Sod Off Musk, We Don't Want Your Influence Here In The Uk

[Canary42]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0en9mn8mko       

 

[New Judge]

Don't we?

[Canary42]

Well I might have guessed you would of course.

[davebro3]

Bit of a non-news story. Of course electric vehicle manufacturers will lobby to try to gain advantage. If Labour took any notice I think it would benefit the Chinese more than Tesla.

[New Judge]

Well it strikes me that Mr Musk is a highly competent  businessman with most things he gets involved with meeting with considerable success. His success is celebrated in the US. 

By contrast we have a government in the UK which believes it can do far better with other people's money than Mr Musk can do with his own and a successful businessman such as Mr Musk is told to sod off.

 

 

[Togo]

Wait till Micron or the Scholz suggest it. The left wing sociopaths will be all for it and eager to get into jackboot lockstep with them. 

[mushroom25]

// most things he gets involved with meeting with considerable success. //

on the face of it, yes, but let's look a little deeper. The LVCC (Las Vegas Convention Centre Loop) is an underground transit system. Built by Mr Musk's Boring Company, its tunnels are designed to be operated using Tesla type 3 electric cars. in this fashion it could potentially move 4500 people per hour (but more realistically it moves less than 2000). if it had been built to be operated by a metro train service, it would have been  capable of shifting 15000 people per hour (assuming a 6 mn train headway); indeed a metro line from Las Vegas airport to stations on The Strip would probably have been the most extensively used single line transit system in the whole of the USA. But, Mr Musk's company, having bagged the only feasible underground space in Las Vegas has effectively prevented that from ever being realised and although LVCC makes Mr Musk lots of cash, it's little more than a gimmick compared to what might have been.

[Old_Geezer]

If that is what he is lobbying for, no we don't.

[Togo]

//it's little more than a gimmick compared to what might have been.//

The Las Vegas loop. Do read the comments section. It becomes obvious that the people of Las Vegas got very good value for their contributions to the cost(minimal) compared say to Edingurgh's tramway or HS2.

https://vegasexperience.com/downtown-insider/boring-company-vegas-loop/

[jourdain2]

I can't comment on a lot of the points you have all raised, but he does seem to understand efficiency.  I believe that his team which designed and built the 'rocket catcher' numbered about 500 people - NASA hadn't managed it and they employ at least 5,000.  A bit of that efficiency applied to the civil service - would go a long way, I believe.

[mushroom25]

//  the people of Las Vegas got very good value for their contributions to the cost(minimal) compared say to Edingurgh's tramway or HS2. //

yeh but the Boring Company didn't have to do battle with the British planning process. taking the proposed Lower Thames Crossing as an example - the consultation paper for the project alone cost £300m and runs to 350,000 pages (presumably to ensure any posibility of a judicial review is headed off). And that's before a single stroke of work has actually taken place. just wait until they find colonies of rare bats, or even rarer newts, or any number of nimby complaints from the good people of Kent, that the builders will have to mitigate......

[Ellipsis]

If you value somebody's bank account as an indication of competence then Putin will be scored highly. There are lots of rich people around the world, of all political persuasions. It's better to look at people's character rather than their bank balance. For example, looking at their attitude to their own partners and children ...

 

[Untitled]

he's scum. i don't want his grubby hands on this country. 

[davebro3]

Bit bigoted aren't we untitled? I'm sure workers earning a living in Musk's industries would disagree with you. What have you done of any note?

[youngmafbog]

Just look at the spitting left on here.

So that means Musk must be good.  And I think he is.

But then the  Commies in power and their supporters on here wont have success will they?

[Mozz71]

That's the main problem for me MFB. You don't care whether Musk's influence is good for the country or not, and in this case, it certainly isn't for anyone driving a petrol car, the only thing you care about is whether they upset those lily-livered lefties.

Utterly petty.

[DDIL]

I believe the Las Vegas loop has no escape routes.  It was just opened the last time I was there and I was tempted but put off.

[New Judge]

“he's scum. i don't want his grubby hands on this country.”

Very profound and well reasoned.

Many, many people lobby Parliament to further their business interests. There are companies which specialise in doing it on their clients’ behalf.

I should have thought that with its mania for “decarbonisation” (which borders on mental illness for some members of the government) the current administration would be more than pleased to welcome a business ally who calls for the banishing of IC vehicles. Considering that is precisely what this government aims to do in a very few years’ time anyway (regardless of the consequences) I don’t see what the problem is.

[david small]

Welcome Mr Musk. Now show this poor shower how to run this country.

[Old_Geezer]

Anything that encourages this ridiculous rush to electric vehicles is a bad thing. It's a daft "solution" to a problem most civilised nations have already worked towards easing.

 

The expense of putying in a charging network is unjustifiable and doesn't fit the needs of the many. The cost on human terms of mining for rare battery minerals and reliance on certain nations that has them, is unacceptable; even more so given the cost and lifespan, not to mention the weight, of the batteries.

 

Anyone pushing that strategy and suggesting abusing the drivers of fossil fuel powered vehicles by using them even further as cash cows, are merely looking after their own wealth attracting interests and showing no moral standards as far as consideration of others is concerned.

 

The fellow is entitled to an expressed opinion but it behoves others to reject it and point out exactly what his real, barely hidden, motive must be.

[ToraToraTora]

He's bang on motoring is far too cheap anyway. They should double petrol, abolish VED and bring in road pricing.