OH, it’s rational. They distract from “better uses of the subsidies and capital” that would be more effective in fighting climate change.

I dislike Tesla in the same way many dislike the New England Patriots. It’s irrational, and I gain nothing from it, but I enjoy seeing them lose.

Re: investment banks, I heard one auto industry veteran put it well years ago: “Most of our investment bankers, even the managing directors, live in Manhattan and haven’t owned a car for years. They don’t get it.”

I’m glad you like it, truly.

1) Tesla is learning to build a car, and still has significant fuckups from a production, tooling, manufacturing, and distribution perspective. Automakers do it better.

Great products?

On GM’s side, this is likely lower risk than going through the negotiations to officially close the plant, even though if it wasn’t a union plant they’d just give everyone a week severance per year of service, along with offers for retraining and relocation, or something like that, and be done with it.

I know someone who has/is working for Tesla that is very close to upper mgmt. Their input was that “Tesla will eventually go bankrupt if Musk continues to run that company”. In my thoughts was that is exactly how Nikola Tesla, the inventor, died pennyless as he was preocupied with inventing and not enough on making a…

2nd: Oh, you don’t think they factored in likely legal costs when calculating the cost savings of shutting down those sites?

Neutral: Tesla will be absorbed by another manufacturer before it figures out how to build a quality car well.

15 years with me, and 28 years with my father before that. This one is definitely my forever car.

*Prepares to get made fun of.*

I’ve never considered myself as having a ‘forever’ car but Elise and I are close to 11 years into our mutual hostage situation. I’ve rebuild...all of it. I should probably just accept that it’s a forever car.

That’s because they’re whiny entitled bitches who don’t want to work. Not my problem.

I agree that viewpoint neutrality is both a lost cause and honestly not necessary. However, this paragraph is about the most simplistic, garbage thing I’ve seen on here, pretty much ever.

No, they haven’t.  Glad to see you’re riding the woe is me pity train, though.  

Last week - I think it was last week - it was Ballaban saying exactly the same thing but actually included the “Means of Production”.

I am not even sure what it means, though.
Let Labor build something without Land or Capital (and the requisite risks that go with that ownership), then come back to me, Erik.

Jalopnik has never been viewpoint neutral, which is fine.