Attacking Elon 1

Our current government administration is "all-in" for policies that promote the trend away from internal combustion cars and toward electric vehicles. They sponsored a "summit" meeting in 2021 to celebrate EV's in America, inviting legacy car makers . . but snubbing Tesla.

Why would they leave out "the company that sells more electric cars [image] in the US than all competitors combined?" (Clue: unlike Tesla, those legacy car makers are all unionized and the union has advocated for the current president's political party for many years.)

 

In 2020 about $900 million in federal funding for rural broadband internet was designated to Elon Musk's Starlink after they competed for it. But the FCC withdrew the funding when the current administration took over, saying they didn't meet the requirements. SpaceX was “deeply disappointed and perplexed," and claimed "Starlink is demonstrably one of the best options—likely the best option—to accomplish the goals" of the program. 

And there's more: "The White House is attacking Musk’s business empire . . throwing everything it can find at Musk, hoping that the endless barrage of regulatory, reputational and legal attacks will cause the world’s wealthiest man to kneel." 

"The viciousness of the investigations being conducted by the DOJ, the FAA, the FTC, the SEC, the NLRB . . against a successful American business leader is unprecedented."

(cont'd tomorrow)