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15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.

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May 25, 2013

Was beat up pretty badly as a kid & left me w jagged septum. Harder to breathe as I got older, so time to fix.

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May 25, 2013

Had a minor operation, so am in bed in meds. Probably shouldn't be tweeting :)

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May 25, 2013

@CosmicRami Awesome. We really need to promote that fact in the US. A CO2 tax will not cause economy to grind to a halt!

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May 25, 2013

Would love to do a pickup truck. Something w ultra low cg for sports car handling, dynamic air suspension & mega torque.

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May 25, 2013

Technically, I "got rich" from Zip2 & PayPal w zero govt anything, then put 100% of that into SpaceX, Tesla & SolarCity.

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May 25, 2013

If consumption is low, then the tax is proportionately low. We should prob not have tax on basic foods & critical meds.

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May 25, 2013

@ponder68 Carbon produced by a @SpaceX rocket flight is roughly equal to one 747 flight. No, we should not be exempt.

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May 25, 2013

Net of gas savings, a Tesla is $550 to $600/month with down payment taken care of by tax credits. Maybe less costly then it first seems.

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May 25, 2013

Yes, am arguing against subsidies and in favor of a tax on the end bad created. Market will then achieve best solution.

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May 25, 2013

Trees are net consumers of CO2, so technically we would pay them money :)

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May 25, 2013

Exactly. Seems crazy to risk the CO2 chemical experiment when we have to find another solution anyway.

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May 25, 2013

Big difference between taxing people and taxing purchases (ie consumption). Much better to emphasize the latter.

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May 25, 2013

@MaxMBerger The collective wisdom of the market is usually (not always) better than the smartest govt regulator.

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May 25, 2013

Me & other private money funded Tesla for first 7 years, got IPO+ govt money for 3, now paid back. Yes, carbon tax would be a better way.

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May 25, 2013

@grayj_ There should be a constitutional amendment to redo the tax code every ten years, just like we do a census.

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May 25, 2013

Weight of scientific evidence. Taxes don't ban a purchase, they just increase cost. Am against bans, except in extreme cases.

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May 25, 2013

Exactly. Better to tax known bad thing and incent desired outcome, instead of subsidizing particular solution paths. Let market decide.

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May 25, 2013

Perhaps. I am in favor of fair, simple taxes that are neutral on most things, incent good & disincent bad.

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May 25, 2013

Great article on Tesla-dealer battle by Leilani Munter (@CarbonFreeGirl), who lives in NC http://t.co/pvEmE5pEVN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/leilani-munter/tesla-north-carolina_b_3327721.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

84 likes144 RT28 replies
May 24, 2013

@VarunG_ Belief in climate change isn't necessary. Even a small probability of a severe outcome justifies a carbon tax.

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May 24, 2013

@tonykatz Don't like having a zillion tweets in the log. Makes it tough to wade through if someone wants to read my tweet history.

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May 24, 2013

@SapientCapital We created electric cars to help solve the problem, not because we thought it was easy money. Still isn't.

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May 24, 2013

And, since we will run out of oil anyway, why risk the future of all life on Earth simply to delay sustainable energy?

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May 24, 2013

Those who would deny climate change should ask themselves what happens if they are wrong http://t.co/S7fOIrly6B http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/301649-tesla-ceo-musk-reframe-climate-argument

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May 23, 2013

More importantly, @Chrysler failed to pay back $1.3B. Apart those 2 points, you were totally 1st http://t.co/0P2ZLDl67a http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130522/AUTO0101/305220440/1361/Tesla--Chrysler-spar-over-loan-repayment

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May 23, 2013

As many have already noted, @Chrysler is a division of Fiat, an Italian company. We specifically said first *US* company.

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May 23, 2013

Interview with @BloombergNews about Tesla and DOE loan gets into some of the details http://t.co/xb0JVoPHNC http://bloom.bg/16PjlJm

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May 23, 2013

Tesla wired the funds to repay the DOE loan today. Only US car company to have fully repaid govt http://t.co/jxHW9YkvPz http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-repays-department-energy-loan-nine-years-early

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May 21, 2013

@Gizmoman0 Physics

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May 21, 2013

@yes_andre I'm a big fan of ultracapacitors. Was going to do my PhD at Stanford on them. But we need a breakthrough in energy density...

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May 19, 2013

@McBartVolgers @SpaceX High pressure helium pneumatic bolts and pistons. No explosives.

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May 19, 2013

@xyrth Cool, will get one plus another chicken

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May 19, 2013

@TalulahRiley You're welcome. It did seem like the chicken of destiny xx

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May 19, 2013

Petting zoo left a chicken behind at the park. Now we have a pet chicken.

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May 15, 2013

@DanaBrunetti Soon Model S will feature druidic dwarves dancing around a miniature stone henge

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May 15, 2013

@DanaBrunetti Well, you see, by making it go to 11, that makes it louder than loud :)

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May 14, 2013

Supercharger announcement pushed to next week. Something else this week.

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May 14, 2013

@bryanclarke physics + a broad range of engineering. Worth taking humanities courses too, particularly history.

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May 13, 2013

@vicorly Yes, usually several times more energy over the course of the year than is needed by the Model S

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May 13, 2013

@malkosh we do

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May 13, 2013

@itsokayyouknow Harder than that, but it is a software vs hardware change

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May 13, 2013

Btw, vast majority of credit for SolarCity should go to Lyndon & Peter Rive & their awesome team. I'm just a small part.

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May 12, 2013

@SeanChin @RaimisJ Over the air upgrade coming in a few months to allow tethering (and other things).

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May 12, 2013

@annabananastand It can do hands free right now. Being able to text people via voice while driving would be a good feature to add...

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May 12, 2013

@enggirl Mostly water or coffee at home. When I'm out, will have Macallan neat or vodka with something.

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May 12, 2013

@danielmarshal15 It can dig up almost anything.

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May 12, 2013

@JasonPolstein Yeah, we don't do a good job of telling people about this feature. Requires hardware unfortunately.

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May 12, 2013

@grimmerkimmer @dpinsen Given the extreme burn, shorts are pushing every possible fear, uncertainty & doubt story http://t.co/LWr3GODxBG http://www.thestreet.com/story/11919380/1/cramer-wont-wait-for-tesla.html

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May 12, 2013

@RaimisJ Tesla software knits together Google Voice, Slacker, Gracenote & others and streams over 3G (will be LTE later)

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