Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 7, 2014 @11:55AM from the click-and-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes Tesla decided not to build its new $5 billion battery factory in Texas, but the company still wants to sell its electric cars directly over the Internet there. The automaker hopes that the possibility of future investment in the state will be enough to overcome the Texas Automobile Dealers Association lobby and change dealership laws. From the article: "Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla's vice president for business development admits that getting the law changed won't be easy. 'Does the fact that we didn't site the factory there complicate things? Absolutely,' O'Connell said. 'But we're going to be doing a number of big battery factories in the coming years and we're going to need new vehicle factories as well, and there's a certain logic to doing those in Texas.' He didn't elaborate, but added that the state may not be so attractive if current sales regulations stand. 'If we're banned in Texas, why are we investing billions of dollars here?,' O'Connell asked."

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You mean Democrats, 40 years each way by raymorris · 2014-12-07 14:21 · Score: 0, Troll

By "republicans" you mean "Democrats" . Texas didn't have a single. Republican governor between 1876 and 1983. These laws were passed in the late 1930s and early 1940s (first in 1937). So that's right in the middle of the Democrats' hundred-year reign in Texas.
Of course after that, the Republicans took over Texas, the economy boomed, and everyone fleeing California started moving here.