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Re:Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties by halfmatthalfcat on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:52PM (#28634370)
Tesla has an entire energy (solar) division via the SolarCity acquisition.
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Re:Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties by kreeben on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:00PM (#28634482)
Right, right, of course, thx for pointing that out.

Now, how does that make Tesla "good for society"?

I'm not saying they aren't. I'm simply asking, how is mining rare earth minerals (by blowing up one mountain top after the other) to produce solar panels or batteries "good for society"?

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Re:Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties by halfmatthalfcat on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:05PM (#28634540)
How about better for society. Maybe our qualifiers are off. The ceiling for making solar and battery tech green is much higher imo than burning fossil fuels.

Any conversation we have in this realm is relative and we're basing that relative qualification against fossil fuels.

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Re:Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties by kreeben on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:21PM (#28634737)
>> better for society.

According to what model?

For the sake of what's best for humanity, according to what model is what Tesla is doing "better"?

Do you know what will happen once we run out of rare earth minerals? Will we launch a space ship and mine Mars? Do you know that Mars contains those minerals that we need in order for Tesla to truly pursue their goal?

Is there science behind this belief, or simply a yearning for your stock to become the next GameStop?

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