Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Buys Bitcoin, bans bitcoin for Tesla purchases because of the Carbon Footprint, praises Dogecoin, calls for a Carbon tax.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk renews call for carbon tax
‘It’s not like we shouldn’t have carbon-generated things, there should be a price on this stuff,’ he recently said on a podcast.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk renewed calls for a carbon tax Thursday, a suggestion he said was rejected by the Biden Administration because it was “politically difficult.”
“It is high time there was a carbon tax!,” Musk, the head of Tesla, the electric car company, and SpaceX, simply tweeted.
Musk’s comment came a day after he said Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin for vehicle purchases because of concerns over the environmental cost of bitcoin mining.
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Read more: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-carbon-tax
Can’t help wondering if Musk is risking a letter from the SEC. Comments which cause the price of commodities to swing wildly in different directions are sometimes interpreted as deliberate market manipulation, though I don’t know enough about securities law to give an opinion about whether Musk crossed the line.
As for Musk’s call for a carbon tax, here’s a thought Elon. How about you improve the affordability of your product, so you don’t need government help to sell more Teslas? In my opinion a call for a carbon tax is a heartless attack on poor people, an admission the alternative to fossil fuel is too expensive to thrive without government coercion.
Fine, he can pay it for everyone else, in perpetuity. Does he have kids? Slap it on them, too
Musk has 6 children. His first wife had 6 sons, one of whom died as an infant. He has been married and divorced several times. his current squeez id Claire Elise Boucher whose stage name is Grimes. She had a son whom they named “X AE A-XII” after the original “X Æ A-12” was rejected by the State of California because it contained nonalphabetic characters.
Cool, the whole gang of them can finance this leftist stupidity and no one else will pay a single thin dime! Those who come up with this shyt should be paying for it and no one else.
From the above article: “Musk’s comment came a day after he said Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin for vehicle purchases because of concerns over the environmental cost of bitcoin mining.”
Yet. Elon Musk—principled guy that he is—has absolutely no problem with his company, Tesla, buying USD$1.5 billion in Bitcoin (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1point5-billion-in-bitcoin.html ) despite “the environmental cost of bitcoin mining”.
Rules for thee, but none for me . . . anyone surprised at all by this hypocrisy?
A carbon tax is a super nova tax, about 14 billions years late.
But the same can be said of lithium and cobalt, which Elon Musk has not demanded a tax on.
I think this is clearly a racist and supremacist attitude toward the periodic table, don’t you?
The people demand Elon Musk take a flying leap.
Payable to…..
Perhaps Musk should shutdown his factories and rocket ships
he relies on blood minerals (cobalt from west africa& Lithium from chile etc) but worse still his cars use large amounts of rear earth minerals from china
as well as oil and gas to make most of the materials and power the mining companies
Then he sends rocket ships into space that use Liquid Natural gas
what a hypocrite
anything to make his ego bigger and his bank balance even bigger
Alright, I still wonder the significance of Dogecoin. But I agree with him in the carbon tax. I gradually become more and more realized that demand and rule work better than lip service and mere encouragement. Take car makers as examples. There is no denying that car emission is a key contributor to greenhouse. With the regulation and punish, the car makers have to roll on hybrid cars with clean energy. Audi r8 is the typical product. So sometimes bans and laws matters !