Tesla gets a market advantage because of the tax credit.133743Hokie wrote:What? You think Tesla jacks up the price of their car because the buyer gets a tax credit? That's nonsense! They are not going to do anything to reduce their exposure to the max number of potential customers. Why do you think they developed the model 3?BigDave wrote:If the government offered a $1 credit to buy Snickers candy bars, Mars may not see that DIRECTLY, but they could raise their price by $1 and anyone who could afford it before can still afford it. So they would see it INDIRECTLY. It's the same thing with Tesla - they don't get it DIRECTLY, but they can charge more so they get it INDIRECTLY.133743Hokie wrote:The $7,500 is a tax credit for the purchaser, not a payment to the car manufacturer. Tesla doesn't see the $7,500. The tax credit does make the purchase of the car more attractive, hence why people see the inequity in the subsidy for EVs.BigDave wrote:According to Wikipedia, he passed 200K sales in March 2017. At $7500 each, that's $1.5 billion, or, one-third of the market cap of Tesla.133743Hokie wrote:He hasn't built Tesla on subsidies! That's pure nonsense. He hasn't even sold enough vehicles yet to even have that make an impact on the business. You think he believes he has surpassed every other EV manufacturer and wants to get rid of the subsidy now to hold them back? Nonsense.
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Buffet was a huge supported of Obama and was willing to say all the right things to support the progressive social agenda, in exchange for the Fed's continuing to block the construction of pipelines to move oil from the Dakotas to the refineries. Why? Well Buffet's companies own the railroads that move a lot of that oil since there are no pipelines and Buffet's companies build all the tanker cars that carry that oil and when new EPA requirements for double walled tanker cars got put in place...Buffet's companies were well positioned to get all the work to retrofit the cars they had built to be in compliance with those new regulations.Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Buffet comes off as the kindly older gentleman but in the end he is a powerful businessman who like Getty, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, etc paid well for their influence and profited handsomely from those expenditures.
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133743Hokie wrote:They use those cars to help improve their corporate fuel efficiency numbers, so yes they matter.HokieJoe wrote:133743Hokie wrote:She says the USG is subsidizing SpaceX. That is not true.HokieJoe wrote:133743Hokie wrote:Hatchet job piece from a Tea Party lady that frankly doesn't know a thing about what she is writing about.
Please do offer details on where she is wrong. That $7500 subsidy should be shiite-canned. Yesterday.
She has a bone to pick about electric vehicle subsidies. Fine. Interesting that there is no mention of the US car makers getting subsidies for their electric cars. No mention of the tax breaks and subsidies for hybrid vehicles in their early stages.
She never mentions that federal dollars have funded private and university R&D forever.
Bottom line is she doesn't like Elon Musk and has focused in on him with a click bait article.
The difference is, Toyota would still be in business without Prius. GM is different because of their legacy of mismanagement and crushing labor issues; but very little of their business depends upon the Volt.
Not really. They could offer stripped down petrol models that get the same fuel economy as hybrid/electric cars. But then, they wouldn't get the $7500 tax credit.
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YepVienna_Hokie wrote:Buffet was a huge supported of Obama and was willing to say all the right things to support the progressive social agenda, in exchange for the Fed's continuing to block the construction of pipelines to move oil from the Dakotas to the refineries. Why? Well Buffet's companies own the railroads that move a lot of that oil since there are no pipelines and Buffet's companies build all the tanker cars that carry that oil and when new EPA requirements for double walled tanker cars got put in place...Buffet's companies were well positioned to get all the work to retrofit the cars they had built to be in compliance with those new regulations.Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Buffet comes off as the kindly older gentleman but in the end he is a powerful businessman who like Getty, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, etc paid well for their influence and profited handsomely from those expenditures.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/ ... -favo.aspx
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And say is all he did. Buffett magically avoided the tax hikes he claimed to lust after.HokieJoe wrote:YepVienna_Hokie wrote:Buffet was a huge supported of Obama and was willing to say all the right things to support the progressive social agenda, in exchange for the Fed's continuing to block the construction of pipelines to move oil from the Dakotas to the refineries. Why? Well Buffet's companies own the railroads that move a lot of that oil since there are no pipelines and Buffet's companies build all the tanker cars that carry that oil and when new EPA requirements for double walled tanker cars got put in place...Buffet's companies were well positioned to get all the work to retrofit the cars they had built to be in compliance with those new regulations.Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Buffet comes off as the kindly older gentleman but in the end he is a powerful businessman who like Getty, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, etc paid well for their influence and profited handsomely from those expenditures.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/ ... -favo.aspx
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles ... ision.html
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Yep, it's helped them sell a whopping 200k cars (according to Biggie) in 5 years.Florida Hokie wrote:Tesla gets a market advantage because of the tax credit.133743Hokie wrote:What? You think Tesla jacks up the price of their car because the buyer gets a tax credit? That's nonsense! They are not going to do anything to reduce their exposure to the max number of potential customers. Why do you think they developed the model 3?BigDave wrote:If the government offered a $1 credit to buy Snickers candy bars, Mars may not see that DIRECTLY, but they could raise their price by $1 and anyone who could afford it before can still afford it. So they would see it INDIRECTLY. It's the same thing with Tesla - they don't get it DIRECTLY, but they can charge more so they get it INDIRECTLY.133743Hokie wrote:The $7,500 is a tax credit for the purchaser, not a payment to the car manufacturer. Tesla doesn't see the $7,500. The tax credit does make the purchase of the car more attractive, hence why people see the inequity in the subsidy for EVs.BigDave wrote:According to Wikipedia, he passed 200K sales in March 2017. At $7500 each, that's $1.5 billion, or, one-third of the market cap of Tesla.133743Hokie wrote:He hasn't built Tesla on subsidies! That's pure nonsense. He hasn't even sold enough vehicles yet to even have that make an impact on the business. You think he believes he has surpassed every other EV manufacturer and wants to get rid of the subsidy now to hold them back? Nonsense.
Toyota, Chevy, etc. all got the same advantage.
I understand you guys don't like subsidies. But the subsidies haven't resulted in $1.5B in market cap as Biggie suggests. That's just nonsense, and if you can't see it then there is nothing else to be written.
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No one would buy the stripped down carsHokieJoe wrote:133743Hokie wrote:They use those cars to help improve their corporate fuel efficiency numbers, so yes they matter.HokieJoe wrote:133743Hokie wrote:She says the USG is subsidizing SpaceX. That is not true.HokieJoe wrote:133743Hokie wrote:Hatchet job piece from a Tea Party lady that frankly doesn't know a thing about what she is writing about.
Please do offer details on where she is wrong. That $7500 subsidy should be shiite-canned. Yesterday.
She has a bone to pick about electric vehicle subsidies. Fine. Interesting that there is no mention of the US car makers getting subsidies for their electric cars. No mention of the tax breaks and subsidies for hybrid vehicles in their early stages.
She never mentions that federal dollars have funded private and university R&D forever.
Bottom line is she doesn't like Elon Musk and has focused in on him with a click bait article.
The difference is, Toyota would still be in business without Prius. GM is different because of their legacy of mismanagement and crushing labor issues; but very little of their business depends upon the Volt.
Not really. They could offer stripped down petrol models that get the same fuel economy as hybrid/electric cars. But then, they wouldn't get the $7500 tax credit.
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Says you. They would be priced a lot less. Price matters for a rather large segment of the market.133743Hokie wrote: No one would buy the stripped down cars
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The tax credit phases out after 200k per manufacturer.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/plug-in- ... nd-irc-30d
Tesla's credit has been exhausted. The Auto industry is rapidly moving to the EV format. Other manufacturers who haven't yet fulfilled their 200k credit will still get it, but tesla won't see any benefit.
I think taxing Carbon as Exxon, Bloomberg, and others have proposed is a better incentive that this $7500 credit. New cars sales are rapidly converting to Electric. A Carbon tax might get more people out of their obsolete gas guzzlers sooner and into better new cars that are EV. If the US weren't running such a deficit, something neither Us party has any interest in curtailing, I'd favor the $7500 rebate versus the punitive tax. They don't, so I don't.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/plug-in- ... nd-irc-30d
Tesla's credit has been exhausted. The Auto industry is rapidly moving to the EV format. Other manufacturers who haven't yet fulfilled their 200k credit will still get it, but tesla won't see any benefit.
I think taxing Carbon as Exxon, Bloomberg, and others have proposed is a better incentive that this $7500 credit. New cars sales are rapidly converting to Electric. A Carbon tax might get more people out of their obsolete gas guzzlers sooner and into better new cars that are EV. If the US weren't running such a deficit, something neither Us party has any interest in curtailing, I'd favor the $7500 rebate versus the punitive tax. They don't, so I don't.
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What are you bitching about? Musk didn't create the subsidies. If he can benefit from them, that's just good business. I have it on good authority that using available legal means to further your business and create profit is what smart business men do.awesome guy wrote:I'm pointing out the stupidity in DC's retort. "But, but, but he says the freebies should end!"[While having the unexercised ability to end them himself]Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Do you disagree, or do you think we should take away all subsidies?
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I think he's lying to dopes who then cry "but he doesn't want all of that free money!" as a laughable retort against him having all of that free money. He's smart for lying to the weak minded who eat that stuff up.HokieFanDC wrote:What are you bitching about? Musk didn't create the subsidies. If he can benefit from them, that's just good business. I have it on good authority that using available legal means to further your business and create profit is what smart business men do.awesome guy wrote:I'm pointing out the stupidity in DC's retort. "But, but, but he says the freebies should end!"[While having the unexercised ability to end them himself]Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Do you disagree, or do you think we should take away all subsidies?
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"You think he's lying" isn't an argument. It's a result of your utter dislike for Musk. It's not his free money, it's free money that all automakers get. And in the electric/hybrid world, the subsidies are a bigger advantage to buyers of a mid-priced Prius/Bolt/Leaf, and less to buyers of Tesla's. Taking away subsidies will hurt Prius sales, more than it will hurt Tesla sales.awesome guy wrote:I think he's lying to dopes who then cry "but he doesn't want all of that free money!" as a laughable retort against him having all of that free money. He's smart for lying to the weak minded who eat that stuff up.HokieFanDC wrote:What are you bitching about? Musk didn't create the subsidies. If he can benefit from them, that's just good business. I have it on good authority that using available legal means to further your business and create profit is what smart business men do.awesome guy wrote:I'm pointing out the stupidity in DC's retort. "But, but, but he says the freebies should end!"[While having the unexercised ability to end them himself]Hokie CPA wrote:Warren Buffet is welcome to give as much as he likes to the US government. If he's so concerned, he should give more than the minimum.
Do you disagree, or do you think we should take away all subsidies?
Calling Musk a leech for taking subisides, but not minding other companies getting subsidies, is hypocritical. So, do you have an ideological issue with subsidies, and think all subsidies to to "leeches", or do you just pick and choose who is a leech, and who is an honorable subsidy recipient?
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The credit BEGINS to phase out after 200k US SALES.fatman wrote:The tax credit phases out after 200k per manufacturer.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/plug-in- ... nd-irc-30d
Tesla's credit has been exhausted. The Auto industry is rapidly moving to the EV format. Other manufacturers who haven't yet fulfilled their 200k credit will still get it, but tesla won't see any benefit.
Telsa won't cross that line until sometime next year most likely, and it will take over/up to 18mo to phase out.
I know you're probably just trolling, but I hope you understand that energy production is about more than automobiles. That sounds like a great way to cripple the economy.fatman wrote:I think taxing Carbon as Exxon, Bloomberg, and others have proposed is a better incentive that this $7500 credit. New cars sales are rapidly converting to Electric. A Carbon tax might get more people out of their obsolete gas guzzlers sooner and into better new cars that are EV. If the US weren't running such a deficit, something neither Us party has any interest in curtailing, I'd favor the $7500 rebate versus the punitive tax. They don't, so I don't.
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As long as gasoline is selling for less than $6 per gallon in The States, gas guzzlers are nowhere near ever becoming obsolete. Not to mention, EVs come with their own enviro-baggage. Batteries have to be charged and that puts pressure on energy companies to increase their output. And eventually all those batteries will die and have to be disposed. These aren't the kinds of batteries you toss into a garbage can.
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I think motor boats are about to be popular again with low fuel costs and high kayak costs.Hokie CPA wrote:As long as gasoline is selling for less than $6 per gallon in The States, gas guzzlers are nowhere near ever becoming obsolete. Not to mention, EVs come with their own enviro-baggage. Batteries have to be charged and that puts pressure on energy companies to increase their output. And eventually all those batteries will die and have to be disposed. These aren't the kinds of batteries you toss into a garbage can.
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Tesla seeks to raise $1.5 bln to fund Model 3 production
http://m.nasdaq.com/article/tesla-seeks ... 0807-00182