Wind turbines? Highly doubtful; that'll get the local up in arms.
What locals? Have you see where truck stops are located? They're mostly in agricultural zones, way out in the middle of the fields. Cows don't write letters. Corn doesn't call its congresscritter.
The farming regions are very active politically. The Corn Refiners or the Ethanol lobby have a lot a clout and biodiesel production has been rising sharply in the past few years, from 1.1 billion gallons in 2011 to 2.9 billion gallons in 2016. Electric cars threatens both ethanol & biodiesel; if the lobby perceives a need to act against Tesla, they'll use any available means and wind turbines would be an easy & visible target.
"Around $1,10/W installed [greentechmedia.com] in the US nowadays, and falling" Not sure if such low pricing will become the norm but that is a remarkable decrease over just a couple years ago. The Suniva petition, if successful, will make imported panels more expensive.
"They're going to be giant truck stops, covered, with solar panels and wind turbines. The same batteries buffer the power generation as buffer the high speed charging, so two for one"
Wind turbines? Highly doubtful; that'll get the local up in arms. And it'll take a lot of solar to provide power for even 1 or 2 trucks. The MegaChargers will need grid connections which isn't a bad thing as Tesla could potentially use the supporting PowerPacks to provide grid services which will bring in more revenue at significantly more than 7 cents per kWh.
"It's a new company, with new capital investment, if Tesla declared any profits and paid taxes on them, the accountants in charge deserve to be beaten to death with the tax code books. People who buy Tesla stock need to know fundamentals because it is a new company"
The problem is they're burning huge amount of cash relative to sales and in one of the most cash-intensive & regulated businesses in the world. The bleeding can't go on much longer and their liabilities are adding up quickly. Not making money is fine; but if they're not close to break-even by the end of 2018, after a full year of Model 3 production, then Musk has some explaining to do.
"The first Toyota Prius model starting being sold in 2003 - long before Musk had even heard of Tesla" Fuck, how did you manage to stuff so much wrong info into so few words? The Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997 and internationally in 2000; Eberhard & Tarpenning founded Tesla in July 2003 with Musk becoming Chairman in April 2004 & helping to securing financing while also investing millions of his own money.
"That Prius electric technology is so successful it is now integrated into many of Toyota's lines. More importantly, those lines are actually profitable, and aren't over priced, overly limited vehicles, that suck up govt tax payer money to manufacture"
Sure but that Prius tech did fuck all to get anyone excited about EVs or to goad the industry to get off their asses & build electric vehicles that people covet. Those lines are only profitable because Toyota already have profitable cars to offset the losses of the early years. It took them 5 years to get to ~120k sold in the USA which Tesla surpassed in roughly the same amount of time - for a car that cost THREE to FIVE times as much. Hell, the electric underpinnings barely changed for 10 years, the battery remained the same size & power for about as long and it took a dozen years for them to figure out a larger battery and that it might be a good idea to attach a power cord.
" Maybe he/she/ze/it/they was, perhaps, just more qualified and it had nothing to do with pandering. This may actually apply to Trump too. Perhaps voters did not want someone that was a US Senator, Secretary of State, or whatever else Hilary Clinton did or claimed to have done"
So they rejected Mitt Romney but elected Trump?? "Claimed to have done"??? What did Clinton "claim" that isn't the case?
She wanted to lay many of the troubles of the nation on white Christian heterosexual males and guess what happened? Those white Christian heterosexual males came out to vote and voted for Trump. As did most anyone that fit in only one of the white, Christian, heterosexual, and male boxes.
That didn't work so well in the recent elections in Virginia where the candidates of the deplorables got their butts kicked by just about every diversity imaginable. The self-described "Chief Homophobe of Virginia" who'd held his seat since 1992 lost to a transgender journalist who's the lead singer in a death metal band.
"He was so stupid that among other things he was head of Screen Actor's Guild, Governor of California, and President of the USA for two terms" None of those automatically make for a highly intelligent person. Anyone who knows how to pander can do it. Trump is a good case in point
"I don't think Ford needed a bailout, they had cut costs and taken out loans prior to the economic crisis"
I've been trying to find out the terms of Ford's loans for a long time & have come up with pretty much nothing. I've heard that it was a sweetheart deal backed by insiders but have no proof one way or the other. The amount of loans they got back them was over $20 billion at a time when that 10x their net income
Now, thin fruit flies like thunderstorms And thin farm boys like farm girls narrow; And tax firm men like fat tax forms – But time flies like an arrow. When tax forms tax all firm men's souls, While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks; That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls – And thins the fruit flies ranks. Like tossed bananas in the skies, The thin fruit flies like common yarrow; Then's the time to time the time flies – Like the time flies like an arrow.
How deranged does someone have to be to trust that the former director of the American Gestapo (read: FBI) is somehow an impartial and just source of American equity? Do you wish cross-dressing serial crook J Edgar Hoover was here, too?
Bitch, please. If Obama had even 1 link to Russia, you nutbags would want him lynched
"Rich folks desperately need a tax cut right now" Agreed. Give us your tired, your think-they're-so poor, huddled masses of triggered billionaires, yearning to be tax-free. And what about that extra $1.5 trillion hole that will find its way into the debt as a result, while the Party of Fiscal & Personal Responsibility holds sway? Er, well,erm... BENGHAZI, URANIUM ONE, LOCK HER UP....why, oh why, is the DOJ not investigating Crooked Hillary??
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he's not *confusing*, he's *conflating* those things & quite deliberately.
Wind turbines? Highly doubtful; that'll get the local up in arms.
What locals? Have you see where truck stops are located? They're mostly in agricultural zones, way out in the middle of the fields. Cows don't write letters. Corn doesn't call its congresscritter.
The farming regions are very active politically. The Corn Refiners or the Ethanol lobby have a lot a clout and biodiesel production has been rising sharply in the past few years, from 1.1 billion gallons in 2011 to 2.9 billion gallons in 2016.
Electric cars threatens both ethanol & biodiesel; if the lobby perceives a need to act against Tesla, they'll use any available means and wind turbines would be an easy & visible target.
Thanks for the info
"Around $1,10/W installed [greentechmedia.com] in the US nowadays, and falling"
Not sure if such low pricing will become the norm but that is a remarkable decrease over just a couple years ago.
The Suniva petition, if successful, will make imported panels more expensive.
"They're going to be giant truck stops, covered, with solar panels and wind turbines. The same batteries buffer the power generation as buffer the high speed charging, so two for one"
Wind turbines? Highly doubtful; that'll get the local up in arms. And it'll take a lot of solar to provide power for even 1 or 2 trucks. The MegaChargers will need grid connections which isn't a bad thing as Tesla could potentially use the supporting PowerPacks to provide grid services which will bring in more revenue at significantly more than 7 cents per kWh.
"It's a new company, with new capital investment, if Tesla declared any profits and paid taxes on them, the accountants in charge deserve to be beaten to death with the tax code books. People who buy Tesla stock need to know fundamentals because it is a new company"
The problem is they're burning huge amount of cash relative to sales and in one of the most cash-intensive & regulated businesses in the world. The bleeding can't go on much longer and their liabilities are adding up quickly. Not making money is fine; but if they're not close to break-even by the end of 2018, after a full year of Model 3 production, then Musk has some explaining to do.
"The first Toyota Prius model starting being sold in 2003 - long before Musk had even heard of Tesla"
Fuck, how did you manage to stuff so much wrong info into so few words? The Prius first went on sale in Japan in 1997 and internationally in 2000; Eberhard & Tarpenning founded Tesla in July 2003 with Musk becoming Chairman in April 2004 & helping to securing financing while also investing millions of his own money.
"That Prius electric technology is so successful it is now integrated into many of Toyota's lines. More importantly, those lines are actually profitable, and aren't over priced, overly limited vehicles, that suck up govt tax payer money to manufacture"
Sure but that Prius tech did fuck all to get anyone excited about EVs or to goad the industry to get off their asses & build electric vehicles that people covet. Those lines are only profitable because Toyota already have profitable cars to offset the losses of the early years. It took them 5 years to get to ~120k sold in the USA which Tesla surpassed in roughly the same amount of time - for a car that cost THREE to FIVE times as much.
Hell, the electric underpinnings barely changed for 10 years, the battery remained the same size & power for about as long and it took a dozen years for them to figure out a larger battery and that it might be a good idea to attach a power cord.
What maintenance or repairs have been needed, even if free?
" Maybe he/she/ze/it/they was, perhaps, just more qualified and it had nothing to do with pandering. This may actually apply to Trump too.
Perhaps voters did not want someone that was a US Senator, Secretary of State, or whatever else Hilary Clinton did or claimed to have done"
So they rejected Mitt Romney but elected Trump??
"Claimed to have done"??? What did Clinton "claim" that isn't the case?
She wanted to lay many of the troubles of the nation on white Christian heterosexual males and guess what happened? Those white Christian heterosexual males came out to vote and voted for Trump. As did most anyone that fit in only one of the white, Christian, heterosexual, and male boxes.
That didn't work so well in the recent elections in Virginia where the candidates of the deplorables got their butts kicked by just about every diversity imaginable.
The self-described "Chief Homophobe of Virginia" who'd held his seat since 1992 lost to a transgender journalist who's the lead singer in a death metal band.
"He was so stupid that among other things he was head of Screen Actor's Guild, Governor of California, and President of the USA for two terms"
None of those automatically make for a highly intelligent person. Anyone who knows how to pander can do it.
Trump is a good case in point
"I don't think Ford needed a bailout, they had cut costs and taken out loans prior to the economic crisis"
I've been trying to find out the terms of Ford's loans for a long time & have come up with pretty much nothing.
I've heard that it was a sweetheart deal backed by insiders but have no proof one way or the other.
The amount of loans they got back them was over $20 billion at a time when that 10x their net income
"I don't even know whose ear to yell into about them anymore, because they simply don't care"
Yell at them & Elon on Twitter.
" Now let’s look. At what a real trucking company thinks"
JB Hunt is a real trucking company and they've reserved several Tesla Semis
I see we're confusing power & energy.....again
Where does myrrh fall? Is that the worthless common?
Myrrh is useful medicinally, as an antiseptic & painkiller
on January 6. Problem solved.
I have very close Ukrainian friends with whom I've spent Xmas several times which is on Jan 7th. So anything I buy for them is at a discount.
China, India & the Middle East were doing great stuff long before Europe
Then succumbed to religious extremism and became shitholes.
Plenty of religious extremism, of the Xtian kind, in the great old USA.
You mean world history?
White people invented all the shit everyone else appropriates for granted.
Fuck off.
China, India & the Middle East were doing great stuff long before Europe
Now, thin fruit flies like thunderstorms
And thin farm boys like farm girls narrow;
And tax firm men like fat tax forms –
But time flies like an arrow.
When tax forms tax all firm men's souls,
While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks;
That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls –
And thins the fruit flies ranks.
Like tossed bananas in the skies,
The thin fruit flies like common yarrow;
Then's the time to time the time flies –
Like the time flies like an arrow.
Lick my balls and call me sally, dooschbag!
1st line of your autobiography?
"it should of kept up"
Evidently, you didn't keep up in English grammar
How deranged does someone have to be to trust that the former director of the American Gestapo (read: FBI) is somehow an impartial and just source of American equity? Do you wish cross-dressing serial crook J Edgar Hoover was here, too?
Bitch, please. If Obama had even 1 link to Russia, you nutbags would want him lynched
"The best way to fire someone is to get the competition to poach him/her."
and then sue them for poaching!!
WIN-WIN!!
"Rich folks desperately need a tax cut right now"
Agreed. Give us your tired, your think-they're-so poor, huddled masses of triggered billionaires, yearning to be tax-free.
And what about that extra $1.5 trillion hole that will find its way into the debt as a result, while the Party of Fiscal & Personal Responsibility holds sway?
Er, well,erm... BENGHAZI, URANIUM ONE, LOCK HER UP....why, oh why, is the DOJ not investigating Crooked Hillary??