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Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can’t, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements – such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars.
It’s a lucrative business for Tesla – bringing in $3.3 billion over the course of the last five years, nearly half of that in 2020 alone. The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla’s net income of $721 million – meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020.
Tesla’s Business Model Isnt Selling Cars
tesla being a running dog for big oil is so on the nose I could vomit
Do… do people. Not understand what this is really about?
The federal government is pushing electronic vehicles, green and environmental policies, FAR in excess of consumer demand. This makes Tesla, one of the leading producers of green cars, have a very interesting problem.
They HAVE The zero emission credits that everyone wants, but no profit in selling cars because most people may talk a bit green game but they want dumbfuck SUV’s.
This means those tax credits, things that the government MADE to be transferable, one of the most valuable commodities that TESLA has, so they can, and do, sell them to other manufacturers, to offset their emissions. It still leads to a more environmentally friendly system, as emissions ARE going down…
But you fuckers just go ‘oh but oil people are maybe getting away with something! DOWN WITH PEOPLE!’
fucking just. Learn goddamn basic public policy. This isn’t even the first time I’ve had to say ‘This is all that will happen when you do these kinds of tax credits’ and you idiots didn’t listen, now you’re offended that the thing you pushed has the result you didn’t want to be told about.
They HAVE The zero emission credits that everyone wants, but no profit in selling cars because most people may talk a bit green game but they want dumbfuck SUV’s.
whoa it’s almost as if markets are unable to address situations that require long-term planning (like say, averting climate change)
This means those tax credits, things that the government MADE to be transferable, one of the most valuable commodities that TESLA has, so they can, and do, sell them to other manufacturers, to offset their emissions. It still leads to a more environmentally friendly system, as emissions ARE going down…
the decline in emissions has nothing to do with the tax credits being transferable, which exclusively acts to allow companies to evade incentives which are theoretically in place to encourage them to shift their production to electric cars.
But you fuckers just go ‘oh but oil people are maybe getting away with something! DOWN WITH PEOPLE!’
do you think people criticize “oil people” because they object to people in general. is that something you genuinely believe.
fucking just. Learn goddamn basic public policy. This isn’t even the first time I’ve had to say ‘This is all that will happen when you do these kinds of tax credits’ and you idiots didn’t listen, now you’re offended that the thing you pushed has the result you didn’t want to be told about.
actually what i pushed for was global communism. is didn’t push for any weak-ass tax credits and i certainly didn’t push for tax credits to be transferable.
there’s a strange double-think going on here tho where you (falsely) claim that the far-left (as in people like me and op, not dumbass obama dems) has been pushing hard for transferable carbon tax credits, and we are stupid for doing so, while also claiming that these transferable carbon tax credits have, in fact, been successful at reducing emissions? so i guess if you believe that this does in fact lead to a more environmentally friendly system…… you’re welcome?
although again, neither myself nor op has ever pushed for carbon tax credits, let alone transferrable ones, so i guess instead you should thank the centrist libs who pushed for that as a weak gutless compromise, if you think they’re so effective.
at any rate i searched “tax credits” on your blog and it looks like you’ve never once told someone who expressed a pro-carbon tax credit position they were wrong, you’ve only made a similar sanctimonious smug argument in response to a different post criticizing tesla for doing this, and the only time you even reblogged anything mentioning tax credits before then was this post:
but who knows, perhaps there is some post i’m missing where communists say “golly gee i sure love carbon tax credits” and you sagely explain the folly of their ways, but i’m just not seeing it around.
