I do find the Tesla Truck a desirable option, not because it’s an electric vehicle, but because it’s armored, and would be a good addition to my lifestyle.  It would have come in handy a couple of times last week.  The bulletproof windows for small arms fire and the stainless steel body would be great things to have.  But Tesla is a good car company. Aside from the new Tesla Truck, they are fancy golf carts with reasonable market options for a gasoline economy.  And they have carved out a nice little niche for themselves, supported by just enough public interest to be interesting.  The drawback for me is all the charging, and the frequency of it.  Around town, for the stuff under 20 miles, the Tesla Truck would be great for my lifestyle.  For anything over those short stints, charging becomes a problem.  I know where most of the Tesla charging stations are within a few hundred miles of my home, and they are pretty well thought out, so long as there aren’t a lot of other Tesla drivers looking to charge their vehicles simultaneously.  So, as long as Tesla vehicles stay in a small market where they are rare on the road, buying one is much more attractive than if they were common and had to wait in line to charge their vehicles during long-distance travel.  It’s hard to beat the way travel is now, where fuel stops take under 15 minutes.  We have a very busy economy, which makes sense because it is the world’s most productive.  So, anything added to that economy by way of transportation needs to observe the rules of the game, which is speed.  And electric vehicles don’t have it.  They take too long to charge, and you must charge them too often.  Otherwise, I would say that the Tesla Truck is a superior vehicle.

But don’t say I didn’t say so on this electric vehicle market problem that has hit us, because of government intervention.  The Biden administration, thinking it knew better than the consumers, imposed all these regulations on car manufacturers to make more electric vehicles in their war against fossil fuels, and now all these companies, like Ford, have produced electric cars that are sitting on lots that nobody wants, and panic is setting in.  All the major car companies listened to the Biden administration when it was declared by such and such date, within this present decade, that all cars would be electric.  Of course, we know that Biden didn’t come up with all this nonsense on his own.  Rather, he was told what to do by the global World Economic Forum communists and their cult of love for Mother Earth, an insidious love that would make Norman Bates jealous.  Their beliefs should be considered technically insane, nobody should be listening to them to construct any public policy.  This is a consistent theme with these global lefties; they are authoritarian types who view government as a kingly mechanism and everyone is their subject who must honor every kind of edict constructed by the court no matter how dumb it is.  People are to do what they are told and to appease their king.  And if that king, or kings, decide that people should be driving fancy golf carts, that is just how it will be.  So, a complete dedication to the EV marketplace was imposed by the American government through a stolen election, and like a bunch of dumb fools trying to appease their insane king, the car companies tried to make a switch to all EV cars to meet the target dates set by the government. 

But that’s not how it works, not anywhere.  There is a reason most of the world’s economies are not very effective: they have socialist and communist governments that impose too many constraints on their financial opportunities.  Constraints take time, and they cost money.  They make bureaucrats and administrators happy by feeling like they are doing work when all they do is slow things down, which then holds down a country’s GDP.  The government in America doesn’t like Tesla cars for all kinds of reasons, mainly because of the way Elon Musk has built his factories, which are largely automated.  Automated factories don’t need unionized labor that can threaten to strike every five seconds and sleep on the job while watching Netflix movies—so big labor combined with big government is often the same.  Communist labor unions influence most government jobs, so they start with the wrong thinking.  So, the government thought it knew best to ignore the one EV company that had worked to satisfy a real market value for electronic vehicles, then would impose on the other corporations that were doing fine making gas-powered vehicles that they would all switch over to electronic vehicles, where the batteries are made in China largely, creating single point failures everywhere.  It was a hugely dumb idea, yet the Biden administration committed to it in the first months of his presidency, and now, three years later, there is a panic from those car companies that nobody wants their product.  Americans aren’t buying EV cars, not to the point that they were expected to, and now there is all this investment in a market economy that nobody wants, which is a big problem. 

But what’s worse is that the plot looks even dumber.  Now that all the car companies are failing, the real intention of the plan seems to be to make personal vehicles so expensive that ordinary people couldn’t afford them, forcing people to move back into their cities where public transportation would become the dominant form of personal transit once again.  Again, the Biden government represents an authority approach where slowing down is their method of choice.  My children had just returned from Europe, where they took the bullet trains all over the place.  They are interesting, but when you get to a train station in Edinburgh or Paris, then what?  You walk, take a bicycle, hire a driver.  People quickly lose their independence, which was always the point.  In America, you drive your big car from city to city, and once you get where you are going, you take your vehicle.  You don’t wait for a train, Uber, or anything.  The minds of the insane have created all this micromanagement in these 15-minute city concepts.  And now we see the cost of their authority approach in billions and billions of lost economic opportunities.  Rather than meet Adam Smith’s invisible hand of market need, they thought imposing their vision onto financial standards was best.  And the result has been utterly disastrous.  And just in time for the next election, it’s all hitting the fan, as I said it would, years in advance.  If only they had listened.  But many fools followed each other over the cliff and now have themselves to blame.  Government should support the expansion of market economies, not get in its way and that is the real problem with all the EVs sitting around looking for customers that will never come.  The government tried to shape the market rather than adapt to the growing need for economic expansion.  It hasn’t worked anywhere, especially in the United States.  If EV cars were truly the best, and Tesla at this point makes the best, they would find their way into market consideration.  Instead, the government has decided to pick winners and losers, and if people didn’t like it, they could take a train, which is the answer all left-leaning politicians come up with, which has turned out to be predictably, and grotesquely wrong.

Rich Hoffman