You give him too much credit, it’s all going to happen on the same day.

Seems like a good move to hurt Elon, but I think this move was poorly thought out looking at the rebate page and will hurt BC residents.

https://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/electric-vehicles/rebates-incentives/rebates-home-chargers.html

Specifically, this part

Eligible chargers

Chargers eligible for rebate must meet the following criteria:

…

A Level 2 charger, 208V or 240V, and feature a SAE J1772 standard plug head

…

Whether they like Tesla or not, this is excluding the newer SAE J3400 that all major car manufacturers have now adopted and all new cars will use. Manufacturers of EV chargers are adopting this as well, and forcing people to use a J1772 standard is going to force all newer vehicles even non Tesla vehicle to use an adapter.

They should update the rules and allow both even if not allowing Tesla specific ones.

Imagine buying one of the new Kias and your only option to charge at home is with an adapter or you get no rebate.

Why even pay the cancelation fee?

It’s not like anything going on now is legitimate.

If even a year. It’s not something that gets better with age.

deleted as others said the exact same thing below.

Ya. I watched the Doug Ford announcement, and he said parts can cross the Ontario border up to 8 times before making it into the vehicle or final product.

so $10 part -> $12.50 -> $15.625 -> $19.531 -> $24.414 -> $30.517 -> $38.146 -> $47.683 -> $59.60

So that $10 part from the first factory is now $59.60 and that’s before the fact that it probably increases in value at each step along the way to being refined into it’s final product.

Thats why he’s saying (as well as others) that they expect the factories on both sides to shut down within a couple weeks.

Edit: half of that if it’s a one way tariff where both sides didn’t put tariffs on the exact same items.

Who’s he talking about? Was there a gubernatorial election I missed in one of the 50 states because a governor resigned? Was it Desantis? Please be Desantis!

(not op) I’m against a wealth tax, but what you mentioned is a serious problem that does need to be fixed.

The best I’ve come up with is taxing use of collatorlized assets. Are you a founder in a company that went public and you have a lot of money in stock? Great, well done! Oh, you want to buy a house without selling any of that stock and take out a loan against that stock, that you don’t pay back for decades or until you die by simply adding more collateral? Tax that. Don’t let them use it indirectly without taxing it. If they repay the collateralized loan, let them get a refund and tax however that gets paid back. They have the money to make sure all the paper work is handled correctly.

I’m sure there’s other tricks that would need to be addressed, but it should be doable without a blanket tax on unrealized gains.

Edit: also let the tax agencies investigate the lavish lifestyles and have them show how they are paying for things, and when it ultimately comes to this or other ways, tax that. Short of offsetting their yearly spend with donations to charity, tax it. Don’t let this $0 income/capital gains shit continue through trickery.