[It's a long post. I do have a tendency to go on. You can also just hop to the website, which is here: 3rd Carbon Pricing Raffle: Win a Tesla. Make a Difference. or Climate XChange's home website, which is here: Climate-XChange. Wondering what holiday gift says to the recipient, "here's a gift that supports the environment in your honor AND gives you a chance to win a Tesla plus tax payments" and can be printed at home just-in-time? Just sayin'.]
Hello out there in TMC-land,
Come heck or high H2O, at approximately 3 p.m. New Year's Day, 2019, Climate XChange is raffling off three (3!) Brand-New Teslas + the Federal and Massachusetts tax payments each winner would otherwise owe on each Prize (very important, the exclamation mark is used to denote excitement, not taking the factorial, which would be way more Teslas than we can afford)!!!!!! (Again, excitement and most certainly NOT factorials.)
[By the way, why IS CXC doing this?! (1) Attention on Carbon Pricing. Really. The 30 seconds someone looks at one of our posts or ads or car door stickers or postcard-sized handouts or what have you may be the only 30 seconds that person spends on the phrase "Carbon Pricing" all year. And guess what? We need to build public awareness and support. It's why the raffle is called "Carbon Pricing Awareness Raffle". (2) It's a fundraiser. We spend the money raised on the mission.]
Yes. THREE!
The winners all win.... (say it along with me)... Teslas! There are no 4th, 5th or 6th prizes. There are no prizes consisting of some amount of cash, or a test drive, or an electric lawn care kit, or electric bikes, or what have you. Winners will not be driving an electric bike. Winners will be driving brand-new Teslas PLUS Climate XChange will pay the Federal and Massachusetts taxes on these Prizes which are a metric boat-load of money on top of the prize itself.
I've noticed some people somehow think that we're only giving away Model 3s or even just giving away one Model 3. That couldn't be more wrong. The Prizes are:
Perhaps I should put it in dollar terms. Here's what Climate XChange will pay Tesla; the Feds; and Massachusetts; all on each Winner's behalf.
Each Ticket is Eligible for any of these Prizes. Therefore, each Ticket has Three Chances to Win a Brand-New Tesla Plus Tax Payments.
Well... just in case anyone has missed the point about how many Teslas CXC is raffling off all at once (three) consider this:
Curious about how many tickets we've sold so far, against our target? At the bottom of our main raffle web page, you'll find this ticket "speedometer" (snapshot from tonight):
In case you're wondering, the money raised by the Carbon Pricing Awareness Raffle goes to an excellent cause, namely, education and research in pursuit of carbon pricing at the State-level across the United States and hell-bent-for-leather in Massachusetts and Maryland, where legislation is teed up for the next sessions and great progress has been made but -- dammit! -- legislation is hard and more and more support has built up but it isn't across the finish line yet, goldarnit <bleep>.
Some Frequently Answered & Asked Questions:
Hello out there in TMC-land,
Come heck or high H2O, at approximately 3 p.m. New Year's Day, 2019, Climate XChange is raffling off three (3!) Brand-New Teslas + the Federal and Massachusetts tax payments each winner would otherwise owe on each Prize (very important, the exclamation mark is used to denote excitement, not taking the factorial, which would be way more Teslas than we can afford)!!!!!! (Again, excitement and most certainly NOT factorials.)
[By the way, why IS CXC doing this?! (1) Attention on Carbon Pricing. Really. The 30 seconds someone looks at one of our posts or ads or car door stickers or postcard-sized handouts or what have you may be the only 30 seconds that person spends on the phrase "Carbon Pricing" all year. And guess what? We need to build public awareness and support. It's why the raffle is called "Carbon Pricing Awareness Raffle". (2) It's a fundraiser. We spend the money raised on the mission.]
Yes. THREE!
The winners all win.... (say it along with me)... Teslas! There are no 4th, 5th or 6th prizes. There are no prizes consisting of some amount of cash, or a test drive, or an electric lawn care kit, or electric bikes, or what have you. Winners will not be driving an electric bike. Winners will be driving brand-new Teslas PLUS Climate XChange will pay the Federal and Massachusetts taxes on these Prizes which are a metric boat-load of money on top of the prize itself.
I've noticed some people somehow think that we're only giving away Model 3s or even just giving away one Model 3. That couldn't be more wrong. The Prizes are:
- Grand - (pick one) Model S or Model X or Model 3 Performance+ PLUS Federal & MA tax payments
- Second - Model 3 mid-range PLUS Federal & MA tax payments
- Third - Model 3 base PLUS Federal & MA tax payments
Perhaps I should put it in dollar terms. Here's what Climate XChange will pay Tesla; the Feds; and Massachusetts; all on each Winner's behalf.
Each Ticket is Eligible for any of these Prizes. Therefore, each Ticket has Three Chances to Win a Brand-New Tesla Plus Tax Payments.
Well... just in case anyone has missed the point about how many Teslas CXC is raffling off all at once (three) consider this:
First shalt thou purchaseth the Holy Ticket. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then thou shall knowest the number of Teslas to be Raffled. [With apologies to you-know-who.]
Curious about how many tickets we've sold so far, against our target? At the bottom of our main raffle web page, you'll find this ticket "speedometer" (snapshot from tonight):
In case you're wondering, the money raised by the Carbon Pricing Awareness Raffle goes to an excellent cause, namely, education and research in pursuit of carbon pricing at the State-level across the United States and hell-bent-for-leather in Massachusetts and Maryland, where legislation is teed up for the next sessions and great progress has been made but -- dammit! -- legislation is hard and more and more support has built up but it isn't across the finish line yet, goldarnit <bleep>.
Some Frequently Answered & Asked Questions: