TESLA VS BIG OIL

By Sahl Bakshi

Dated: January 31, 2020

Elon Musk was smart enough to see the opportunity, wealthy enough to be able to try and brave enough not to hesitate. One could not stress enough Elon Musk’s brilliant contributions in breaking our fossil fuel barriers. For decades, Big Oil would buy up and bury any technology that could compete with their global monopoly. They knew that the world’s dependency on fossil fuels would not last for ever, so they have already invested on “alternative fuels”, such as BioDiesel, Hydrogen and Natural Gas. Anything, really, that could not be readily found or easily manufactured so that they would be able to transition from one monopoly onto the next. What they always feared the most was the electric car. Because when anyone could just plug their car into a socket and in a few hours charge it up for a a few days, their iron grip on the global economy was over. That is why they had their paid sock-puppets in the mass media bad mouth and ridicule any decent electric car, including the emerging TESLA. It wasn't their first rodeo. In the 1981 they (allegedly) had Tom Ogle, the inventor of the extremely efficient vapor-fuel engine, killed - and his patented engine that could admittedly give over 200 miles to the gallon was lost. Think about this for a moment: it took us less than 60 years to get our technology from the first heavier-than-air self-sustained flight on to building the rockets and space modules required to land a man on the moon. That was all we needed to go from the Wright Brothers’ wood and glue contraption to the Apollo spaceship. Yet for over 100 years the range of the electric cars not only did it fail to increase, but was shrinking! Then, suddenly, TESLA released the Roadster and, overnight, the range of electric cars jumped up by 400%. Because by then, the smartphone revolution had happened, and people wanted their over-equipped phones to function longer than a few hours. That was when battery technology could no longer be suppressed. It grew exponentially. The high demand opened up the market and the ensuing competition drove batteries prices down, making them available for anyone to use. That was the crack TESLA needed to blow Big Oil’s control wide open. And it shook their world. Falling in step with Schopenhauer’s three stages of truth: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Then, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as being self-evident."