Comments on: Last Chance For a Half-Priced Tesla Ends Dec 31 http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jim http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13519 Jim Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:22:42 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13519 Susan, Surely, you are not defending this terrible use of taxpayers dollars. $42K tax credit for a sports car? I just don't see the social benefit. More like a ham handed give-away of someone else's money. Japan has a debt/GDP that is second only to Zimbabwe and their govt is still digging the hole deeper. If they don't reverse direction, they will not arrest their decline from 1st world status. Not an example of good govt. Quite frankly, the private sector is much more agile and will create new technologies much more quickly as the true market needs are uncovered. Folks, we have to conserve our financial integrity as well as our environmental integrity. Both are important. People indenture much of their lives for the money that they earn. We must reject the notion that the govt will make smarter financial decisions than we do. This story is a case in point. Susan,

Surely, you are not defending this terrible use of taxpayers dollars. $42K tax credit for a sports car? I just don’t see the social benefit. More like a ham handed give-away of someone else’s money.

Japan has a debt/GDP that is second only to Zimbabwe and their govt is still digging the hole deeper. If they don’t reverse direction, they will not arrest their decline from 1st world status. Not an example of good govt.

Quite frankly, the private sector is much more agile and will create new technologies much more quickly as the true market needs are uncovered.

Folks, we have to conserve our financial integrity as well as our environmental integrity. Both are important. People indenture much of their lives for the money that they earn. We must reject the notion that the govt will make smarter financial decisions than we do. This story is a case in point.

]]> By: Jim http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-37043 Jim Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:22:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-37043 Susan, Surely, you are not defending this terrible use of taxpayers dollars. $42K tax credit for a sports car? I just don't see the social benefit. More like a ham handed give-away of someone else's money. Japan has a debt/GDP that is second only to Zimbabwe and their govt is still digging the hole deeper. If they don't reverse direction, they will not arrest their decline from 1st world status. Not an example of good govt. Quite frankly, the private sector is much more agile and will create new technologies much more quickly as the true market needs are uncovered. Folks, we have to conserve our financial integrity as well as our environmental integrity. Both are important. People indenture much of their lives for the money that they earn. We must reject the notion that the govt will make smarter financial decisions than we do. This story is a case in point. Susan,

Surely, you are not defending this terrible use of taxpayers dollars. $42K tax credit for a sports car? I just don’t see the social benefit. More like a ham handed give-away of someone else’s money.

Japan has a debt/GDP that is second only to Zimbabwe and their govt is still digging the hole deeper. If they don’t reverse direction, they will not arrest their decline from 1st world status. Not an example of good govt.

Quite frankly, the private sector is much more agile and will create new technologies much more quickly as the true market needs are uncovered.

Folks, we have to conserve our financial integrity as well as our environmental integrity. Both are important. People indenture much of their lives for the money that they earn. We must reject the notion that the govt will make smarter financial decisions than we do. This story is a case in point.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13518 Susan Kraemer Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:50:04 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13518 But Jim, "Activist government" is gonna happen anyway. Either 1. we get out in front to support radical innovation like electric car development, (like the Japanese govt did with the Prius) and create a new industry, help our economy 2. or we have to clean up the mess afterwards (as we had to do with Detroit companies like GM and Chrysler)because they get so far behind the curve they take out half the economy with them. But Jim,

“Activist government” is gonna happen anyway.

Either

1. we get out in front to support radical innovation like electric car development, (like the Japanese govt did with the Prius) and create a new industry, help our economy

2. or we have to clean up the mess afterwards (as we had to do with Detroit companies like GM and Chrysler)because they get so far behind the curve they take out half the economy with them.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-37042 Susan Kraemer Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:50:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-37042 But Jim, "Activist government" is gonna happen anyway. Either 1. we get out in front to support radical innovation like electric car development, (like the Japanese govt did with the Prius) and create a new industry, help our economy 2. or we have to clean up the mess afterwards (as we had to do with Detroit companies like GM and Chrysler)because they get so far behind the curve they take out half the economy with them. But Jim,

“Activist government” is gonna happen anyway.

Either

1. we get out in front to support radical innovation like electric car development, (like the Japanese govt did with the Prius) and create a new industry, help our economy

2. or we have to clean up the mess afterwards (as we had to do with Detroit companies like GM and Chrysler)because they get so far behind the curve they take out half the economy with them.

]]> By: Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13517 Nick Chambers Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:43:41 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13517 Rex, Please note that the post says a smart4two Chinese knockoff. Perhaps there is a language barrier or something, but the car referenced in the link is indeed a smart car knockoff made in China. Susan is clearly not saying the smart4two is a Chinese car. Rex,

Please note that the post says a smart4two Chinese knockoff. Perhaps there is a language barrier or something, but the car referenced in the link is indeed a smart car knockoff made in China. Susan is clearly not saying the smart4two is a Chinese car.

]]> By: Rex http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13516 Rex Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:59:03 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13516 Please note that the Smart is NOT a Chinese car. It's a German car built by Daimler with electric powertrain components by Tesla Motors. You should really correct this significant error of fact. Please note that the Smart is NOT a Chinese car. It’s a German car built by Daimler with electric powertrain components by Tesla Motors. You should really correct this significant error of fact.

]]> By: Rex http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-37041 Rex Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:59:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-37041 Please note that the Smart is NOT a Chinese car. It's a German car built by Daimler with electric powertrain components by Tesla Motors. You should really correct this significant error of fact. Please note that the Smart is NOT a Chinese car. It’s a German car built by Daimler with electric powertrain components by Tesla Motors. You should really correct this significant error of fact.

]]> By: Jim http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13515 Jim Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:29:45 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13515 You don't have to live in Colorado to share in this great opportunity. As a taxpayer, you get to pay for half and some other guy gets to drive it. You can thank your activist government for making this dream a reality. Perhaps you can ask the guy who owns the Tesla if you can polish the fenders. He probably won't let you near it, though. To paraphrase Pogo: 'We have met the government and it is us'. You don’t have to live in Colorado to share in this great opportunity. As a taxpayer, you get to pay for half and some other guy gets to drive it.

You can thank your activist government for making this dream a reality. Perhaps you can ask the guy who owns the Tesla if you can polish the fenders. He probably won’t let you near it, though.

To paraphrase Pogo: ‘We have met the government and it is us’.

]]> By: Jim http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-37040 Jim Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:29:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-37040 You don't have to live in Colorado to share in this great opportunity. As a taxpayer, you get to pay for half and some other guy gets to drive it. You can thank your activist government for making this dream a reality. Perhaps you can ask the guy who owns the Tesla if you can polish the fenders. He probably won't let you near it, though. To paraphrase Pogo: 'We have met the government and it is us'. You don’t have to live in Colorado to share in this great opportunity. As a taxpayer, you get to pay for half and some other guy gets to drive it.

You can thank your activist government for making this dream a reality. Perhaps you can ask the guy who owns the Tesla if you can polish the fenders. He probably won’t let you near it, though.

To paraphrase Pogo: ‘We have met the government and it is us’.

]]> By: Steve McAllister http://gas2.org/2009/12/25/last-chance-for-a-half-priced-tesla-ends-dec-31/#comment-13514 Steve McAllister Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:31:33 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=4358#comment-13514 I wish I lived in Colorado again... and that I had fifty thousand dollars. I wish I lived in Colorado again… and that I had fifty thousand dollars.

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