@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 1:44

President Biden’s joke of an executive order for electrifying the auto industry

I am for unions, et cetera. But regardless, I think it's just almost blasphemous to exclude an auto manufacturer like Tesla from your executable order that kicks off the electrification of the auto industry. I'd be interested in hearing what you guys think

Electric cars, policy, Biden

@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 0:38
Hey Shammi, welcome back. It's good to hear your voice on sale again. Yeah, I noticed that omission too, but I really did not give any weight to it. I think these are like small chess moves being played to jockey for position in various negotiations and things going on at that level. I think so. I personally just kind of it's kind of a gimmicky thing more than anything else. And I think this will just play out
@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 0:57

Optics!!

Oh, I'm not worried about the longterm impact, especially for Tesla. I think Tesla has a solid plan going ahead and what they're going to do, and they're rolling with it. Even Elon Musk a funny meme in response on Twitter, he posted the whole alien sky thing. I'm not saying it's sabotage, but it's sabotage, but anyways, I just thought regardless of all of this, I thought the optics looked super awkward or bad
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 0:21

https://youtu.be/pmP3JZu3dwI

Hey Xiaomi, Pete Buttigieg replied on this question. Apparently Fox News asked him about the exact same question and I liked his answer. It was basically that meeting was about tailpipe emissions standards and Tesla's don't have tailpipes. Adding the YouTube clip here for you to check out
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