Comments on: Despite incentives, Tesla stiffs CA

By: Ian Random

Ian Random — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:43:32 +0000

Texas isn’t quite as cheap as people like to think, just look at the property taxes, but the processes do move a lot faster there. The delay to make money must kill smaller businesses with high capital requirements and large bank payments. The inspector thing is how Hugh Hewitt, the radio guy, supplements his income by fighting those sudden discoveries. Google Clark Foam to see how easy the regulatory environment was for him.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 06:19:11 +0000

Billie

Local/State enviro inspectors and their attorneys love to sniff around commercial and industrial properties looking for mini brown fields.

If you sell or refi, change insurers, or get new tenants skittish lenders and/or insurers may ask for assurances the property is “clean”.

Whatever that ends up meaning- Ugh

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:09:15 +0000

I’ll go slow: Tesla is a business. As a business it needs to be profitable to STAY in business. It is NOT in business to spend 15 years environmental navel gazing, or fending off constant lawsuits, or submitting to platoons of governmental goons demanding to inspect, regulate, subpeona…..

And the sublime irony is that their product is so clean, green and progressive that it is mind-blowing..

Also, in Nevada they are closer to their lithium deposits, no need to have raw materials crossing state lines into CA (God knows what kind of regulatory onslaught THAT would trigger.).

JUST SAYIN” 😉

By: californianative

californianative — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:14:18 +0000

Just this morning to pick my mother up in her new middle class neighborhood ( she left the People’s Republic of California last year and brought her money with her) in the Research Triangle of NC. Low and behold a nice new black, sleek Tesla driving into the neighborhood! This is about the 5th one I’ve seen out here. So Green! Of course, most of our electricity comes from coal fired plants. We are laundering coal into ” clean energy”!! LOL. Beat that Kommiefornia!!

By: Queeg

Queeg — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:52:01 +0000

You were star struck. She was the cutest gal. Wined and dined her, movies, plays, candy and flowers.

She acted so distant, detached at times, but…but so appreciative too..a peck here and there on the cheek, a squeeze of the hand.

Then all of sudden….

She was gone!

It had to be momma’s fault-

By: Dancquill

Dancquill — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:52:31 +0000

The SF Chronical says “One of California’s biggest hurdles,” reported the Chronicle, “was the state’s extensive environmental review process, which often takes years for big construction projects. Musk explicitly pointed to that issue when discussing Gigafactory plans, saying it made the state an ‘improbable’ location. In response, California officials discussed finding ways to speed up the process, something they did last year for Sacramento’s basketball arena.” What the Chronical forgets to point out is that ONLY government crony socialist projects get the royal treatment. California loves great big make work and spend taxpayer dollars like so much waste paper.. Just as long as private sector efforts are not so granted favor.