Sly Tesla Ban Bill, No Public Debate, No Right To Choose
Instead of living up to its “Show Me State” transparency motto, Missouri is the latest state to hide its attempt to ban Tesla by trying to slip in anti-Tesla legislation without anyone noticing that they are removing from citizens their right to choose.
Dirty business is all part of the fossil fuel industry, that enslaves citizens instead of empowering them.
Freedom of Choice Quietly Being Removed
The Missouri legislature is trying to obscure their dirty anti-Tesla actions by slipping through legislation as its current session comes to an end this Spring.
This week, Missouri’s non-renewable energy auto dealers proposed new language in an existing bill to force people in Missouri to buy new cars and trucks only through “franchised dealerships.”
The dream car Tesla Model S, awarded 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year and its maker are giving dirty, dangerous, unhealthy fossil fuel vehicle manufacturers a run for their money. Tesla Model S drivers notice from across parking lots, flock to the car in wonder as though seeing a spaceship. In fact, many say that’s what The Tesla Model S looks land drives like.
HB 1124 has been around since late last year, and the House passed it in mid-April with no anti-Tesla language. This week, however, the bill reemerged with new language aimed to stop Tesla from selling cars. This Senate version passed with no public consultation whatsoever, and will likely move to the House floor for a final vote, essentially without debate.
This changed bill morphed into a bill completely unrelated to the original one that related only to sales for off-road and all-terrain vehicles and barred the manufacturers from competing against their franchisees (for example, Ford Motor Company cannot compete against Ford dealerships).
Tesla has no franchise or a dealership network and would not have been effected by the original bill.
Most car companies make a profit by granting individually owned dealerships the right to sell car brands. Tesla is going up against automobile dealers with a lot of power from their political contributions.
According to Open Secrets, the National Automobile Dealers Association, a lobbying group that represents car and truck dealers, spent $3 million in political contributions in 2012 and another $3 million on lobbying.
Tesla CEO Musk explained his sales model in a blog:
“When Tesla came along as a new company with no existing franchisees, the auto dealers, who possess vastly more resources and influence than Tesla, nonetheless sought to force us to sell through them.
“The reason that we did not choose to do this is that the auto dealers have a fundamental conflict of interest between promoting gasoline cars, which constitute virtually all of their revenue, and electric cars, which constitute virtually none.”
Electric cars need much less service than the gasoline cars, so there’s little need for dealership franchises.
“There are no oil, spark plug or fuel filter changes, no tune-ups and no smog checks needed for an electric car,” says Musk.
“Overcharging people for unneeded servicing (often not even fixing the original problem) is rampant within the industry and happened to me personally on several occasions when I drove gasoline cars.”
Sources: Elon Musk, AlterNet, YouTube
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Hope Missouri residents are awake at the wheel and prevent this outrageous fossil fuel industry dirty trick.
They are afraid that other cars types would be sold this way, ending the monopoly of the ‘auto dealership’. This is not about ‘fossil fuel’ cars vs. electric. It’s a move to protect the automobile dealerships. If you the consumer can ‘bypass’ the dealer, and buy the car directly from the manufacturer, people like Red McColmbs would not be billionaires any more, and he would not own an NFL franchise.
A full battery car will need little service for the motor, Tesla should be able to combine recharging and sale point or set up every used car dealer as a cheap sale point. The used car dealer can sell for <5% margin, like selling cell phones. There is to many ways to sell a product. Maybe use gas stations to sell cars. The buyer will look on Tesla site and pick a car and phone used car lot gas station to process the order and buyer will pick up car at the Tesla show room in the area.
But really why wouldn't Tesla have franchises, many car dealer would add a new brand if Tesla will become the preferred car, manufactures would have to allow dealers to sell Tesla if they are the car people want. From what advertising I have seen I would buy a Tesla if pricing is good enough.
Tesla knows dealers are committed to selling gasoline cars, and would not market their own cars well. There is no reason why Tesla shouldn’t be allowed to act as their own dealerships/repair shops, except for dealership lobbies.
Good for you on buying a Tesla. The base price on a model S is 55,000 and you get a federal tax credit (not just a deduction) of 7,500 and some states match it. That makes it 40,000. Similar tax credits more less expensive Nissan Leaf, which I think has a base price of 40,000. Very competitive. Tesla’s superchargers are going up all over the country fast, where you can fullly recharge for free in less than 45 minutes (a lot less if you have a smaller batter or have some charge less). And they’re powered by solar.
LOL, it is a $120,000 car that MAYBE a handful of treehuggers in the world could afford.
I love how treehuggers want electric cars, when so few of the cars ever released ever drop below $100k in price, while the huggers normally work part time at Starbucks for $15k a year, and could never afford such a car to begin with.
If you think you are immune from the cost of oil because you ride the tram, or subway, or take the bus; heads-up – when you jack petroleum prices up to $10 a gallon, you will effectively close down the automotive industry in this nation. When you do that, your $0.50 a piece apple will go to $4 each, your $20 a month bus pass will go to $200 a month, your $250 iPhone will go to $2000 a piece, and most businesses you frequent now will close. Your life will be spent working (yes, really WORKING) just to pay for your ‘alternative chemistry’ required to drive a tenth of your current lifestyle.
The day you price petroleum out of business, is exactly three days before you are forced to stop eating, because you won’t be able to ship it, grow it, pesticide it or sell it anymore.
The problem with most tree huggers is that they think milk comes from the store, and that mom-and-pop farms can feed BILLIONS on earth. Heads-up, they can’t. If they can, then we need to stop sending BILLIONS in crops and food aid overseas each year. In reality, there are less than 2-dozen nations in the world that can actually feed their own indigenous populations without aid. Aid, driven by petroleum (from shipping fuels to pesticides and derivative tax dollars).
No one gets it. Tell you what, just go buy a Tesla, and prove to us all that you are far richer than you pretend to be. ONLY THE 1-PERCENTERS CAN AFFORD A TESLA!!!
Ohhh Dustdevil – You’ve got so many untruths there, it’s hard to know where to start.
Obviously you have not kept up with Tesla’s new model coming out. It runs around 30K and with rebates, the price is right down to what any other care would cost – to buy that is. With Tesla’s new superchargers, one can drive clear across the country – FREE. That’s what people don’t seem to get.
As if huggers think milk comes from the store. In fact, I hardly know one hugger who drinks the stuff since it’s so bad for health – precisely due to where it comes from.
As an interim, along with electric, Americans could be using biodiesel today, right now – instead of shipping it to countries who know better than to support dirty, non-renewable, unhealthy, violence-triggering oil. MINIMAL change is needed to run all the vehicles you mention to biod because they mostly use diesel engines. But no – that’s not what BIG OIL wants you, Dust, to understand.
Watch the movies FUEL and The Big Fix and get back with me after you learn what’s really happening to keep people dumbed down and supporting violence against people and the planet. Deal? Thank you kindly.
Although Ms Dupre answered some of your misconceptions, there are several left. See my comment above on prices. Most people who can afford a car $30,000 and up can afford an electric car that’s adequate for most purposes, and they can afford to rent a car for long distances. They are a large part of our gasoline and diesel consumption. Not only is electricity cheap (and can be fully renewable), the only maintenance on a Tesla is brakes and tires because it has no engine, transmission, or exhaust system.
The only people who jack petroleum prices up so far are the oil companies and commodities speculators. Taxpayers subsidize cheap oil in the US without realizing it. Food can be grown locally to minimize transport a lot more than it is, and petrofertilizers are bad agriculture, leading among other things to coastal dead zones. Pesticides are also a stupid idea because pests adapt to them and they harm humans and other animals.
As for billions on Earth, there are far more than there should be, and all efforts to support billions more are starting to fail. We have to bring population down, fast, and there is no reason not to. In the meantime, we can start by no longer buying up farmland in other countries and letting them grow their own food. Petroleum (shipping) is certainly not the answer, especially with the global warming caused by CO2 emissions.
Incidentally, biodiesel is only a good idea if it’s made from organic waste, because that will oxidize sooner or later anyway. Growing crops of any kind for ethanol or biodiesel is not sustainable.
Biodiesel is the best interim answer since trains, buses – heavy equipment, semi-trailers, manufacturing plants… ALL use diesel engines. Had we put our farmers back to work growing feed stock on marginal land and non-suitable for food land to grow biodiesel. 10 years ago – think of how much we’d have saved in terms of pollution. Instead – environmentalists followed Koch’s “research” while other puritans said – no – not good enough. 10 years have passed – and we still have too little to show for renewable energy regarding engines.
Of course it isn’t the be all and end all – but it would have been better than next to nothing. It was/is a good 2nd generation renewable energy solution for engines.
How long do you think it’ll be before ALL those big engines switch to electric? The cost is totally out of reach. So? They keep burning the dirty stuff and keeping the oil barons delighted, thank you very much. We need to get real, get flexible and do what other sensible nations did to catch up with them – and that includes biodiesel to jump start renewables and put a heck of a lot of out of work farmers back to work. Remember – camelina grows on mountain tops, sprouts in now and had 3 harvests a year. It’s pretty, too.
There’s also the HDRD fast growing trees that help clean the air and water, grow 60 ft in 2-3 years and makes ideal biodiesel – as well as furniture – and it helps stop/prevent erosion. Why not use that and camelina while we wait for the rest of the most sustainable solutions to be developed – like other countrie have done instead of pussy-footing around another 10 years for the perfect solution – as if it isn’t almost too late already. Mr. Brown?
This car is hardly the answer. The batteries are lithium based and just the manufacturing of them is highly toxic. Lithium medal reacts with oxygen if you wreck one and split one open it’s going the catch fire.
The cost Is way too high for what it is.
I don’t like big oil ether but we have to be smarter than this overpriced pile of toxic chemical compounds.
Hydrogen engines are the answer.
How about putting farmers back to working their family farms by growing non-food stuff for biodiesel on their marginal land? The ones who are doing that are surely happy working and not on unemployment. It would be cost prohibitive to modify all the heavy equipment and transportation modes to hydrogen – but very inexpensive to modify all those diesel engines to use biodiesel.
As it is now, you and most all Americans are slaves to the fossil fuel industry that in turn is killing you and people overseas as our military kills to steal others’ resources. Real alternatives empower people – exactly what Big Gov and Big Oil do now want. That is a real threat to them. Did you now any gas guzzler can be modified to use biodiesel for around 60 bucks? And it can be done in less than an hour. Watch the movie FREEDOM to see how and why… You might be very surprised. Thanks!
To add to your debate the cost associated with charging the car, where does the electricity come from but none other than them dirty coal of gas fired plants, just got to love them one sided tree hugger.
Aznayvet, My 100% electric vehicle runs !00% on solar energy. So does my house. Good try. Thank you. Kindest regards, Treehugger
We are smarter – well some are. The fossil fuel industry, however, has most people by the short and curlies. There are very affordable all electric cars.
Bet you wouldn’t complain about driving free and never paying for oil again.
Lithium batteries are in all laptops and a lot of other devices. There have been two Tesla battery fires, due to serious accidents, out of thousands of Teslas on the road, with no injuries or damage inside the cars. The safety record is substantially better than gasoline cars, which catch on fire and explode far more often.
See my remarks above on costs. The cars are getting much cheaper, and like renewable electricity, will soon be less expensive to buy and own than gasoline cars. When we stop subsidizing Big Oil and the dinosaur car industry with our tax dollars, it will be far cheaper, and electric cars driving on renewable energy will be a key to energy and transportation independence, not only from other countries but from our own corrupt corporate-run government.
My response to your comment got misplaced below. Please read.
Fear not, better batteries are com.ing
Back in the 60′s a brand new VW bug cost $999
If tesla could come up with a affordable car for the average citizen they could change the world.