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Environment & Energy

oldhippie

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11. Why?

Reply to grahamhgreen (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:38 AM

Mar 2014

Do you think the govt would speed things up?

Elon Musk is not exactly hurting for financing for this project. He isn't being limited by govt roadblocks. I would think the last thing he would want in this project is any government involvement. He seems to do pretty well on his own.

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