主题：特斯拉究竟是在做什么？ -- 大山猫

I am not surprised by his conclusion.

you can sense a slow formation of political consensus among business and political elites.

Shale gas exhaustion rate is very high (e.g., natural gas--you can not cut short the production given the below-the-ground pressure). I am afraid of a sudden fall in production rate less than 10 years down the road. Engineers in that industry can read the data and they understand that well.

I think even people in the energy industry can sense the urgency of new source of energy--America must cut its gas consumption. Given more than half of the gasoline consumption comes out of daily commuter's transportation need, the easiest way is to cut down the car consumption of gasoline.

In the future, maybe only airplane can still burn gasoline. All other industries will be forced to consume energy from electricity--this is the long term perspective as mentioned by Elon Musk several times in his interview.