Somehow I missed this, but I must respond. Mark's post is a particularly egregious manipulation of the truth.
On Sun, 8/17/14, Mark Abramowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: 100+ U.S. National 'Drive Electric Week' Events > Planned 9/15-21 > To: "robert winfield" <[email protected]>, "Electric Vehicle > Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "brucedp5" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:26 PM > > I guess the new question > on Telsa cost is how to take account of environmental costs > since they are SEEKING AN EXEMPTION from ENVIRONMENTAL laws > to build a factory. > In the article I read from the LA Times, there isn't any indication whatsoever that Tesla is seeking anything. This is all being offered by the state to remain competitive with other states. Tesla has options. They don't need California. California needs Tesla. Also, Mark seems to imply that Tesla wants to be environmentally irresponsible. Is it not obvious that would be commercial suicide for them? They are in fact NOT seeking exemption from any actual environmental PROTECTIONS - only the extra review process that is unique to California. Tesla could probably teach the reviewers quite a lot about how to build batteries in an environmentally responsible fashion. But that extra process slows things down in California and Tesla needs to move quickly. So California is acting to avoid the most ironic failure of public policy in decades. California is arguably the leader in environmentalism and the home of the most environmentally significant automaker in history. Yet they are in danger of losing thousands of new jobs at the new gigafactory due to their own environmental review process. If those jobs go elsewhere and the gigafactory becomes a shining example of how to do things right, every politician and activist that stood in the way will be directly responsible. Up to now I've regarded Mark as someone who is conscientious, but has a different view from mine on how best to approach green transportation. Now trust enters the picture. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140818/950b4ab4/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
