WUWT reader “bouldersolar” writes in with this and a couple of photos, which I’ve combined into one.
In Colorado I got back almost $50,000 from the state and federal governments to buy this car.
Before you think this is just too ridiculous to be true, read this article.
This stems from a comment he made a couple of days ago on WUWT:
Speaking of annoying people with your Tesla. As a Tesla owner in Boulder Colorado I have a bumper sticker on it that says” Environmentalists took money from the poor to pay me to buy this car”
I am amazed at the violent reaction I get from all those Boulder peace loving non violent progressives to this message.
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Nikola Tesla was one of the 20th century great scientists and inovators, but he was nearly destroyed by Edison’s desire for monopoly of the electricity supply.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/Nikola%20Tesla.htm
It is time that Tesla is give the rightful place in the American text-books.
That’s great! Thanks, Anthony and Bouldersolar. I hope you don’t have to make up that discount in fixing keyed doors and such, especially considering the difficulty in self-control these “non-violent” peace-nicks seem to have. And heaven forbid you have to deal with an NYPD OWS “paint job”. But, I wouldn’t put it past the warm-fuzzy, what’s-so-funny-about-peace-love-and-understanding contingent.
All I want to know, is the car all it’s cracked up to be?
I’m surprised you haven’t already found a large scratch or dent in it.
Narcissists react badly to criticism.
Classic Robin Hood…Steal from the poorr and give to the rich 🙂
It would be funny if I wasn’t borrowing money to pay my electric bill. I was/ am on the “level pay” plan but my bill increased so much last year, I have a balloon payment of over $700.00. God bless deregulation and Mother California.
PERFECT!
I don’t blame this guy one bit for taking advantage of this rediculous rebate. I would too.
Well on second thought, actually I wouldn’t, there is no way to get around the fact that its still an electric car. You couldn’t pay me enough to buy one.
Similar to how the German feed-in tariff of 3.5 cent/kWh rips off the poor to pay for the solar installations of home owners. A form of degressive taxation. It’s funny how the Greens never protest against this.
BTW; I’ve repeatedly stated that a Watt-peak of solar installation is about 2.40 EUR ATM here in Germany, and accidentally I found a chart that shows the price development over the last 5 years and comfirms my data. Prices have fallen by 50% over the last 5 years.
http://www.solaranlage.eu/photovoltaik/preise
It’s not a Moore’s Law but economies of scale, globalisation and process improvements that are the reasons for this, but anyhow, I expect it to continue with 50% per 5 years; it did that for two decades now.
My car is apolitical. I don’t want some angry jerk to take out his political frustrations on it.
A breakdown of where the money came from would be interesting. For example rebate, tax deduction, how much from state, how much from federal, etc.?
You might want to avoid any of the Occupy locations right now, I hear there is a lot of anger in being displaced this morning…
Lolworthy, ridiculous and entirely predictable. But then, it makes me wonder a bit – taking into account the less-than-green sources of electricity used to power this thingamajig, wouldn’t a Lotus Elise (especially in the new, cheaper and less planet-warming 1.6 litre version) actually score better on the eco-meter?
Drive an electric car up and down a mountain road near Boulder ane tell us how far you get before it needs a battery recahrge. If there’s a fast electric-recharge station anywhere around before the battery dies, let us know how long it takes before you an get moving again.
In the words of Arthur Guiness….BRILLIANT!
And to think people wonder why the economy is so screwed up.
Nice car, one-third subsidised by the state. Great, it’s like being a politician! Does it have a horn that blasts “Get out of the way, peasants!!” as well?
So – how is the car? A fast golf-cart? or worthy of the poor’s investment?
While I appreciate the comedy found in environmentalist/liberal financials, I could not pull the drigger on this. We all paid for this. You are welcome.
Robin Hood “took from the rich and gave to the poor” (keeping a bit for himself :^).
Our “environmentalist” politicos take from both the rich and poor who pay taxes and give to the politically-connected who are clever enough to cloak their greed under the “save the Earth” banner.
The “environmentalist” politicos and their politically-connected friends in companies and big labor are uninhibited by their total lack of understanding of basic physics and economics and engineering and elementary ethics (and they keep on getting re-elected using political donations and influence peddling and getting richer off the public dole. 🙁 Can you spell Solyndra?
Ira Glickstein
I drive a Lincoln Towncar, much to the scorn of the greenies. But they seem envious.
The “poor” don’t pay much if anything in income taxes. The shrinking middle class OTOH…
Tesla’a greatest problem was having J.P.Morgan as his “backer”. Edison may have envied and despised him for his inventiveness (Thomas A. was a notorious empiricist without much else than trials ad nauseam to back his “genius”.) Westinghouse may have given him short shrift for the AC patents (but the pittance was still not bad $$ for the day) but Morgan, upon finding out that Tesla wanted to transmit electricity so as to be readily available to ANY user….that was blasphemy in JP’s book and he pulled the plug (sorry about that…lol) on Wardenclyffe and poor old Nikola went on to pigeon-feeding and theorizing about the number 3.
That’s neither a sticker nor located on his bumper. Given that level of “dumb”, I presume this person won the lottery or inherited a great deal of money. Anyone who thinks that “paper taped to rear window” is a “bumper sticker” could not possibly have personally earned enough to buy one of these cars.