[Sosfbay-discuss] Is Tesla Nuts? Press Conference in Menlo Park Saturday Jan. 9

[Andrea Dorey]

Why is it that we Greens always seem to end up on the wrong side of  
good projects?  I don't get this latest furor.
Tesla is using the Roadster to finance the electrical system they  
will use for not only the mid-size electric car for the public, but  
also a low-end electric car for the rest of us.  Telsla did a great  
run around Detroit's stranglehold on electric car production and even  
got money out of Obama for their EVs.   And BTW these cars are  
driving around all over the Bay Area, proving that a decent electric  
car CAN be built despite the mythology put out there by the guys  
making carloads of dough on the ICEs polluting our air, water,  
oceans, ad infinitum.

What the h*ll has Detroit (gag) or for that matter Toyota and Honda  
done for the electric car?  I mean AFTER they crushed and buried in  
the desert the EVs they were FORCED to produce by CA emissions  
regulations—which they were able to trash by federal mandate  
immediately afterwards?

Then there's the high speed rail ruckus and the BART extension  
objections and the free parking objections!  Ya' like walking or  
riding your bikes in high levels of pollution rather than letting the  
elderly and the poor and the working stiffs get a break with lower  
fees and improved infrastructure?  Oh, and wasn't there a resistance  
to a state/federal plan of solar panels for public works because you  
all thought it should be done by individuals?  Or do I have that one  
wrong too?

I'll bet you guys would have fought against WPA because it was a  
"waste" of federal tax money!
Sometimes good things get done by ratty rich people and not so great  
methods.
Like I say, I don't get this.  Are we Greens or Libertarians?
<sigh>
Andrea

On Jan 8, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Brian Good wrote:

>
> Sponsored by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day /Raging  
> Grannies Action League.
>
> Workers and environmentalists are asking why Tesla is planning to  
> build a "green" electric auto plant on a toxic dump site, in  
> Downey, California where hundreds of workers (notably at Downey  
> Studios) have been sickened.
>
> Event takes place at 11:30 at the Tesla showroom at 300 El Camino  
> (across from The Oasis).
>
>
> http://www.workersmemorialday.org/documents/Tesla1-9-10.htm
>
> http://www.alternet.org/politics/144675/will_our_%27green_jobs% 
> 27_dollars_help_a_ritzy_car_company_open_a_toxic_manufacturing_plant?p 
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