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Circle the Wagons – Tesla coming is coming to Texas . . . ?

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Photo above - Musk decides to uproot his empire from California and move to Texas (AI generated art).
Not Shown - Musk ALSO rethinking his long term plan for Chinese factories

Elon Musk's Texas Ventures Spark Environmental Concerns As Locals Raise Alarm Bells (msn.com)

Telsa's tortuous trek to Texas has come under attack.

Readers probably recall that Musk waved adios to the golden state a couple of years ago. He'd had it up to here with various stuff: pandemic shutdowns, masks mandates, work from home mandates, taxes, environmental suits. Did I mention environmental suits?

It's not an overnight thing to uproot all those warehouses, assembly lines, testing grounds, executive office complexes, and server farms. You don't just rent 100,000 U-Hauls and pull up stakes at the end of the month. But Tesla's new Dallas digs are half built, and NOW there are naysayers?

Someone must have forgotten to make campaign contributions to the right people if this is happening. That's what contributions are for - to smooth over speed bumps like zoning hearings. Construction permits. Inspections. Access roads. Grid connections. Wastewater disposal. Issues now being leveraged to impede Musk's progress. See link above.

At this point, some clever pundit usually smirks “The Simpsons predicted this - in season 17, episode 3”. But the predictions I recall came from the Wall Street Journal and other bastions of capitalism. They warned – some time ago – that the great migration from failing coastal/blue regions to red ones would end in tears. Because modern era Okies weren't migrating due to political disaffection. Like their forebears, they simply wanted new or better jobs. Some had been out of work for a long time. Or priced out of the California's housing market. Texas gave them a big howdie-do and hollered come on down! A few analysts warned that people who had voted blue all their lives in San Francisco weren't going to kick the habit just because they moved to cow country. Turns out those predictions were prescient.

Wait – blue and red voters mingling? Wouldn't that be a GOOD thing? Potentially the end of the political chasm which is tearing us apart? Living side by side in diverse, tolerant harmony? Finding common ground? What if that ground is in view of a new 2,000-acre tesla factory? And let's not forget those millionaire executive transplants who thought they could work remotely forever from their new rural Mc-Ranchettes. They must really be cheesed. Instead of vistas of charming, vintage oil derricks in the distance, that ambience is being eclipsed by the new giga-factory under construction just a mile away.

So . . . a LOT of players here. And not everyone will be happy with whatever happens. Expect years – decades – of litigation between old timers, blue collar migrants, rich white collar WFH isolationists, and factory owning oligarchs.

The notion that Texas would welcome a massive migration of coastal workers and factories should always have been suspect. Look at how the lone star state has been defending its border against Mexico, for decades. And those guys already dress the same.

If America expects to remain a leader in innovation, tech, manufacturing, and living standards . . . we need to find solutions to these problems. Burning school library books and filing suit to stop half built factories doesn't seem to be the way forward.
 
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