Tesla would actually benefit from the credit being cancelled, since they will hit the 200k US units sold in 2018 anyway and have an order backlog they can’t keep up with. It would effectively increase the price of their competitors’ offerings.

Should the tax credit for EV’s be kept or not is debatable, there’s pros and cons on both sides.

Are we really complaining that a car “only” has 755hp?

Well honestly I’ve got nothing. You’ve got this car thing figured out, thats for sure. Can’t pull the wool over your eyes.

Ten years ago, almost to the day, a lady with whom I was on a date mentioned, “I’ve noticed that people who know a lot of facts about the world tend to be more liberal.” I politely deflected, saying that I knew plenty of very sharp folks who happened to be conservative based on certain values, yada yada.

A lot of it amounts to selective blindness. Obama’s golf playing is still remembered; Trump’s greater amount of golf-playing is ignored. “ISIS” and “Louisiana” represent the world burning, but Hurricane Sandy and other events were handled (more competently IMO) during the Obama administration. Puerto Rico has been…

I’m still waiting for them to acknowledge that Obama never took their guns.

A related and equally depressing point is that the kind of people who take this stuff quasi-seriously don’t even *care* that much about it. They’re not going to check back in a month or two and be like “why are the Seahawks still in the NFL?” while anxiously awaiting Sean Hannity to report on the latest developments…

This quote from the linked article is disturbing: “Fake or not, when they take the knee it’s the same difference,” one man said.

When I was a kid, people in my parent’s generation were immediately suspicious of anything that came from the internet. “Don’t meet anyone from the internet in real life!” “You can’t believe that, it’s just on the internet!”

Are there really people dumb enough to fall for this shit? Hell, I bet you could convince enough nimrods to elect an asshole like Donald Trump president! Can you imagine how awful that would..........ahhhhh fuck.

I had no idea CR issued ratings on cars they’ve never tested/driven before. Honestly, that sounds like an exceedingly stupid thing to do. I’ve used CR in the past to give me an overall guide of what cars to AVOID, but it’s certainly not the final determiner of what car I buy... I’ll likely continue this practice- but…

That’s such a useless semantic difference my face hurts. It’s up to Tesla to determine what a car sells for, everything else is how you feel. Everybody is “getting what they paid for” because there is no deception at the point of sale.

Are you upset that the only difference in power between a AMG GT and AMG GTS is a software tune by Mercedes too?

So are you also upset that your ISP doesn’t give you 300mb/s for the same price as the 30mb/s pack simply because they have the ability to unlock that speed by flipping a switch?

Did you even read the article?

No, it’s not. Because in both cases, you’d know up front that the range is limited, or that only six cylinders are working. You can pay to upgrade. Or refuse the deal, and just not buy the car.

“and after I sign on the dotted line”
Nope.

The article you posted is over two years old, with outdated information to match. It in no way responds to @Hunter3203, whose position is that while Musk takes subsidies, so does every single other player in every industry he’s involved in. And thus far, he has proven one of the more responsible parties in those…