Comments on: Tesla Motors CEO: Gas Should Be $10/Gallon

"I'm Anti-Tax, But I'm Pro-Carbon Tax," Says Elon Musk, Whose Company Has Put Out Electric Sports Car

[ubrew12]

and gets 200 miles per charge. You can refill its 'tank' in 30 minutes.

[ubrew12]

The Tesla sedan, just unveiled, will cost $40,000, and seats 7.

[kphx]

Oh the trees are making Oxygen. We are not paying for that. May be including that, the price of gasoline should be $100. What a jackass argument.

Again Toyota Prius is 2% Hybrid. Shut your mouth buddy. The technology is in its infancy. It has to grow and make its headway by normal means. Nobody starts running the moment they are born. You have to learn to stand up first, then walk, then run. It's the same with any new technology. Till then just get the hell out of the way.

[ubrew12]

Electric vehicles triple your miles per gallon of CO2. Why? Because an electric power plant burning oil gets a 30% efficiency, while your internal combustion engine gets less than 5% efficiency. Add in nuclear and solar, wind, wave, etc, and the promise of electric vehicles is substantial.

You, on the other hand, can keep burning gasoline in your engine: converting 95% of it to heat. Way to go...

[Brandywine33]

People need to wake up and face the music to the fact that there is much evil running this country. And that evil is not in the form of a gruesome-faced beast with a grotesque body. It can come in the form of a handsome vile scumbody with a smile and charm to make you put your trust totally in them, all the while knowing they are going to destroy you. Many will fall for it.

[aka_KJB]

You mean like the evil guys we just replaced? Funny, I seem to remember the same bunch of people who are screaming about the end of days being any day now because of the new President the PEOPLE elected were firmly convinced that Bill Clinton was that smile & charm guy that was going to end the world. And it never happened. Not even close. Guy couldn't end a certain fluid stain on a dress so I wasn't too worried about his possibly having a hotline to Satan. And complain about Obama all you want to but the fact is he just makes all your guys look bad. Really bad. Deservedly bad.

[ubrew12]

Elon Musk is a genius.

His genius is less of the 'incredibly smart' kind than of the 'incredibly hard worker' kind. I don't say I'm like him, I'm not. But I admire him just the same.

I work for him, I won't say where. I see him about once a week, if not daily. He parks his Tesla in the parking lot, charging, near the stairway I take down to my work. He's a great guy. He's got the 'vision thing'. Sometimes, that causes him to talk 'beyond the horizon' when he's giving us a pep talk. But actually, he's VERY grounded. And the way he runs his companies, you know that, even though he wishes gas would be $10/gallon, he knows the world he lives in, and is 100% PRIMED to take his profits from it where he can.

Really, an awesome guy. Like the rest of us on the left, however, he knows that, long term, things like global warming and peak oil are going to bite our children in the **SS. It bothers him, and it bothers me. I'm glad to work for him.

[ray999999]

and i can't wait till your in the unemployment line and the dirt bag with you

[Brandywine33]

There's change coming, much change whether people want it to or not. Of course they want the price of gas to be as much as $10.00 a gallon, and it may very well be someday if they have their way. That's their dream, to be hideously filthy rich. If gas gets anywhere near that amount most people won't be able to drive a car, and I doubt this dumb electric car will be a walk in the park either. Again, much change coming, but I doubt for the better.

[ralpherus]

IF scum creeps get the price of gasoline to go up to aid their companies, they need to be heckled and swarmed and spit on by angry Americans. That is theft beyond unforgivable.

[scallywag12]

It would only hurt the poor folks. Rich folk can buy a new car. Poor folk can't and they can't afford a $10.00 gas either. Poor folk will pay the penalty in the long run. Raising the price of gas will not get poor people in a new car. It will only make them suffer more than they already are.

[omded]

Regarding the nuclear power question: The vast majority of our nation's electric power comes from plants that burn fossil fuels. I don't foresee our nation building a lot of nuclear power plants, so I don't expect nuclear power to be an answer here.

Regarding the issue of coal being available domestically, the argument was concerning carbon emissions, not dependence on foreign resources. While coal is available domestically, this is an entirely new argument (which is well worth discussing). Regarding nuclear fuels, I'm not sure we get those domestically. I may be wrong, but I believe much of our nuclear raw materials are imported from Africa. But, again, the domestic availablilty of these resources really wasn't the argument here. At the same time, I see this as a potentially good argument, but there just isn't any more time for that tonight.

[Newster1]

What about areas that are serviced by Nuclear power?
Posted by gravyboat3000

What about em? the WASTE still hasn't been figured out where the hel1 it will go for 50,000 years safely, we still haven't figured out how to safely mine and process the raw materials without creating radioactive dust piles from the mining and other operations.
Fact of the matter is we don't need more electric and gas to keep up with demand, we need LESS people!

[rf35]

While I agree with needing less people, I still advocate a major shift towad nuclear power. The French recycle their waste. The reprocessing techniques are not perfect, but they do reduce mssive amounts of waste and would likely improve with more countries building more reactors. Especially true of America, the land of innovation. As for what to use as fuel, thorium is more widely distributed than natural uranium and the processing doesn't produce large amounts of additional radioactive waste.

[ray999999]

Motors founder Elon Musk what a dirt bag this guy is another terrorist

[armyoftwelve]

Yeah and when it costs $10/gallon we'll go to church using a donkey cart. Gas should probably be between $3-5/gallon. But only if more of that goes to the Treasury and not the blood-sucking oil companies or hateful despots in tthe middle east.....

[mnbrant]

Naw I liked it when it was 1.59$ a gallon. By the way, when did we start to use $ for dollars? what symbols do other countries money use? I mean there are only like 9 symbols on my keyboard.

[PVperson2]

So tell us "oh great money bags", how should the other 99.9% of the world live?

[PVperson2]

Isn't it wonderful that the insanely rich are able to play at electric cars and spaceships while the rest of us plug along with the dregs.

[gravyboat3000]

Oh wow
Looky here. The owner of an electric car company wants gas to be $10. Why? So people can dump regular cars and buy one of his crappy cars.

Besides everyone use your little brains. Electric Cars need = electricity
Electricity is made by = 1) coal 2) GAS 3) others.

You get the point.
Posted by Anti-Zionist_107

"the point"?

You mean, the fact that we have coal and nuclear energy to make electricity, but we have to buy gas?

hehehe

Your head is pointy...

And you smell of elderberries...

[theBike1945]

I love listening to Musk because he's such a brainless soul that everyone can see that makoing money (ala Gates) is mostly about associating with the right people (Eberhard in Musk's case) and beingin the right spot. Certainly brains played no part in Musk's success. Even the Tesla was totally created by others, not that I would call that primitive
and impractical goKart a success. I think they' just sold their 500th car -after two years.You're always guaranteed a couple of insane examples of a dysfunctional mind and musk's claim that the Prius is not a hybrid is a classic. Believe it or not, but the term hybrid was not coined by the mostly iliterate Musk, and had nothing to do with the Volt-type concept Musk is shooting for - plug-ins weren't even a concept when the word hybrid was created, so it couldhardly be meant to apply only to them. So exactly what term has Musk decided the Prius must use? He doesn't. Musk doesn't think. Musk talks. And talks. And talks. And we note that GM objects to Musk's claim that the Volt is a hybrid - no, the Volt is an electric car with a range extender. That range extender can be anything, including another battery, a fuel cell, etc. My advice : tell Musk to shut up. Nothing he says
is worth listening to, excepting for amusement or to feel superior to someone who apparently has a whole lot more money than gray cells, neither of which he had any control over.

[incog-nito]

Yeah sure, why not. Gas should be $10/gal. so that people who cannot afford to buy gas will spend $100K for his electric car. Makes perfect sense to me.

[gravyboat3000]

I wonder if the Band Tesla is planning to sue him for stealing their name...

[aka_KJB]

Considering that the band TESLA "stole" their name from a historical figure, probably not. Please tell me you knew that 'Tesla' was a person's name before it was the name of a metal band.
Besides, if he were going to pick an appropriate band name for his company, it would have probably been "Cheap Trick".

[gravyboat3000]

Again, this guy, like a lot of the so-called "environmental champions" is a total fraud. The reason he wants gasoline to cost $10 a gallon is because it will make his product (electric cars) more inviting and economical to the car buying public. He cares a whole lot more about his bank account than the earth's environment, and don't let him fool you to believe otherwise.
Posted by omded

What about areas that are serviced by Nuclear power?