> There's no reason someone shelling out $100,000 for a car should get a $20,000 rebate from the government.
The fact he's single handedly building out a nation-wide electric car charging infrastructure counts for nothing?
The fact he's single handedly building out a nation-wide electric car charging infrastructure counts for nothing?
Nobody.
> Let him play by the same rules as everyone else.
He is. The building of publicly accessible next-gen infrastructure should be rewarded, especially when the government isn't willing to do it.
> If he manages to pull that off, he will have a large stake on a successful company.
That's the point. He's also taking the risk that he's sinking millions (billions?) of dollars into an infrastructure that might go the way of the betamax.
I swear, it's like some people around here have no concept of history or economics. How do you think the oil, electricity, telephone and data infrastructures of this country was built, anyway?