$500M taxpayer-backed loans are available to anyone, now?

Instructions to sign up are right over here http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/

It looks like ford has about 5B in loans from them. And Fisker Automotive has a lil more than Tesla in loans. and Fisker makes some damn sexy cars: https://www.google.com/search?q=fisker&oe=utf-8&aq=t...

Yep, they're definitely hot cars: http://jalopnik.com/5956179/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-h...

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Elon Musk doesn't regard Fisker as a serious competitor. He said something like: "Fisker is headed up by a car designer, not an engineer. The reason we haven't had electric cars isn't because they looked bad" (or words to that effect).

Sure... Anyone that has the skill and know how to build a company that can build a game changing product like Tesla has...

Gotta love opinions.

Yes, if you prove you're worth it.

Nothing except my own ethics. I don't like to take money from people who haven't consented to hand it over. Smells too much like theft. #dont_be_evil

Hope you don't drive anywhere.

Or do basically anything at all, really.

Well most banks give out loans without the consent of their members on a per loan basis. Taxes are similar, people agree to pay taxes but they don't have a say on a per loan basis of what is done with those funds.