:
The people who constitute the federal government decided to use the power of the federal government to sluice money taken by the federal government from what are styled “taxpayers” – as if they had a choice as to whether to pay these “taxes” – to an industry that the people who constitute the federal government have decided to favor, via finance – using other people’s money.
In this case, the industry was Tesla – the only company that was in the business (so-called) of making electric cars when this business began about fifteen years ago. No one else was in this business because there wasn’t any money in it.
But that was before the people who constitute the government began to redistribute money, to this business.
First, though, it was necessary to lay the groundwork for it. It was asserted that it was necessary to promote EVs because they did not “emit” carbon dioxide and so were characterized by the people who constitute the government as “zero emissions” vehicles. This was marketed as being a salve for a “crisis” the people who constitute the government – and its attendant lampreys in the “media” – claimed would otherwise befall us all.
