Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxerickson on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:00PM (#19744022)

Yuh, electricity production totally doesn't overlap with the subsidies that petroleum drilling gets, not one little bit, not at all.

Of course moving to electric vehicles is a necessary step towards getting off of the petrocarbons, but it isn't sufficient, production of electricity also has to move off of them.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:04PM (#19744043)

You’re being disingenuous. You want to argue drilling subsidies for fracking cheap natgas for power generation? I won’t argue against that. But it’s all going renewables on economics alone (renewables and batteries are already cheaper than natural gas and coal), just not fast enough. We need to get off of combustion vehicles and power generation as soon as possible, full stop.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by maxerickson on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:06PM (#19744051)

I'm being sarcastic, not disingenuous.

The "just not fast enough" happens to be an important factor.

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