Comment Re:Let's re-write that headline, shall we? (Score 1) 28
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You simply cannot make solar financially viable there.
What makes solar financially un-viable in Austin? I live a long ways from Texas so there might be something really obvious here that I'm missing. I know the solar power arguments are older than the hills at this point (I remember roof top solar panels from many decades ago) but I'm interested in what about that location makes it doomed to not work out.
Or is there just no way for Tesla to make it financially viable? Could a more honest company pull it off in a different way?
You know, there are these things called yard sales and flea markets where you can get forks, or entire sets, for less than what you pay on Amazon.
Instead of an itemized list of what you bought and how much each item cost, all you'll get is a final bill. Pay it or else.
Sound stupid? So is this.
Have you listened to the way people talk? I wouldn't want to listen to it either.
What a weird
You're looking at it from the point of view of the bank robber, aren't you? (Instead of from the point of view of all the people who didn't rob the bank but still somehow had their locations leaked to the government.)
Did I guess right?
Car manufacturers should be taken to the woodshed over this awful decision.
Why not the car buyers? The manufacturers are only responding to what buyers want.
That could well be a chicken-and-egg problem. Are the buyers buying what's available because it's available, or are the manufacturers making it because the buyers actually asked for it? I'm not aware of any Equinox driver anywhere who ever complained about it not being tall enough (or it being short enough to make it unnecessarily difficult to run over small people) yet Chevy raised the hood anyways.
The other problem is that the auto manufacturers see a distorted picture of car buyers. New cars are too expensive for a large fraction of all drivers; many drivers won't ever buy a brand new car. New car dealers are selling to people with more money, and making decisions around what those more affluent people might want in their cars - or more so are telling such people what they should want.
There's no future in time travel.