In tonight's debate (10/22/23) Romney said the Government investing in Tesla, amongst a few other companies, is not a good way to create American jobs. Is he anti-Tesla? And should we worry about losing the EV tax credit for 2013 and beyond if he is elected? I am not trying to flame or campaign, just trying to get a clear understanding on what a Romney administration might mean to Tesla.
@Sudre
You must be really old if you can remember prohibition.
But seriously, if you define "dependent"as broadly as you are in your post, then everyone and everything is dependent on govt.
Romney is against Tesla. After years of getting his pockets greased by big oil, he has no like for an Electric car that is a game-changer and eleminates a huge portion of his back room income.
Oh no! Another lefty conspiracy theory for mrs phaget to ridicule without providing evidence to the contrary
It's Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors in 2010 all over again.
Tesla is way worse receiving riddance than Chrysler, Ford, and GM. Tesla has a lot of potential, don't do a bad thing like that to a potent company.
Let's just hope he doesn't do that, or doesn't become president. Remember watching "L.A. to Vegas in One Charge? Tesla Model S Road Trip! - Wide Open Throttle Episode 31", Frank Marcus said that the fortune cookie said, "If your desires are not extravagant it will be granted" getting rid of a company that makes cars that go on the web, that can be updated, that doesn't use a key to start nor a button, a sedan with 7-seats, and a car that get's to 60 in 4.4 seconds while weighing more than 4,600 pounds is more than extravagant.
@Brant
"mrs phaget"? Maybe you need sensitivity training. Do you have an irrational fear of gay people that leads you to want to ridicule them?
And counter-evidence is not needed to ridicule wacky conspiracy theories as far as I'm concerned, since they are themselves based on tenuous evidence at best. That goes for right- or left-wing types, by the way.
Tesla is more or less 'safe', since it has a contract and is meeting the milestones and check points, maybe even surpassing them. That says nothing about the purchase incentives, of course.
As Elon has often said, stripping away all supports and environmental considerations, the Model S is/must be a good enough value and product to not just make it, but make a game-changing and brain-changing impression on the market.
People are going to buy hundreds of thousands and millions of Tesla products because they're better.
Here's Bloomberg's coverage of the issue:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-16/obama-s-5-billion-slow-to-charg...
Interesting! For those who deny that Romney is Anti-Tesla, the article suggests that “the earnings move is the result of Romney's attacks.”
I am not sure how Tesla could dodge further attacks with this move.
Tam
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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/10/tesla-pushes-up-earnings...
SMARTING FROM ROMNEY ATTACKS, TESLA PUSHES UP EARNINGS
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal by Cromwell Schubarth, Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
Date: Monday, October 29, 2012, 11:46am PDT - Last Modified: Monday, October 29, 2012, 1:40pm PDT
Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved up his company's earnings report to the beginning of the day on Nov. 5 instead of the end of the day. The company said the move is being made due to the U.S. election the next day.
Tesla Motors, which has been the focus of presidential politics in recent weeks, rescheduled its earnings announcement on Monday to give it a full news cycle before U.S. voting begins on Nov. 6.
Instead of reporting results and hosting a Q&A session with analysts after markets close on Nov. 5, the Palo Alto electric car company will now post before the market opens that day.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney has lumped Tesla in with Fremont's failed solar power company Solyndra in attacks on Pres. Barack Obama's alternative energy strategy.
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has objected to those attacks, saying his company got a low interest loan guarantee from the government that it is on schedule to repay early.
Tesla spokesman Jeff Evanson acknowledged that the earnings move is the result of Romney's attacks, but added, "There isn't any news that will be relevant to the election in the earnings announcement."
He said that pushing the earnings up to the beginning of the day from the end was as much distance from the start of voting as the company could manage.
Analysts project that Tesla will post an increased loss of 90 cents a share for the quarter that ended Sept. 30, compared to a loss of 55 cents a share a year ago. That is attributed to its continued shift away from selling its original Roadsters to selling a new line of electric sedans that it is assembling in a the former New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont that was once operated by Toyota and General Motors.
Revenue is expected to be down to $47.5 million from $57.7 million a year ago.
That cartoon is really retarded.
Global warming stopped long ago (late 20th century).
Fossil fuel and CO2 had nothing to do with it.
Such warming as there has been has been a gentle and benign 0.6°C/century rebound from the low point of the Little Ice Age (to which you do NOT want to return, believe me!)
Pray that warming resumes. The alternative will be miserable and expensive.
evanstumpges, don't even try. A long discussion will entail that entirely hijacks this thread and will not get anybody anywhere. I warned you.
If you have more than 1 child, you are the cause of global warming.
Let's just get back to deciding whether the earth is flat.
@Volker +1
...And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
May the LDS lord help us if he gets into office.
http://www.torquenews.com/1079/romney-reiterates-no-loans-electric-vehic...
Ignorance may be bliss but some people are just misguided.
Ignorance is bliss to one being ignorant, to everybody else that is major pain in the *ss.
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