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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (6949)	4/5/2019 5:45:01 AM
From: berniel	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Respond to of 27055

Yeah I bought prius.. After 3 year i traded it in for a car with keyed ignition and a/c that comes on when you start the engine.. Oh BTW i can hear the blinkers too...8-)

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (6949)	4/5/2019 11:49:25 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27055

Don't be coy... tell us what you really think about Musk and Tesla! LOL You want to experience exasperation, try to explain to a Californian how energy is fungible. Today any extra capacity needed to charge electric cars on hot days comes from import and that usually means burning NG or Coal for the incremental energy to charge those. CA is trying to fix that by allowing you to specify your power has to come from renewables, but you know that means your city gets first crack at the renewable power needed for industry comes from wherever they can get it cheaply... duh... They are good for the air but I think most buy for the performance, status, subsidies, etc. plus the belief they are helping the planet. Try to tell them they can do far more for the planet by paying more to live close to where they work, take fewer or no jet plane trips and have smaller families..... futile. Tell them we need smaller families and nuclear power to really "save the planet with lower carbon emissions" and they think you are a nut. sciencemag.org

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (6949)	4/5/2019 12:10:13 PM
From: Sweet Ol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27055

Actually, Tesla is just the 2nd largest government soak job. The biggest is "Climate Change." The odds are better that we will have a Little Ice Age than Global Warming in our lifetime. But those in charge keep the other evidence hidden and ignore it. Without Global Warming Tesla would never have been hatched. Blessings, SOJ P.S. I am short Tesla.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (6949)	4/6/2019 11:30:57 AM
From: robert b furman	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27055

Hi Win, As I've been saying ,the S and X need a refresh and there's no money to pay back the coming due debt. This puppy will fall hard. Never invest in companies that require government subsidies to exist. Solindra is the poster child. Solyndra Bankruptcy: Solar Panel Company Won’t Pay Back Most Of Its $527 Million Government Loan By Alexander Eichler Solyndra’s not going to pay back the better part of its loans, which is bad news for its investors — better known as U.S. taxpayers. Solyndra, the solar panel company that famously filed for bankruptcy last September, will only be paying back about $24 million of the $527 million loaned to it by the U.S. government, according to Dow Jones reports. The company will also repay at least half of a $70 million investment from private equity firms, but much of a separate $1 billion investment from the private equity industry won’t be coming back. The Dow Jones report is based on a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that Solyndra filed in a bankruptcy court in Delaware last Friday. That Solyndra won’t be paying back the lion’s share of its government loan isn’t exactly surprising — the possibility has been discussed for months — but it’s certainly not good P.R. for the Obama administration, which has already taken heat over its relationship with the company. Solyndra proved to be a major black eye for Obama last year, when the company went bankrupt following a sizable infusion of taxpayer and private-investor cash. That failure was especially embarrassing for the Obama team because the president had been a vocal supporter of the company in the early days of his administration — in fact, Solyndra was the first company to receive a federal loan under the stimulus program in 2009. More than a thousand people lost their jobs when Solyndra went bankrupt, another blow for a sitting president overseeing a sustained unemployment crisis. Billionaire George Kaiser, one of Solyndra’s backers, was heavily involved in soliciting donations for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Goldman Sachs, a company that’s not exactly popular with Main Street, also served as Solyndra’s financial adviser. Now, as the 2012 presidential race heats up, Republicans have continued to emphasize the ties between Solyndra and the Obama White House, in effort to paint the president as a Washington insider who favors his close associates with cushy business deals. That did not end well. Bob