Re: The Kind of Immigrant Washington Politicians Hate. (They prefer illegal alien Mestizos)

[martin]

On Nov 2, 10:02 am, Iconoclast <goldst...@nym.hush.com> wrote:
> White immigrants are frowned upon by the Democratic and Republican
> parties -- preferring instead to import Hispanic peasants from Mexico
> and Central America for their precious Latino vote.  Read this story
> and weep.  These are the kinds of immigrants America used to value
> instead of MS 13 gang bangers and teenage Mexican girls waging
> demographic warfare against whites.
>
> http://www.thestar.com/iphone/article/Business/708847
>
> Tesla CEO following in Henry Ford's tracks
>
> October 12, 2009 00:10:00
> Tyler Hamilton Energy Reporter
>
> Tesla Motors Inc. will take a serious look at Ontario when it comes
> time to mass-manufacture a sub-$30,000 (U.S.) version of its all-
> electric car, chief executive Elon Musk told the Star in an exclusive
> interview.
>
> Musk, a company co-founder, said a big part of that decision will
> depend on the value of the Canadian dollar at the time.
>
> "It's a cool area to do work, and I know the Canadian auto plants are
> some of the most efficient in North America, so it would be wise for
> us to take a close look," said the 38-year-old entrepreneur and
> philanthropist.
>
> Tesla, headquartered in the Silicon Valley, isn't expected to bring
> its third-generation vehicle to the market for five years, but there's
> no reason to expect Musk's six-year-old company won't get there. So
> far it has delivered more than 700 of its $110,000 Tesla Roadsters, a
> milestone that led to an announcement in July that the electric-car
> pioneer had achieved profitability.
>
> The company also has plenty of money in the bank. It has raised nearly
> $300 million (U.S.) in venture capital, and this summer won access to
> $465 million in low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Energy.
> Part of those funds will go toward development and mass manufacturing
> of Tesla's second-generation Model S Sedan, expected to hit the
> streets in 2011 at a retail price of $57,000.
>
> The Model S could go a long way to silence critics of electric cars,
> and show more established rivals that electric transportation is more
> than just hype. It promises a driving range of 500 km per charge and
> the ability to be recharged in 45 minutes. "By the time we get to
> third generation it's going to be even better," said Musk.
>
> It's a believable statement, given his track record. Musk was just 28
> in 1999 when he sold his first company, Zip2, a maker of online
> publishing software, for $307 million. Soon after he founded what
> would become Internet payment provider PayPal, which was sold to eBay
> in 2002 for $1.5 billion in stock.
>
> He then founded Space Exploration Technologies to design and
> manufacture low-cost launch vehicles for private space travel. Under a
> deal with NASA, his company's Falcon 9 rockets will begin shipping
> cargo to the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle
> retires in 2010.
>
> It was in 2004 when Tesla hit Musk's radar screen. The company's name
> is a homage to Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla, whose
> inventions around the turn of the 20th century sparked the development
> of the modern electricity system. Just as Nikola Tesla helped us move
> to light bulbs from candles and oil lamps, Tesla the company wants to
> accelerate the global move from gas-powered transportation to emission-
> free electric mobility.
>
> Canada, said Musk, has an important role to play in that transition.
>
> "Canadians have a strong environmental sensitivity, greater than in
> the United States. Also in Canada, most of the electricity is
> renewable from hydro and nuclear, much more so than the U.S., which
> still uses a lot of coal. I think in some ways it's really a better
> market," he said.
>
> He said the Roadster, now for sale in Canada through Tesla's Toronto
> sales office, was designed to perform well in cold environments. The
> battery pack can handle extreme temperatures, and the car drives well
> on snow and ice.
>
> Musk was born and raised in South Africa, but he knows Canada better
> than most would guess. His mother was born in Regina and many of his
> relatives are spread across the Canadian West.
>
> When he emigrated here in June 1989, just 17 years old, he landed in
> Ontario intending to register for university here. But he missed the
> application deadline and decided to spend a few months visiting family
> in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
>
> "I went around Canada by plane, train, bus, car ... a few times," he
> recalled. "I worked at my cousin's wheat farm in Swift Current,
> cleaning out grain bins, working in the vegetable patch, shooting
> gophers, that kind of stuff."
>
> He cleaned out boilers at a lumber mill in British Columbia, later
> took on the task of cutting logs with a chainsaw. "A tough job," he
> said.
>
> He eventually got back to Toronto and worked a summer in the computer
> department at TD Bank while narrowing his list of schools to two: the
> University of Waterloo and Queen's. "I visited Waterloo and there just
> weren't a lot of girls. I figured there were lots of chicks at
> Queen's, so I'm going there."
>
> While at Queen's he met Jennifer Wilson, the Peterborough girl he
> later married. The two left Canada in 1992 after Musk got a
> scholarship to study business and physics at the University of
> Pennsylvania. The dot-com boom then drew them to California in the
> mid-1990s. Musk and his wife, a budding author who changed her name to
> Justine Musk, settled there and had five children, all boys. (The two
> divorced last year).
>
> "The thing that drew me to the U.S. was Silicon Valley," said Musk.
> "Otherwise, I would probably still be in Canada."
>
> Musk could very well end up as the Henry Ford of modern electric cars,
> but Tesla still has a long road ahead. GM, Ford, Toyota and other
> automakers have followed Tesla's lead, announcing plans to have plug-
> in hybrid, range-extended or all-electric cars on the road within the
> next two to five years. But scepticism remains in the market whether
> the interest in battery-powered vehicles is a valid trend and if major
> technical and economic obstacles can be overcome.
>
> Can the hydro grid support the move to electric cars? Will consumers
> buy cars that take four hours, rather than five minutes, to charge?
> Vehicles that can only drive a couple of hundred kilometres before
> charging? Can electric cars be affordably manufactured?
>
> Musk said the concerns are overblown. Electric cars won't take over
> the roads overnight, he argued, and grid problems won't occur until
> half the cars are electric, which will take three or four decades –
> plenty of time to upgrade the electricity system.
>
> "I don't think it's anything to lose sleep over," he said.
>
> Battery technology, he added, is advancing at an unprecedented rate.
> "We're going to see things we'd never dreamed of."
>
> Musk cited a new battery chemistry called lithium-air. "It's got 10
> times the energy density of the battery packs we're using today, and
> when that technology comes to market – it still has a lot of
> challenges to overcome – it will have a 2,000-kilometre range."
>
> Musk confines his laughter when asked if his stake in Tesla is about
> growing his personal wealth, which runs to hundreds of million of
> dollars. "I'd be pretty dumb if I thought the car business was the
> easiest place to make money," he said.
>
> "This is fundamentally about the environment, and economic
> sustainability. If we don't find a good transition here, then oil is
> going to get more and more expensive and is eventually going to run
> out."
>
> http://www.teslamotors.com/

Good stuff.

tt