A person who is interested in seeing facts come to light? That these facts threaten your progressive future is irrelevant to the morality of that person.

I agree that it was nice to hear the breakdown of Tesla's financial relationship with US governments (federal and state), but the author's tone was remarkably one-sided, in a way that could in fact be described as "wicked", though I think that's taking it a bit far.

To me, those numbers were a cause for celebration: wow, our government is actually effectively encouraging a terrific technology and company.

Sure, it's opinionated, but it's only wicked if you think that viewpoints which disagree with your own are evil. And that is an extremely dangerous idea.

By the way, I agree with you; subsidies should be used to promote products with positive externalities.

I could not find an author credit attached to this piece. I either didn't look hard enough, or the WSJ chose to not include this. Anyone who reads opinions by the WSJ have any background on this?