Comments on: Elon Musk’s Hyperloop project races ahead https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:27:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Gore https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-118012 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:27:53 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-118012 Musk is this new century’s greatest scam artist so far. Expert at manipulating the current techno-utopia/techno-mania he must be laughing his ass off when he goes home every night. Tesla has yet to make a DIME. Ditto space-x, ditto the tesla battery bank thingy (anyone remember that? it SO 2014…) Musks real expertise is recognizing and seizing the moment (and the cash) long before any of his stupid technology-bedazzled marks gets a clue…

]]> By: Ulysses Uhaul https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-118003 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:40:54 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-118003 In reply to desmond.

Desi,

You forgot your backups….slat water crocs!

]]> By: eck https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-118001 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 02:33:21 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-118001 In reply to Hank de Carbonel.

Of course the taxpayers are required to pony up. That’s Musk’s modus operandi. I have the “visions”, you pay (for a lot) of the risk. Tesla (bought by wealthier folks) would be out of business in no time if it weren’t for taxpayer (all of us)subsidies. This guy might be brilliant, but he’s also a rent-seeker of the 1st degree

]]> By: desmond https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-118000 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 01:59:53 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-118000 Seems like a natural for deportation. One way ticket over the new fence and across the piranha stocked moat. Arriba,Arriba.

]]> By: Hank de Carbonel https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-117999 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:50:11 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-117999 I am confused, Hawthorne Ca is along hwy 5 in the San Joaquin Valley? Or is it good thinking to seperate the two components? Again the taxpayer through academia pays for the musings of Mr. Musk. Why not the private sector, I can think of one reason, others would follow.

]]> By: Bill - San Jose https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-117998 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:31:04 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-117998 In reply to Steve Ly.

Steve, please don’t compare Elon to the French. Being part French, I am personally offended by my own heritage. Keep this from being a train to nowhere man … please!!!

]]> By: Bill - San Jose https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-117997 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:29:05 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-117997 I love this guy. I love his efforts. I don’t approve of tax rebates to keep his companies running.

It is illegal. Again, I am a huuuge fan of this man. I love his vision.

Gotta lose the government subsidies before I can approve of anything else.

]]> By: Steve Ly https://calwatchdog.com/2015/08/31/elon-musks-hyperloop-project-races-ahead/#comment-117995 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:32:36 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=82817#comment-117995 Hyperloop proponents talk a good game, but after a few years I predict that the test track will resemble this landmark in the south of France: http://googlesightseeing.com/2013/10/frances-aerotrain/

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