[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Sounds like NC just wants Tesla to be regulated by the DMV like all other dealers. What’s wrong with that? [/quote]
I’m not really into regulation from the govt entities. They usually just screw things up and drive the cost up of everything they get their hands on. Why do we need a middle man telling me what I can buy and what Tesla can sell?[/quote]
Well you don’t, but apparently the people of NC are okay with it, which is why their gov has done this. If you live in NC you would vote against the officials responsible for this, move, etc…
Believe me, I’m all for less regulation, but that’s about as likely as the proverbial buck stopping with Obama, so…[/quote]
Is the Tea Party going to get involved here? I know they’re for less taxes and less governmental regulation, so it seems like this sort of issue is right up their alley. This isn’t happening only in NC. There are several other states with similar measures in place. Is the Tea Party going to go after the way these states do business? Or do they just go after the ones with primarily Democratic govts?
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I have no idea, I’m not affiliated the the Tea Party. [/quote]
I would imagine the Tea Party is busy finding more tokens, oops I mean window dressing, to appease the racists. And after that, they’ll be too busy going to prayer meetings and KKK rallies with Clinton.
If only these congressman were allowed to be aborted, we wouldn’t have to worry about this. But now they are old, and probably have guns so we should get a government agency to target them, because you know, they think differently than I do…[/quote]
Jest all you want. It simply occurred to me, given all this in the news lately about the Tea Party and 501 (c)4 groups established for “social welfare” purposes, that this sort of issue is PERFECT for what the Tea Party ostensibly stands for. It’s an issue that is right up their alley and not really a partisan one at all.
I’d love to see the Tea Party get behind this issue. I’ve been reading a lot about Tesla lately and I am convinced that this is the next great product from American automobile manufacturers. Their only real roadblock to quickly jumping into the forefront of the car industry is the fact that their batteries don’t last more than about 300 miles.
That’s another thing I don’t understand. Long-life batteries are something that hasn’t been achieved yet and we’ve basically been using the same sort of crude ones for 100 years now. Sure, they’ve miniaturized and all that, but it seems to me that the ability to store massive amounts of energy for significantly longer time than what is now possible would drastically reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Why doesn’t the govt spend money on this? Why is it putting billions of dollars into developing technology that makes it easier to kill people instead of developing technology like electric car batteries that will last thousands of miles? Perhaps that’s another “social welfare” issue the Tea Party could head up.
After all, the less dependent we become on foreign oil, the more readily available superior products like the Tesla are directly available to consumers and the more successful that an American auto manufacturer becomes, the better it is for all Americans.