Michael Graham Richard — Auto dealers try to sneak in a bill that would put "Tesla out of business in New York"

From the beginning, Tesla’s goal has been to catalyze the market for electric vehicles and selling through intermediaries at this stage of the company will not work.For Auto Dealer Associations to claim that restricting competition is in the best interests of the public is wrong and defies obvious common sense. If we are kept out of New York, it forestalls progress and defeats innovation.

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Auto dealers try to sneak in a bill that would put "Tesla out of business in New York"

Michael Graham Richard | Transportation / Cars

The funny thing is that one of the chief markets for Tesla, considering the price, is the financial sector centered in Manhattan, Tesla vehicles being Veblen goods at this point instead of chiefly green goods. Wall Streeters won't just cross the river to New Jersey to buy one? This is incredibly dumb.