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Tesla Loses Its Battle In Texas

Perhaps you have heard of the automotive company Tesla Motors and their CEO Elon Musk. Well for those who have not Tesla Motors is a start up automotive company that is focused on revolutionizing the automobile and bringing the entire automotive industry into the 21st century. The company was founded in 2003 by Elon Musk, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, JB Straubel, and Ian Wright. The companies first vehicle was called the Tesla Roadster which was a an all electric sports car; their following car is pictured above, called the Model S it is an all electric sedan and is currently leading the way in EV vehicles.

Tesla’s futuristic approach also appeared in how they went about selling their cars. You can travel in any direction and you will find multiple car dealerships for various auto companies that are privately owned by a family or as a group venture. Tesla though has established company owned stores to eliminate the middle man in car purchases and to bring forth a more efficient and cheaper way for anyone to purchase a car.

This radical way to sell cars though has caused quite a stir in Virgina and Texas where state laws do not allow a company to own the dealerships let alone sell their own cars. Today it was reported that Texas has shot down Tesla’s appeal to state laws to allow the company to sell their own cars through company owned dealerships.

Elon Musk personally pleaded his case before the Texas State Legislature during their meetings but was greeted with a stone wall when trying to change the laws and in return refused to budge when Texas Auto Dealers Association President Bill Wolters tried to compromise saying that Tesla could maintain some control over the dealerships but not all, of course Musk refused to give in. Word circulating around the story says that Elon Musk plans to take this fight to the federal courts where he hopes to have much more success.

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The Parenting Extremes

For as long as I can remember I’ve had complete freedom when it comes with what I can do with my life. My parents have rarely, if ever, said I can’t do something or hang out with certain people. For as long as I can also remember, I’ve never met parents that are anywhere near as lenient as my parents; many of my friends parents hover over them in one way or another.

My parents didn’t think twice letting me drive and take my friends to play paintball

If you ask my parents why they give me such freedoms, their answer will be that they trust me completely. I’ve never given them a reason to not. I don’t come home drunk or on some drug(s), do reckless things, hang out with the wrong crowd, or be a total numb skull. This trust is what lets me leave late at night, come home even later, have my own car, promote for clubs, sleep over a girlfriends house and hang out with friends they have never met.

Now you may think my parents aren’t involved much in my life if they give me such freedom but, that would be wrong. I love hanging out with my mom and though I can be seen as a tougher kid, I’m not ashamed to say that. Sure me and my dad may get on each other nerves sometimes but, we still have a lot in common that keeps us close. I really do enjoy being around my parents and hanging out with them both.

I was trusted with a car as soon as I got my license

On the other side of the spectrum, most of my friends parents still have a tendency to hover over them as if they’re twelve years old. Their parents control who they hang out with, don’t trust them when they’re out, check in on them constantly, to sum it up they baby their teenage son or daughter. They seem to shelter their kid from the world as much as they possibly can, the same world they’ll one day be on their own to live in.

Ask these teens if they can’t wait to get away from their parents thanks to college or to just be able to move out one day and they will all say “yes!” These same teens usually go totally rebellious once they are free of their parents since they can finally choose their own life to live.

I am not a parent nor am I claiming to be one in anyway. I’ve never raised a kid and don’t plan to for many years to come. I am only a product of how I was raised by my parents; I was raised in a way that I believe every kid should be as well. We all need to be able to experience the world when we’re young, the world we will one day be on our own to live in.

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Ann Romney – The Dog “Loved” Being Strapped to the Roof of the Car

Remember Seamus? The Romney’s pet dog that was strapped on the roof of their car for a 1983 trip to Ontario Canada – a trip so horrifying to the poor pooch that the dog ultimately defecated on himself as the Romneys sped along the highway. Well according to Ann Romney, Shamus loved being on that roof.

“The dog loved it,” Romney told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”

“Once, he — we traveled all the time — and he ate the turkey on the counter. I mean, he had the runs,” Ann Romney explained, according to ABC News, laughing while describing the incident.

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Mitt Romney Again Said Detroit Should Have Gone Bankrupt

America prides itself in the quality of automobiles it produces and Detroit – known as the motor city – is where that pride originates. But under the strain of the present recession, Detroit and America saw the automobile industry crumble, laying off thousands of people to stay in business and creating inferior products in the process.

The choice was simple – let Detroit go bankrupt, thus eliminating millions of jobs throughout the industry and watching other countries continue to pass us by in the quality and quantity of cars they produce, which by the way, was what Mitt Romney said should have happened when he wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times; or do whatever was reasonably necessary to save millions of jobs and save the industry, and bringing that pride back to America as first in the world for quality car production.

President Obama chose the second option and Detroit, the auto industry and America are seeing the rewards of his action. America once again produces the best automobiles in the world.

Everyone shares in this pride, except Republicans… and Mitt Romney. Today, Romney wrote another piece, reiterating his feeling that Detroit should have went bankrupt.

My view at the time — and I set it out plainly in an op-ed in the New York Times — was that “the American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing.” Instead of a bailout, I favored “managed bankruptcy” as the way forward.

Managed bankruptcy may sound like a death knell. But in fact, it is a way for a troubled company to restructure itself rapidly, entering and leaving the courtroom sometimes in weeks or months instead of years, and then returning to profitable operation.

In the case of Chrysler and GM, that was precisely what the companies needed.

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