rev up your engines the United States is denying Tesla
tariff exemptions for his Tesla Model parts he made a big blowout deal with
his original Tesla that he had the largest factory in North America that he
built that he's gonna make all that stuff and then what happened the model
threes kept dragging they weren't making them they weren't making them and then
they finally said they're gonna make them they tried making them the factory
had so many glitches they ended up building them in the parking lot in
tents, so since then he said he's building a factory in China to make them
which kind of you know takes back on some of his ideas, an exemption on
tariffs for certain of the Chinese built model three parts the model threes is
lowest priced ones the US is denying it well I kind of agree with it if you ask
me because trying to get this whole, oh I got this big Factory in United States
and then he's getting all this stuff from China that he's making in China and
sending her over here he's been trying to cut costs for the stuff
because let's face it the things are overpriced, the fancy ones are over
$90,000 there's only so many people that are gonna do it and when he came out
with his model three all the people that were buying them they're having to pay
40 something for the model that they were making and so it wasn't even what
he said and the quality was garbage, when you're starting up a new thing and
you're having problems with production and quality starting to fire people and
cutting costs of stuff that doesn't sound like the right way to go about it
myself, he's gonna be in a bind as far as I'm concerned all these companies are
starting to make electric cars in China take Volvo they're now a Chinese owned
company they're coming out with an electric car soon and they were pulling
the same kind of nonsense they said something like, oh it's going to be a
$40,000 car or whatever but then their one year the first year they come out
it's like a collector's item and each one of those starts at 15,000 above
whatever the list price was so it's going to be a price thing not just well
here's the electric technology electric cars are much simpler than gasoline and
diesel cars there are ignition systems there are transmissions they
and they have electric motors that drive the wheels they're much simpler vehicle
so anybody can create them that has the technology build them rather quickly the
way the Chinese have gone you just take a little bit of forecasting on the
future they're gonna be making those things cheaper in China and they're
gonna be able to undercut anybody the fact that he's got a factory he's making
out there and now he's trying to get a break on parts that are made in China
he's bringing them to the United States if they're gonna put a tariff on the
Chinese cars that they're gonna be sending over here they haven't sent them
yet that's something to come in the future who knows what will happen there
but you can't take the pieces of them and bring them over everybody's got to
be treated fairly and that thing you can't give an exemption to one guy who
at the same time is building a factory in China I don't have any sympathy for
somebody attempting to you know bring stuff in and getting the sweetheart deal
for his own one he's probably gonna be moving a bunch of his production to
China and the factories that he's gonna be building there it's still a
futuristic thing there's no infrastructure for it it takes too long
to recharge them like the video that I did a couple weeks ago on the zero
electric motorcycle that is made in California the thing at a highway range
at 60 miles an hour of only 55 miles before you ran out of electricity these
things still have a long way to go before they become accepted you take
where I live here in Houston sometimes we have brownouts in the summer cuz
everybody's running their air conditioners what if there was three
million people recharging their cars at the same time I mean the grid just
couldn't take us that's just I even talked to Canadian friends of mine and
they said the same thing they said our power grid couldn't take all these
Canadians in Toronto if they all started plugging electric cars in power grid is
made from decades ago and it couldn't handle all this new input when unless
they're gonna build the infrastructure up and nobody's looking to building that
infrastructure up the way our society set up this today look at oil refineries
in the United States there hasn't been a new one built in
decades and decades and decades because the new ones they have to meet special
anti-pollution specs so they just keep fixing the old ones up in Deer and in
Houston outside an outskirt stores having these fires all the time and
they're so old yeah things are break you know those lines are corroded
from the corrosive chemicals but they're not gonna build a new one because then
they have to meet all these specifications to cost them so much
money they just keep running the old ones and it's the same thing with
electricity I don't see anybody building any electric infrastructure all over the
place nobody's spending money in this country on infrastructure and if you add
another layer on the electric infrastructure of all these electric
cars they have to be recharged things are gonna have to be radically changed
and I don't see anything radically changed in the United States, so if you
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