This is true, but the ICE in your car is much less efficient and has much less emissions control tech than a fossil fuel fired power plant. Electric cars are still big winners emissions wise even when you consider the source of their electricity.

Musk is right, the public health cost of fossil fuels is staggering:

Soylendra gets beat up upon, but the program as a whole actually made the government money. You make enough loans and there’s bound to be a few that tank.

He exists, which is divisive enough for today’s GOP.

Because he’s done what, exactly, that has divided the parties?

Great work Barrack, but I’m sure the Republicans will find something to moan about

probably just gonna get sucked into a black hole anyway

Tesla Dead Cat Bounce?

CAFE was simplified in 2012 from a very complex formula to a bunch of cut off curves that are based on vehicle “footprint” where footprint is the track*wheelbase. So larger cars have lower targets. Also CAFE has different standards for light trucks

Musk: So, we didn’t make a profit last quarter even though you guys expected us to. We also didn’t make nearly as much money as you thought we would. But we spent money on stuff, and we might sell a few thousand more cars than you thought we would. Also, even though we’re developing a new car and building an entire…

Really? Musk promising profit is enough to get more people investing and to disregard their terrible financials? Wow, the people who are buying up shares must be nearly as dimwitted as he is...

Meet the new Ford Exaggeration! It’s a Fiesta hatch with a 1/2 inch lift kit that counts toward our truck MPG.

“Elon Musk can walk on water. I saw it happen once.”

Your deposit is a cash basis event. US companies do their accounting on an accrual basis which means that while they have your cash in their hot little hands they cannot actually book it as revenue until they sell you the good or service that you are purchasing.

Yes Ford is building the Mexican factories, but they’re still making a much larger investment here.

I think everybody’s going to be severly disapointed. Everybody thinks it’s going to be a scaled down S, but it’ll probably be close to the Bolt. Nobody has seen a thing about the car yet, and it’s already the best ever, ultra luxury, high performance, way better than that shitty GM. Yeah, sure, Tesla’s going to sell a…

Great points. I’ll just add one thing: the housing bubble would have been a moderate downturn similar to the dot com bubble if not for the derivatices market. Completely unregulated, there was anywhere from 5 to 10 times as much money bet on derivatives of mortgage-backed debt instruments as on the mortgages…

There are already complaints of bias towards a particular manufacturer:

“X is not as bad as Y, therefore we shouldn’t care about X” is a pretty stupid argument to be making.

I’m’a help you out here by highlighting the key word in that article.