>Whatever happened to the free market? ... >The whole issue stinks of protectionism ...
Yup, you called it: protectionism. And it does not stop with attacks on Tesla. See http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Cannabis-Sex-Cheese-soon-EVSE-every-31-miles-in-Holland-tp4664162p4664167.html EVLN: Dutch Gas Sues To Stop Netherlands L3 EVSE installations Those nice new L3 EVSE planned for every ~30miles in the Netherlands, well not if NOS wants to keep others from disturbing their pure-profits-pie. Whether they succeed of not, will also depend on Netherlands citizens raising their voice to fight them, and get their Gov. from deciding in favor of protectionism for the oil industry lobbyists. Establishing plugins as another transportation choice has draw out those that feel their territory is being infringed upon. Its like it a 1930's Chicago gangsta war, with ice cars racing through the streets with choppers (machine guns) a blaze out the windows. "Ain't Nobody Gonna Git a Piece of Our Action!?!" {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Tesla-Petition-Results-tp4664080p4664168.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)