J
jbcarioca
Guest
CANDIDLY YOU ARE MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT. There is not an 'Cold War' against Tesla. The world is not monolithic and conspiracies mostly do not exist. There are strong differences between interests.I disagree. No amount of bribes to the financial industry will satisfy them - my opinion is that the financial industry giants are blind to the dangers of global warming, looking only at protecting short term profits - similarly the not scientific random sampling I have done among well-to-do acquaintances and random people I interviewed on the spot is that they are at best dubious of claims of global warming being caused by human behavior. Nothing too surprising there as most people, especially "successful" people delegate responsibilities for most everything to specialists and people they know and trust. So this is the egg and chicken vicious circle.
Let there be no doubt, the US financial industry is in a full blown cold war phase with Tesla, as has been now clearly documented. This is also the reason Elon has chosen his approach, (1) no PR because the media is controlled by the FUD so anything Tesla says will be distorted and never corrected (like the NYTimes hatchet job that was completely debunked by Tesla, as they had the exact details of that writer's driving around the Tesla SC parking area to drain the battery, etc). Also (2) why Elon chose Shanghai China as its first foreign Giga Factory - this is the master move that enabled Tesla to become immune to Wall Street as they now have enough cash to be essentially self funded thanks to the huge Giga Shanghai margins and production.
To emphasize the point, Tesla doesn't need the ratings agencies imprimatur since they don't need to raise capital - the FUD can only depress TSLA's SP but that doesn't hurt Tesla, tho it may hurt TSLA shareholders who trade the stock or its derivatives. Long term it does not matter to Tesla, which is why Elon twitted "Believe in the future" (implying not necessarily the short term, alas for many of us on TMC).
The only sane approach would be for our government (ie we the taxpayers) help out the oil & gas industries employees (not their CEOs or investors, they have enough $ saved, and really ought to be claw back taxed for willful malfeasance/ loss of property, health, lives and despoiling of our environment). Not going to happen as far as I can see, until something drastic happens.
The entire discussion prior to this political diatribe was about how to optimize the system. Specifically, the value to ratings, which actually has little to do with raising funds.
I am responding to this post as if it were serious. My grammar should indicate I do not regard it so.
It is sad that you, frequent creator of valuable comment, choose to ignore facts and issue raw polemics.
This is my last post on that subject, and I shall be surprised if my post may be regarded as excessive.