> so many solar and other “clean” energy private ventures failed during that period
You can't even see you contradict yourself.
If all companies were supported by Obama but they all failed, but not Tesla, it wasn't Obama who made companies succeed but Musk who made Tesla succeed.
Not to mention you fail to enumerate those supposed subsidies.
The only significant think I know about is $465 million LOAN in 2010, which Tesla quickly and fully paid off.
Compare that to $13.4 billion loan to GM in 2008 from Bush and additional $50 billion in 2009 to bail them out from bankruptcy.
The Government (i.e. tax payers) lost $10 billion.
GM would surely not exist if not for the tens of billions of loans.
Musk would probably find a way to make Tesla work even without the $465 million loan.
I hope you see how biased your take is.
You harp on Tesla benefiting from gov support while ignoring that many other companies also get support and direct competitors like GM got 20x more support.
You can't even see you contradict yourself.
If all companies were supported by Obama but they all failed, but not Tesla, it wasn't Obama who made companies succeed but Musk who made Tesla succeed.
Not to mention you fail to enumerate those supposed subsidies.
The only significant think I know about is $465 million LOAN in 2010, which Tesla quickly and fully paid off.
Compare that to $13.4 billion loan to GM in 2008 from Bush and additional $50 billion in 2009 to bail them out from bankruptcy.
The Government (i.e. tax payers) lost $10 billion.
GM would surely not exist if not for the tens of billions of loans.
Musk would probably find a way to make Tesla work even without the $465 million loan.
I hope you see how biased your take is.
You harp on Tesla benefiting from gov support while ignoring that many other companies also get support and direct competitors like GM got 20x more support.