Anti-Elon Musk Campaign Has Big Ties to Big Energy Lorraine Chow
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The "Stop Elon" website is a giant hit piece on Musk's several companies and his endeavors. Its about page states:
"Elon Musk has defrauded the American Taxpayer out of over $4.9 Billion in the form of subsidies, grants, and other favors. We are challenging not just Elon, but the entire culture of corporations making billions of dollars off of the American people for almost zero return to the consumer. CEO's like Musk are taking advantage of Americans, and it is our intention to end their free ride." The $4.9 billion figure stems from a debunked Los Angeles Times story. While Musk said that government subsidies are "helpful" they are also "not necessary" for his company to run. He pointed out that $4.9 billion is from "adding up everything that's ever happened and including things that will take the next 20 years."
Musk suggested that the
Times report was planted after the International Monetary Fund's staggering report that the fossil fuel industry receives more than $5 trillion in subsidies a year. During a talk in May, the sustainable transport/clean energy advocate urged a revolt against Big Energy for allegedly feeding negative stories about his work to the press.
"We need to appeal to the people—educate people to sort of revolt against this and to fight the propaganda of the fossil fuel industry which is unrelenting and enormous," Musk said.Agelbert NOTE: See below for the Musk proper action we-the-people must take in order to rid ourselves of the Fossil Fuel Big Fish.
http://www.ecowatch.com/elon-musk-citizens-for-republic-2110459285.htmlAgelbert NOTE: EXCELLENT Comments!
Jeff Del CastilhoThis is just the beginning. IMO, Elon has been flying under the radar for a long time, even despite recent successes. He single handedly could take the world off of oil as well as infinitely increase humankind's chances of survival, all in a single lifetime - and with style and grace. I don't think the world yet realizes the greatness they are witnessing. When big oil and fossil and their cronies finally catch on that they are being brought down, I fear there will be far worse than internet propaganda against his efforts.
I mean he built and electric car company in the middle of a recession in the most expensive part of the world to live. The car was one of the best products ever made, looks fantastic, holds 7 and is the fastest production vehicle ever. Best part - it runs on sunshine!
I'm a fan in case it wasn't obvious.
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Michelle Kingsbury · Sales Executive at Temple-Inland
so am I
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John Thaller · Essex Catholic High School
Elon will simply pick up and leave the country, develop his company elsewhere. He is not obligated to do business here, and if he is threatened then by all means he should go elsewhere. With the departure, he will take all his technical smarts, his patents, his business plans, and many jobs, and plant them somewhere else where it will prosper. In the mean time the US will have lost the race again like we did solar panels and wind turbines. We will be stuck with a $300 billion trade deficit by oil, will continue to spread mercury, lead, cadmium, vanadium and other bad chemicals in the air by burning coal. We will give up the 180,000 in the clean energy business, perhaps saving 60,000 in the coal industry. Go for it folks, it's only our future.
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Nigel FranksThe USA lost the lead in Solar PV and wind energy thanks to the fossil fuel companies.
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Pascal Molineaux · Professor at Universidad Javeriana Cali
The big weight dinosaurs are feeling the heat of inevitability... Big Dirty Fossil Fuel - hugely propped during the years by generous tax subsidies, incentives and breaks, by policies meant to bolster their profit margins and reduce costs, and vociferously upheld by kowtowing politicians, is now afraid. They see the trend, they know public opinion is shifting, they see the dark future for their gunk. So what do they do? Start a smear campaign against potential competition. Finance a denial of fact and science. Ensure their kowtowing politicians get elected and friendly policies get bored in. They couldn't give a f...t for anything else but their bottom line. They will be called out and lose. Elon Musk is a true pioneer, of the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Those that are so dimwitted as to refuse the inevitability of the coming energy revolution are dinosaurs and will end in the dust heap of history. Good riddance.