Washington Times article on foreign parts probe.

[doug]

U.S. electric-car maker praised by Obama probed over foreign parts - Washington Times

The year after President Obama singled out the company for creating lots of American jobs, California-based Tesla Motors became the focus of a federal probe into whether the automaker was using foreign instead of American parts in manufacturing their electric vehicles, records show.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation centered on whether the company was using its foreign trade zone status to bypass federal loan requirements that companies must buy American, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Not sure there's actually anything to make of this.

 

[Norbert]

Not sure there's actually anything to make of this.

This was discussed in the investor's thread. Based on info in the article itself, that investigation became obsolete when the DOE pointed out that the loan is not part of the stimulus program, and so does not have the requirements which would warrant such an investigation.

So in summary this is just a really bad way of highlighting the use of non-american parts. Really bad, because to the casual reader, the article and its headline give the impression that there might be cause for an investigation, whereas in reality there is nothing unusual.

 

[doug]

Well, the Times is the "conservative" newspaper of DC. The headline reads as Fox News-lite.

 

[Lyon]

The Washington Times is a rag. It's a propaganda organization founded and funded by the ultra-rightwing leader of a religious movement (tried to come up with a nice way of putting it). It lost money every year until finally becoming a glorified blog.

All car manufacturers in use parts from other countries. It's a global economy.

 

[Arnold Panz]

The Washington Times is a rag. It's a propaganda organization founded and funded by the ultra-rightwing leader of a religious movement (tried to come up with a nice way of putting it).

Why be nice? It was owned and funded by the Moonies. You really can't believe anything you read in there. It's almost all pure propaganda. Orwell would weep reading that paper.

 

[jstoneman]

Why be nice? It was owned and funded by the Moonies. You really can't believe anything you read in there. It's almost all pure propaganda. Orwell would weep reading that paper.

That just struck me as Hysterical.......I laughed out loud in public

 

[Grendal]

But a lot of other news agencies are running with it as if it were news. It affected the stock price today.

 

[Zextraterrestrial]

But a lot of other news agencies are running with it as if it were news. It affected the stock price today.

thank to them I have a little more ;>

 

[Sparky]

You lost me at "Washington Times article..."
These are the same dripsacks that bloviated incessantly over the "Climategate" emails.
I suppose it was the emails that were causing the polar ice cap to melt.

 

[Grendal]

Torque posted a rebuttal to the stupid WT "news" article:

Foreign parts investigation against Tesla closed a year ago finding nothing wrong