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Tesla's been getting a lot of attention for the past two years around the
country now it's getting some very special and perhaps unwanted attention
in Ohio auto dealers there are pushing for a law that would effectively make it
impossible for Tesla to sell their cars
inside out the state this is a Senate bill to 60 being sponsored by Republican
Senator Tom Patton
it would explicitly prohibit the state from issuing dealer licenses to
manufacturers auto manufacturers
including Tesla and now this is
interesting not because unique it is not you've seen similar things like this
in a Arizona new North Carolina Texas as well it's not always the exact sorta
bill
but their discriminatory specifically targeted at Tesla
so for most at most a time when you buy a car you don't go to foreigners
dealership you go to a dealership that is licensed by Ford to sell their cars
you talk to dealers and they are then selling its like a third party between
you
and the actual manufacture that Tesla is very different I think much more modern
example how to sell cars
you go to a and unofficial Tesla dealership
where you look at cars you see the options you perhaps take a test drive
and then you buy directly from the manufacturer meaning that whether
you're in Honolulu or new hampshire you're paying
the exact amount for your negotiate the price not even negotiate the price you
you you get there to saturn dealer so I will essentially and yes the car you
want yeah
and their surrounding me like having to deal with a gold is this particular
dealer like meeting with a nice face a discount
I I know I personally and done with that i've only
least one car new never won experience that again and so many people are liking
the way to test was doing business
but the dealerships the the third party dealerships they don't like it at all
because of course
they make their money by being in the way between you and manufactures
test will try to shake things up in there try to make sure that s what can I
do that
now I in the past year the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association the main
lobbying group for these
dealers in a hundred thousand dollars to ohio state lawmakers
implying that there's at least some chance that they'll be able to pass this
law as I said
they have already done so in several states everything like a lot of money
and other what these are buried in the it's very cheap by the State Senate
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so funny to me because this is you know senator tom patten
are right neither people on the right side of the aisle that are supposed to
be
the people who really respect pure capitalism
missus this fly in debate up pure capitalism
it's crazy what I percent its is exactly the opposite a free market yeah
it limits it unnaturally limits competition and
and that's the whole point of crony capitalism which is in reality
Republican 101 yeah that that's what they do
right they get big checks from big business
usually and in this case car dealerships in your states for huge ***
red their huge advertisers and radio/tv et cetera
and they also donate to politicians and here they're basically killing of their
competition with the bill
I mean if you are a real conservative you would this
by I is what they're doing i mean they're its
its yellows are you going to get was a mother ever seen and it's not even like
man you know the Chinese government is subsidizing these cars are flooding the
US with the SIM card not present American caller ever hear that you never
hear that kinda patriotic pride around test lab began to California from the
collateral on me and I'll use gases
exactly you know it actually helps the environment
when the republicans have become soap program now by their leadership and by
who responded by the oil companies
to the point where they think like grass a score own lifted gifted push stuff in
there
air brought yeah the plate although I Tesla
as a *** car that doesn't believe those are like a real manly callers were
depleted and destroy the world
fox attacked them constantly they should be filled with freaking pride
over the fact the test was not just doing amazingly well the US
where the Tesla Model S is outselling the comp the comparator
comparable cars from BMW mercedes-benz and things like that
but they're selling amazingly well abroad including soon in China and
throughout Europe what they're doing so well
and for the past two decades maybe three decades
US automakers have stopped willingly sucked because they knew the people just
want to buy
overpriced SUV's and trucks and things like that this is the future and they
should be embracing and luxury i mean it's not a cheap car and attacked
70,000 or yeah and that nobody by the seventy thousand dollar Model S that's
crazy it's like it's like crank windows or something you know to me like the
base model love you anyway yeah it always gonna cost you more than that
it's not a cheap car
and the car before that the original test with a 110 balls
I is very expensive handy but this look this is not an accident and Fox News a
also use a speaking we cover this when we had the courage show
against the GM's electric car right and
it's not because they like their idiot neanderthals although
you know you're tempted to draw that conclusion
it's because big they get advertising from the oil companies
and so they wanna they want to help the oil companies it's an accident be so I
legislators are considering this bill
it's not that they're all your clothes or light blue destroyed orgo as electric
cars bad guys good right
know they get paid for that rain so that's why they hate all the electric
cars cuz they get paid eight electrical yes
we know well I have an electric car made by Jim come at me bro
nobility and so for right now it might be difficult for Tesla to make the case
that they need to be
protected by not being discriminated against but in a couple beers and and
this is why I think they're moving on right now in a couple years gonna be
different situation because
in about a year they're gonna be launching the Model X SUV which is also
gonna be pretty expensive
but within three years they're aiming to come out with a car between thirty and
forty thousand dollars
even a guy in a significantly less than what the model exactly
but but why I'm red collar guy is like always just for you know cappuccino
drinking elitist
suddenly 35,000 our test lot that has like the highest safety ratings in the
country is better performance that Ferrari
maybe he wants the test when they get their manufacturing to the level where
they can keep up with demand I mean right now you're on a waiting list if
you want to tell you they don't have lying around the making and custom for
you
and you have to wait a while to get your car but once we get to a point where
manufacturing
is is higher where we've got more plants we've got more showrooms across the
country this is going to be a real issue right now it probably will be for you
I'm not
today okay this state you know doesn't want to buy my car whatever I don't have
enough to get people anyway but thats it
the legislation needs to be blocked now so that it doesn't have a president
agree and I we can all agree
alarm us he's not hurting for cash what I would do if I was him psycho you want
to bribe them
I don't know me know this but I'm a billionaire so okay you wanna play ball
white you guys who voted yes is that I'm not going to the state by state well
make an example are you guess
okay everyone who goes in favor blocking Tesla
I will personally eliminate from politics I will spend whatever it takes
to make sure you lose