Huh? Indiana Bill Allows Tesla To Direct Sell Vehicles But Bars Anyone Else From Doing So

Because only Tesla should be allowed to have a monopoly, price fix, and cash rape consumers!

Consumers have options - don't buy a Tesla, buy a Volt/Bolt.

Quizz, you are confused by "having options" and "playing by the same rules".

@quizz If a consumer wants a Tesla but can only buy one at a fixed price set by Tesla, they do NOT have options and that is a monopoly.

What Tesla fears is that if they really had to embrace a free market like all other manufacturers must do, then their little Gestapo butt party would be over.

@MD: Tesla is a BRAND, not an industry. Dumbass!!

Who in hell said anything about Tesla being an industry? Tesla--the brand--wants to have a nationwide monopoly on its products to be able to price fix and cash rape consumers. @HenryN, stay off the pipe dude! It's affecting your ability to communicate intelligibly.

After a few weeks going away, I came back here and found @MD still as dumb as ever. Save the oxygen to feed your remaining brain cells, they need it.

Tesla is a pioneer with desirable products and new direct-sale business model - a grave threat to the inherently inefficient auto industry and dealership model.

The dealers with their fake competition have been the pain for the vast majority of the auto consumers. The complexity of multi-layer pricing for the same product - MSRP, true invoice, fake invoice, mark-up, mark-down, endless array of discounts (employee, relative, arm forces, student, loyal customer, end-of-month, end-of-quarter, going-out-of-business, ... ), and the anxiety of dealing with shady salespeople have been the least pleasant aspect of the car buying and ownership experience.

Consumers have been putting up with this practice for so long. The current NADA is the real definition of monopoly. Time to abolish it.

So to recap what @HenryN said: It is perfectly OK to give business benefits to a company and deny those same benefits to the competition. Moreover, creating a monopoly that is detrimental to the consumer is a good thing.

Are you really that ideologically inept? Oh, wait. Let me translate that down to your literacy level: "You stoopit!"

Allow me to connect the dots for all of you....let's start with the starring cast of characters..

So, grinning Elon Musk (1) is an eager participant in Trump's "Technology Business Council". Mr. Musk smiles broadly, all the time, in Donald Trump's presence. Donald Trump (2) is President of the US

Mike Pence (3) , from Indiana is Vice President. Recall that Mike Pence used Indiana taxpayer money to "keep jobs" from Carrier air conditioning in Indiana (well, actually he didn't, as a bunch of jobs left - but the taxpayer money spent perhaps left some jobs there).

Can we suppose that Mike Pence made some calls and voilà, the Indiana laws cast favor upon Tesla.

At least with Trump, all this stuff is out in the open and obvious. Obama pulled Sh*t like this all the time but he hid it and buried it.