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America Needs Elon Musk — to Sell Electric Cars
The billionaire’s appeal to conservatives may help the EV industry lure drivers who are hesitant to give up their gasoline-powered vehicles.
Would you buy an electric car from this man?
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My family’s next car will almost certainly be electric — and that’s a problem, not necessarily for our family but for America.
You see, we’re your basic highly educated big-city liberals. We have solar panels. For family burger night, we’ve gone meatless. Our current car is a Toyota Prius hybrid, which we barely drive. We take our son to school on foot. When we go to the office, we walk. When we go to the supermarket, we walk. When we went to a baseball game last weekend, we took the Metro.