skookerasbil
Platinum Member
Pharmaceutical companies? You should start a thread on that, here it is irrelevant. All electric cars are doing is making lithium skyrocket in price. Nothing more. At that they will soon deplete the profitable supply of lithium and we will all have to find something else. Tesla will also deplete our supplies of cobalt. Most people dont think ahead like that. They want the easy gratification. Either way, Tesla is a luxury toy. Nothing more. Building something that is pure luxury and not practical only adds more pollution to the Earth, not less. I wont convince you of that. I wont convince any of the "believers". Telsa is pollution. More CO2 for less return. Sad really.Again, it doesn't matter when the first electric car was build. Things are changing NOW. Without electric cars, there's no need to improve electric cares. With electric cars there is.
They're far more viable now than before.
So, Tesla is being subsidized by the govt. Many, MANY companies do well because of government intervention, for example pharma companies.
Just because I mention something, doesn't mean this is me starting a whole conversation about it on a massive tangent.
It's me showing that the government backs up many different types of companies because they see that it benefits the US.
Electric cars do need to be sustainable, which is going to be a problem. You've actually brought up a good argument with cobalt. However the same argument could be had for a lot of things, like current cars which require gas, which has to be found. The US is currently pumping a lot of oil out of the ground. How long can that last?
The US has 36.4 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The US is producing about 9 million barrels a day. Which is 3.2 billion barrels a year. At this rate the US will have gotten through its proven reserves in a little over ten years.
Now that doesn't mean the US will run out of oil. Proven excludes oil that hasn't been found.
But at some point it is going to start running dry.
Yep...but only the uber-nuts worry about shut like this! Thank God!