Just keep releasing rumours about crazy products in the pipe line:

1. TV you talk at. Check, Samsung already made one. Anyone buy it?
2. Watch with battery life about 1/1000th of a normal one. In the pipeline...
3. ??????

... is what's keeping my wife safe and alive...

Work bottom-up, don't approach it top-down.

Bull fucking shit. Still want to believe this liar? Do your own research. Google "intangible drilling costs" and "oil depletion allowance" (and there are more, if you care to dig deeper). These are *NOT* "afforded to all kinds of industries." Any attempt to claim otherwise is a BIG FAT LIE.

"A tax deduction and a government subsidy arenâ(TM)t the same." No, they are exactly the same.

And GM's loan payback more than offsets, blah blah blah...

These are investments in the economy that pay off in more way that mere bank-style loans.

Thought I made clear that such people should start complaining about the massive cash handouts to the oil industry first.

Oil companies aren't getting loans--they're getting huge piles of cash for free. If those who believe that Government has no right to pick a company to loan money to, they should start with the loans that don't get paid back.

Apparently his boss is Terry Childs...

> They are already practical from a use standpoint, now it's just cost. My commute is only 10 miles and my wife's is only 5, so we'll be prime candidates.

You might want to consider something like a Nissan Leaf. I drove one as a rental for a month when someone rear-ended my Prius. Really nice. Plugged it in whenever I arrived home. No other concerns.

> I'm saying that your usage of the quick-charge stations is completely dependent on their survival.

Well this is just silly. Most places don't have them, and they are only of value for long day trips, yet Tesla hasn't had any difficulty selling their cars... I don't need to be the 100th person to note here that most people rarely need to drive over 250 miles a day, and that there are simple solutions when such people do need them. I estimate that of my family's two vehicles, one of them (30k odometer) has never been more than 100 miles from home and the other has only about 2-3% of its miles in this scenario...

Why is there some assumption that an EV must outperform gas cars in every single use case?

Nor electrical outlets.

You shouldn't be surprised at being labeled a "troll" when you talk about Tesla's demise as a fait accompli...

Think Sweden. Plenty of trees. Swedes like it when people think of their country as high tech, but mining and forestry are still much bigger industries there...

I'm sorry you're Canadian! ;)

Of course now you could gather up all your loonies and toonies and head south and buy your bicycle for even less, given the current exchange rate...