Tesla Fights Back Against Car Lobby, Appeals NJ Sales Ban
How can you not like the Tesla Roadster? Yes. it’s prohibitively expensive, but its breakthrough technology is bound to find its way into less expensive vehicles, and it’s a small but significant step away from fossil fuels. All that’s needed is a “green grid”, and with wind accounting for a small but quickly increasing portion of generated electrical energy in the US, progress is tangible if slower than the planet needs.
Elon Musk is fighting the New Jersey sales ban that made national headlines last month, appealing the state’s position and calling out the auto dealer lobby. Musk is obviously a fan of Sun Tzu, as he has chosen his battlefield well in the war against…
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.