How much Senators Markey & Blumenthal took from Oil & Gas

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    You can check this stuff yourself at https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=e01&cycle=2020&recipdetail=S&sortorder=N&mem=Y

    Now these two like AOC signed the no fossil fuel money pledge which strangely and wrongly limited them to not more than $100 from fossil fuels. Limit should have been not more than $0.00 with immediate resignation as a consequence for violation unless it can be proven it really was an accident and none was spent. You see the problem is that even $1 means their soul has been purchased and they are in the pocket of oil and gas- the amounts they take cycle after cycle aren't even needed to win in practical terms (no amount is needed to win ever!) For reference, Romney took $35 because everyone knows which side ole Mitt is on. You'd have to ask why such a pledge was necessary in the first place but when you see these placating shills signing it then ignoring it you understand why it was necessary. Some like AOC took $32,632- way up from the prior year. And some like Bernie Sanders took $306,610 down from more than the million he took last year but you can see why he has been so pissed in at Musk, his bearer shares in naturl gas must be at risk. Markey was down this year after getting caught but not returning all the fossil fuel money the prior year down from 65K or so to a mere $3,153 - so he actually took more the year prior than fake democrat Joe Manchin took in the recent cycle at $44,157- gives you some context. Richard Blumenthal took $447. Just so you know there are politicians who don't take damn oil and gas money!

    You can imagine what GM and Ford and the rest of the ICE laggards are screaming that these representatives of the people (not corporations) behind the scenes: Tesla is failing to collude, our foot dragging is failing if Tesla's Q1 isn't shat upon somehow we won't even make it to Q1 2022 how will Biden like that?... blah, blah, blah, use national security in the name of fossil fuels or any excuse to stop this!!! Personally, I don't believe anything about the Texas report or the former Florida reports so there appears to be no damn pattern as cited in the letter from Markey and Blumenthal NHSTA. The lie industry (media) was trying to get Monroe to say that Autopilot should be paused for 3 years so fossil fuels could have a break. Ever wonder why Buffet is in both natural gas and insurance- well the insurance industry collusively jacking up rates to prop up constantly failing NG stocks and their derivatives is something working self-driving and Tesla self-insurance will kill off and Tesla is very close.

    Look at Consumer Reports which says such systems are superior only when they tell you all the time that they don't work (because they literally don't) doing the paid lie industry thing trying to do the sound bite of it being "easy to defeat autopilot" by getting in a Model Y in the driver's seat to trigger seat pressure safety sensors, setting AP to zero speed and as a result stopping the car, then attaching a chain to the wheel then crawling out of the attached seat belt shoulder and lap (imagine how hard that is) then climbing into the passenger seat and reaching across the wheel while not jostling the wheel which would shut AP off and literally reaching the stalking and pulling it forward 2x then holding and keeping the stalk up? Does that sound easy? Does it sound obvious. CR also tries to imply there are no alerts when the alerts are blaring and you'd have to be unconscious not to notice and then AP would disengage and very likely bring you to a safe stop.

    Or check that report with that police chief with 4 stars saying it was 100% certain there were no people driving the Model S in Texas but then less certain in the same sentence- what a way to equivocate and then saying it took 4 hrs and 30,000 gallons to put the fire out and that the car exploded. Do electric cars explode? No they don't- ICE cars explode. Tried to say the car had AP activated then we learned card didn't have AP and it couldn't have plausibly been activated with no lines on the road. The fire chief debunked the description of the fire said was out in 3-4 minutes and took only a trickle of water to keep the pack cooled after that and no special assistance (despite the police chief saying otherwise,) but the actual car was completely melted down. Now we don't know how long it took for the Fire department to get there but the body of the car was completely melted down. Reported that there was a forest fire first noticed so that implies it may have been burning for a bit but still it was described by the fire chief as them having to put the fire out to see there were bodies in the car but the car shown had the body melted all the way down so if that were the state of the car they would have seen bodies right away. How much of the forest burned? How quick will that aluminum body melt- and its reinforced steel cross supports melted down too? And this was in a secluded place so what did they do (burn it down first some-where-not sure how they trick tesla telemetry but who knows) and load some cadavers in the back. This stuff seems like outright bulsht backed by some sort of license to commit propaganda and have it not come out in court. Who were these people- notice no identities

    What are these idiots after? Self driving is happening, it will happen in China so it is happening and who do we want to have the patents on this and in what tax jurisdiction? Same with the brake demonstration at the China Auto show, have to guess it was the usual suspects GM, Ford, BMW involved. It would be much easier to literally get a ICE car to explode than the bs Consumer Reports did public should think of the sponsored, captured media as the lie industry. And Tesla has an interior camera that a Velcro cover could be placed over but these same propagandistic idiots are trying to bait its use on privacy. Remember when the CR bastards tried this last time? You can time this garbage and their total lies to their quarterly reports. There is more than the shorts involved here.

    I think the totally unjustifiable smugness of the Big 2 comes down to their faith in how much they have paid off politicians and that's all it is. I remember GM got a bailout on making virus machines during closure a half billion- did they make any machines- doubt it. Then they felt that they could force Tesla to buy one of their factories where they were laying people while recently doing 25 billion on ads and another 25 billion in stock buybacks. You have to read between the lines, ICE is trying to fake it till it makes it but it is not trying to make it- the hard truth seems to be that none of them actually have anything like self-driving systems (because it would mean they sell a lot less units when they already have a revenue problem entirely of their own corporate welfare case making) BMW even mocks the concept of self-driving by having ad saying its cars with manual sticks are the ultimate you drive it your(self) driving machines. What the ICE laggards have in self driving tech amounts to false advertising (especially regard to their shareholders) because you can use it almost nowhere it is just defensive marketing because while this tech will save more lives than all other safety inventions put together since the advent of the automobile times 10x they don't want it and are trying to kill it just like they opposed seat belts and air bags and had to be sued and forced to use them- same people and same mentality. They are just faking it, look at Mercedes its new EQS has in the fine print that its battery will only have at least 50% (read it will have only 50%) at 155K miles and the car itself is still far off and as a result not surprisingly it is having trouble with orders so much so that it says there isn't sufficient demand to justify variations to include the obligator coup and convertible- but that is just like GM saying it can't even be full EV by 2035 if its customers don't want it- no GM and its ICE have a demand problem- they will be very lucky to make it through Q1 of 2022 (from what I can see) but here they are trying to hide behind even their customers. Tesla doesn't pay the lie industry putting the whole, bribery, theft, fraud, extortion- law as crime racket at risk.
     
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