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In response to an article I wrote final week, a reader identified that the US Division of Power Mortgage Applications Workplace has stopped offering any loans from the mortgage program that when helped Tesla via a really powerful time. “Presumably, the DOE will probably be concentrating extra on its main mission to construct and keep nuclear weapons and never get distracted by this inexperienced stuff,” the reader wrote.
It’s an ideal level, and we’ve uncared for to put in writing a lot about it. Earlier this 12 months, the Trump administration paused any disbursements from the mortgage program, and it’s reportedly trying to rework this system to help fossil gasoline industries. This program has been used extensively for supporting early-stage cleantech firms, together with Tesla again at a important time in its growth. It’s questionable if Tesla would have survived and ever produced mass-market electrical automobiles if it wasn’t for the $465 million mortgage the corporate acquired again in January 2010.
This remark adopted my article about Donald Trump eager to kill the California Clear Air Act waiver that permits the state to require greater common gasoline economic system for automobiles offered within the state.
One other commenter was a bit extra expansive and blunt concerning the Trump administration’s widespread assaults on clear applied sciences and the idiocy of all of it. Mike Shurtleff wrote:
After all the Orange Fool needs to kill a pro-EV coverage. Similar as he needs to kill photo voltaic PV, wind, and battery manufacturing. He proposed no less than two federal budgets slicing each the ITC and PTC throughout his 1st time period. Again then Republicans in Pink states on the Nice Plains have been benefitting from decrease value wind-generated electrical energy and prevented these cuts. There have been “guardrails” then. There are none now.
We’re speaking a couple of full enterprise moron, who blew threw most of his Daddy’s real-estate empire. He was chargeable for a number of bankruptcies. He didn’t make a freaking on line casino worthwhile. Casinos are simply cash producing machines.
… So the Chinese language stated they’d take market share within the auto business through the transition to EVs that was coming. … AND THEY ARE … BIG TIME … however the Orange Fool needs to eradicate any progress Biden made in battery/EV manufacturing within the USA. Sensible!!!
Coal has been dropping out to pure gasoline for greater than a decade, as a result of pure gasoline generated electrical energy COSTS LESS. Now most new electrical energy technology within the USA is wind and photo voltaic PV, as a result of they COST EVEN LESS than pure gasoline. The Orange Fool tried to mandate extra coal in his first time period, as a result of coal was extra dependable, however the conservative FERC stated “extra dependable” was a falsehood and killed the mandate … so now he needs to subsidize coal-generated electrical energy. He needs to subsidize a centuries-old supply of electrical energy, which may not compete in a free market on value. That’s actual enterprise genius, that’s!!! Dude! Decrease value is what wins out there!!! Larger value fails!!! … And there’s no query, regardless of all of the fossil fueled headwinds, that wind, photo voltaic PV, and battery storage are rising! They’re profitable! Fairly powerful idea for a enterprise genius like Chump.
Who voted for this imbecile anyway?
… I may rail on about tariffs resulting in inflation and market collapse … or random large firings of presidency employees with no transition plan to smaller, more practical authorities, or transition plan for personal employment of these individuals … or about violation of legal guidelines and the “inalienable rights” of USA residents … or concerning the full clown automotive of White Home appointees …however that’s sufficient for now.
Why isn’t Pete Hegseth in chains already for safety violations? I might have been for lower than he has accomplished.
Sure Chump, go forward and subsidize coal, go forward and kill battery/EV manufacturing within the USA, fireplace all federal employees, put big tariffs on all imports however give no incentives or time for USA manufacturing. Right here’s some extra rope from me. Grasp your self. Fool!
Sorry, guess that was not sufficient.
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