Elon Musk is a great con man but his Tesla troubles suggest that will only take you so far when your business is subsidized energy – milking the government.

Renewables and natural gas are natural partners; a point we’ve made numerous times here but many renewables advocates suppose they don’t need a partner, except for the government. No one better exemplifies this subsidized energy business model than Elon Musk, the pasty-faced trendy fellow who has captured the minds and hearts of millennials and investors desperately hoping to be on ground floor of the next Amazon.

Musk is a hustler’s hustler, though; a man with an imagination bigger than the universe and the ability to sell others on his visions. Nonetheless, a string of recent bad news for Tesla may signal the approaching end of his subsidized energy scam, requiring him to pack up the wagon and move on to the next town.

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