A carbon tax would help Tesla by making gas more expensive and by increasing energy prices, which could encourage homeowners to adopt solar panels.
the idea of a federal carbon tax at the company's 2021 annual shareholder meeting on Thursday.
A carbon tax, or tax on greenhouse gas emissions, has long been proposed as a way to reduce the emission of gases that cause climate change, particularly carbon dioxide. Some advocates believe that a carbon tax should increase over time to give industry time to discover and roll out lower-carbon alternatives to the products and processes they use that do emit CO2., but the United States has not.
"The sheer amount of money we're spending on flying parts around the world is not great," Musk said. "It makes sense to have production on the continent where the consumers are."
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