Tesla in turmoil after Elon Musk smokes marijuana on live show and top executives resign

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Chicken and egg problem. Your analysis is a little facile and shallow (the little bit you revealed)

You undoubtedly have thought about this much more, but the tiny bit you wrote does not make a case.

Yes, electricity generation is far from carbon neutral, but it will become carbon neutral.

So, if you wait for the electric grid to go carbon neutral and then start in on electric cars and their infrastructure, you'll generate a lot of carbon dioxide. If you suddenly massively were able to switch cars over to electric overnight (you can't) then it would still generate a lot of CO2 from the electric generation.

So you have go at the problem from both ends. Start up electric cars and their infrastructure now in an imperfect way as you move the generation side of the issue to a more carbon neutral system.

And don't forget that Musk is well aware of what needs to be done, so his companies are also working on bringing down the cost of solar panels for generation, and electric batteries for supply smoothing (storage for when sun not available).

It is imperfect, but the perfect is the enemy of the good. Either we move forward imperfectly, or we adopt Trumponomics and move backward.