Elon Musk Stands Strong On Trump Advisory Panel - Elects To Bring Change From Within

I saw a meme going around in which a smug-looking cowboy is looking at you and says "Lemme get this straight: You voted for a billionaire, who appoints other billionaires to fix the problems that billionaires made? You're a special kinda stupid, aren't 'cha!"

Granted, Musk is not a billionaire, but like the cowboy said, I have my doubts about Musk's sincerity of claiming to work with the fabulously wealthy because he has the intention of fixing the problems created by the fabulously wealthy. Based on one of Musk's greatest skills -- getting other people to pour money into his companies -- I speculate Musk is seeking to benefit from this relationship rather doing it for The Good Of Others.

Without an EPA (according to alleged leaked Administration documents showing the intent to eliminate the EPA completely within a few years), will Musk's EV company no longer get government subsidies, grants, and at-purchase government cash-back incentives? That's a scary thought for a guy running an EV-only company.

Either way he has an inside track to the inner workings of the fed. Nothing should shock him.

It's not an EV-only company, it's an energy (solar and batteries) company. He is also the head of SpaceX.

Require? No. Take advantage of, sure, just like everyone else. Not doing so would be bad for business.

You realize Musk is worth $13.4 billion right? He used 100% of his Paypal money to save both Tesla and SpaceX. If they both went bust, he would be broke. Most of his fortune today is surprisingly from SpaceX.

I see him as the voice of reason on the advisory committee. Hopefully he can convince Trump that six figure jobs at companies like Tesla/Apple/Google are more valuable to the US economy than $30,000/year old-school manufacturing or coal jobs.

Musk has also stated several times he would be completely fine with subsidies going to 0 if oil/gas subsidies and tax credits also dropped to 0. In California, the ZEV credits actually make 100% EV companies less competitive--traditional car manufacturers that make an EV can take the full ZEV credit while companies like Tesla, FF, and Lucid have to sell it at 50% of face value and soon less. Also, the $7,500 Federal Rebate will expire for Tesla in 2018. All traditional manufacturers will then have a $7,500 advantage, at least for the first 200,000 cars. If Trump eliminates the rebate for all EVs in 2018, again Tesla would actually benefit competitively.

I am so sick and tired of reading about the public backlashing on a group/company/person because they do not like the stated position of said entity!! Why are the university graduates opinions more valid than the non university graduate or even the high school drop outs?? All of these liberal thinking people tell how they hate being controlled by big business yet they rally around governmental control. Your still being controlled and manipulated but the major difference is your also having the controllers legislate what you can say or do about that control. Because the major voters that voted against Trump were university students/graduates their vote should be taken more seriously than the worker who raise #'s children and saw his children go serve in the military because they/he/she could not afford to attend university. The states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump are also the states that have the largest contribution to the military. Which to phrase it another way; the people that contribute the highest in ensuring your/my/every U.S. citizen's freedom! Anyone that wants to say that the university educated vote should mean more than these people should tell me why these people should even fight for your ideals???

I say I like the color green and the majority says they like the color purple, so does that mean I should now stop liking green to like purple because that is what the masses like??

You make valid points TheSteve but even with the EPA every organization that it has driven out of this country for its environmental impacts still operates and pollutes the world all the same. The organization now just pollutes the same air we all breath in (insert name of some third world country). The measures and controls only made it impossible for that corporation to meet that standards for that area. Steel production has not diminished any since the steel industry was moved off our eastcoast shores in the 80's. In fact steel production is at one of its highest levels globally and I would be willing to say the emissions for that production are probably a lot worse than they were in the US because the countries that the production moved to had a lot lower if any at all legislation covering manufacturing and emissions. So my stance is keep the jobs here and do as much as you can to clean the industry up without taking away its ability to make profits.

No industry except for government can operate at losses and still employ and survive. The problem with government operating at a loss is all the people suffer to pay for it while only the employees of the government benefit. Sounds more like servitude to the masses to me!!!!!