Comments on: A viable alternative to high-speed rail? https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/14/a-viable-alternative-to-high-speed-rail/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: GregS https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/14/a-viable-alternative-to-high-speed-rail/#comment-34794 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:45:30 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48180#comment-34794 Tesla is in pretty good shape, and they have already paid off their Government backed loan.

]]> By: admin https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/14/a-viable-alternative-to-high-speed-rail/#comment-34091 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:23:55 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48180#comment-34091 In reply to Dyspeptic.

Dyspeptic: Believe me, we are struggling to solve the comment blocking issue. If I knew the tech answer myself, I’d be a billionaire like Bill Gates and wouldn’t be here serving you and California.

— John Seiler

]]> By: us citizen https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/14/a-viable-alternative-to-high-speed-rail/#comment-34069 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:58:48 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48180#comment-34069 Isnt Tesla in financial problems? I mean their car is not for the middle or lower class.

And just how much would it be to take a ride on this? If its out of line with a plane, then its not going to go anywhere……money vs time.

]]> By: Dyspeptic https://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/14/a-viable-alternative-to-high-speed-rail/#comment-34063 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:37:53 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=48180#comment-34063 Notice that two of Musk’s three “successful” companies depend directly on government contracts or subsidies and the other one (PayPal) is indirectly dependent on Federal Reserve meddling in the financial markets with various monetary stimuli. There is a phrase that describes entrepreneurs like Musk – Crony Capitalists!

His vaunted ability to make money is nothing more than a willingness to milk the current corrupt corporatist system for all he can get, taxpayers be damned. Hardly a laudable trait, but sadly typical in the waning years of our increasingly dysfunctional Constitutional Republic turned globe straddling leviathan.

It’s so good to see that Elon has cooked up another phantasmagorical techno-boondoggle to fool naive journalists and enthusiastic techies everywhere. 50 years from now people will read about this transportation boob tube and wonder how anyone believed such futuristic balderdash. And by the way, where is my flying car, my time share condo on Mars and my 200 year life span? Still stuck on the dusty front page of some long forgotten issue of Popular Science magazine, that’s where.

P.S. Congratulations CWD on your successful suppression of just about every comment on your website. You must be so proud!

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