Tesla's fight with America's car dealers
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Tesla's fight with America's car dealers
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#2I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
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#3I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
I'm not sure I understand the apparent surprise here.
Firstly, there is a reason why, when driving through small towns, the names you see on the car dealerships are among the richest (if not the richest) around. Further, it is far from shocking that they have leveraged the power they have to entrench themselves.
What is so special about Texas that you would think they would be unique?
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#4I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
I'm not sure I understand the apparent surprise here. Firstly, there is a reason why, when driving through small towns, the names you see on the car dealerships are among the richest (if not the richest) around. Further, it is far from shocking that they have leveraged the power they have to entrench themselves. What is so special about Texas that you would think they would be unique?
Texas likes to boast about smaller government and more personal freedom. Except with cars apparently.
If the tea party were a state it would be Texas and Austin would be forced out.
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#5I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
I'm not sure I understand the apparent surprise here. Firstly, there is a reason why, when driving through small towns, the names you see on the car dealerships are among the richest (if not the richest) around. Further, it is far from shocking that they have leveraged the power they have to entrench themselves. What is so special about Texas that you would think they would be unique?
I am guessing because Texas is infamously a red state, and Republicans are perceived as claiming to be against government regulation.
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#6The article brought up the point that Tesla owns all of the service centers. I don't care if Tesla owns all the dealers, but having a monopoly on Tesla repair would be bad for consumers. If the process for becoming a "Tesla mechanic" allowed competition with the Tesla service centers, that would be OK.
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#7I love how Texas, of all places, puts up the most regulatory hurdles against a new technology and business model.
I grew up in Idaho. People there will talk about how important limited government is... until you mention farm subsidies.
Suddenly they'll speak convincingly about the benefits of centralized markets, price controls and protectionist trade policies with no sense of irony.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I understand the apparent surprise here. Firstly, there is a reason why, when driving through small towns, the names you see on the car dealerships are among the richest (if not the richest) around. Further, it is far from shocking that they have leveraged the power they have to entrench themselves. What is so special about Texas that you would think they would be unique?
I am guessing because Texas is infamously a red state, and Republicans are perceived as claiming to be against government regulation.
Probably.
Family was surprised that the anti-Tesla legislation in NC was spearheaded by some R's.
Hasn't stopped 'em from voting red, though.
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#9Will Elon Musk fold under the pressure and cooperate with the dealer network when they offer to sell at low to no markup to bring him into the extortion racket of Car Dealers?
I loathe buying cars so much because of the snakes that run those Dealerships. They want the car buying process to be so excruciatingly painful so people will leave money on the table to "Just take my money and make the pain go away".
How far are Dealers willing to go to make it illegal for Tesla to sell cars anywhere? Would they go so far as to outlaw the production of Tesla vehicles in America because it goes against the Dealer protection racket?
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#10> Until then, said O'Connell, Tesla will sell its cars the way it wants. If some states don't allow that, then Tesla will simply sell them elsewhere.
I think this last line of the article is very important. This has the power to get the consumer on Tesla's side of this fight. If enough of the right people in Texas (and other problem states) want this car and think the laws are stupid... they'll need to find a way to make that happen. Laws can be changed. If not then they'll just get them out of state.