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Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) 270

mi shares an opinion piece written by Jenny Beth Martin via The Hill: A study published in 2015 by The Los Angeles Times revealed that just three of Musk's ventures -- SolarCity Corp. (which manufactured and installed solar energy systems before its 2016 merger with Tesla Motors Inc.), Tesla Motors Inc. (which manufactures electric vehicles), and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX (which builds rocket ships) -- had received $4.9 billion in government subsidies to that point in time. By now, Musk's various ventures have sucked well over $5 billion from government coffers. Worse: in order to induce car buyers to spend their money on electric vehicles, the federal government offers a $7,500 rebate on the purchase price. Some states enhance that rebate with rebates of their own. In California, for instance, purchasers of electric vehicles get a state-funded rebate of $2,500 more.

Slashdot reader mi asks: "Why are you and I subsidizing Elon Musk's products and when will his businesses be able to compete on their own?"

Comment Slashdor, Once Technical, Now Politically.. Left (Score 0) 71

That Verge article is an indoctrination piece. Garbage article from a garbage outfit. The submitter should have found a publication that deals with actual TV broadcasting and linked to that article instead of this verge garbage. Come on people, do Your Own Thinking instead of getting indoctrinated.

Comment Re:Grain of salt (Score 1) 170

Parent is on-point. Feds are using "fear" and "misunderstanding" in order to ground drones so they can continue burning ranchers out of their homesteads, bankrupting them, forcing them to free their land so it can be "reclaimed" in the name of "conservation" without being seen by the public. This, is the real reason.

Comment Re:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST - THIS is Slashdot's colle (Score 1) 795

If you're wondering why we're questioning government-funded research that's been going on since Bush41 and was designed to obtain one and only one conclusion; that we are somehow warming the Earth and therefore need government oversight and regulation over every human activity that will, in the end, enslave our children, grandchildren, grand-grandchildren, etc... then yes, we are seeing thru the thinly veiled plan.

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