​​“Environmental regulations are, in my view, largely terrible,” he said at an event with the libertarian Cato Institute last year. “You have to get permission in advance, as opposed to, say, paying a penalty if you do something wrong, which I think would be much more effective.”

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It was always bullshit. The vacuum tube train idea was shot down decades ago, but Musk recycled it for the new generation.

This is why they attack public education, to keep the masses ignorant to make them easier to manipulate and dupe out of their money. The smiling, charismatic idiots we allow into office are just as ignorant as the rest of us.

Is it still better than high speed rail fuckwad? we could have had high speed rail all up and down the west coast by now but no some jerk off from the emerald mines had to fuck the ground in the desert

sorry OP I know you aren't xenon

The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection could have fined the company more than $3 million under the 2022 agreement, which allowed for daily penalties to be assessed. But regulators knocked down the total penalty to $242,800. For example, the bulk of the total possible fine was linked to the alleged missed inspections, but the agency chose to levy just a $10,000 penalty for each of the company’s 11 permits.

“Given the extraordinary number of violations, NDEP has decided to exercise its discretion to reduce the penalty to two $5,000 violations per permit, which it believes offers a reasonable penalty that will still serve to deter future non-compliance conduct,” regulators wrote in the letter.

HE IS THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. This is infuriating.

I thought the vegas "loop" was a pathetic and useless project that transports basically no one at speeds of 15 mph, but thanks to this article I now know that it is also a scourge on the environment of planet earth due to the pollutants added during its construction! Which I suppose doesn't put it too far off most of the things in the las vegas strip. But it's seriously pathetic, they dig 1 tunnel from point A to point B and have a driver drive a tesla to transport people from A to B and B to A. The tunnel is only wide enough for traffic in one direction BTW so if people are waiting on either side, they have to wait for the 1 car to finish its trip.

I'm sure DOGE will come back and fire anyone at any agency trying to limit the Boring destruction.

And they will pay none of it. Obviously.

What does the government care? It wants to bring back coal.

'samatter, Musk? Can't go for an even 1000?

Quietly hoping Trump ordered this, and someone's whispering to him to take all of Elon's money.