Texas won't allow Tesla to sell electric cars directly
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Texas won't allow Tesla to sell electric cars directly
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Re: Texas won't allow Tesla to sell electric cars directly
#2You mean 'free market' Texas?
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#3There's already a Tesla store in Houston. How did they open that store, and will they be able to keep it open? I've seen a couple Teslas driving around Dallas, and am hoping to see more.
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#4There's already a Tesla store in Houston. How did they open that store, and will they be able to keep it open? I've seen a couple Teslas driving around Dallas, and am hoping to see more.
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#5All too often, the media as well as average people mistake support for corporate interests as support for "free enterprise." When large corporate interests are essentially writing bills for lawmakers, "free enterprise" is precisely what is not being practiced.
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#6There's already a Tesla store in Houston. How did they open that store, and will they be able to keep it open? I've seen a couple Teslas driving around Dallas, and am hoping to see more.
They also have one in Austin, but the greater issue here is that the stores can't help customers as much. Specifically, in order to comply with state laws the stores can't talk about the purchasing process nor help with the registration. Tesla's site has more details on what they can and cannot do: http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas
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#7There's already a Tesla store in Houston. How did they open that store, and will they be able to keep it open? I've seen a couple Teslas driving around Dallas, and am hoping to see more.
I remember reading some time ago that Tesla's loop-hole for opening storefronts is that they don't actually sell cars to people there... they just inform people about the cars and answer their questions. When it's time to actually buy one, they sit you down at a internet terminal and you order over the web just as you would if you were purchasing from anywhere else.
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#8What's not very clear in this article is that Texas has always been pretty good about keeping politicians out of office.
So depending on your view of government, that's either a really great thing or really terrible one.
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#9I wonder, do they allow Louis CK to sell his own tickets? :-)
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#10For the record, you also cannot sell dildos in Texas. I don't know why people are always crowing about how Texas is the land that respects individual rights and free enterprise. It's not. It's the land of unlimited corporate malfeasance, unchecked pollution, and a ban on fire codes.