https://autos.yahoo.com/tesla-quietly-deletes-elon-musks-140500691.html
By Amber DaSilva
1st Gear: Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ For Climate Change Disappears From Tesla’s Website
Elon Musk loves a master plan, but it seems the first of all those plots has disappeared. A 2006 blog post laying out Tesla’s plans to shift the economy away from fossil fuels has ever so quietly disappeared, as noted by Forbes:
Elon Musk’s 18-year-old manifesto in which the tech entrepreneur laid out his vision for the electric car maker shortly after its first public event has vanished from the company’s blog page, along with all posts by Musk and Tesla executives before 2019.
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This month, Musk appeared to break with his earlier views on the risks of relying on carbon-spewing oil and gas, in his interview with climate-skeptic Donald Trump, who he’s endorsed for president.
“My views on climate change and oil gas … are pretty moderate,” Musk said during their discussion. “I don’t think we should vilify the oil and gas industry and the people that have worked very hard in those industries to provide the necessary energy to support the economy.”
It’s a far cry from his positions from Tesla’s early days: “The overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution,” Musk wrote in the 2006 blog. In it, he also promised that each successive Tesla model would be cheaper than one that preceded it, with a goal of making EVs widely affordable.
It’s tough to say whether Musk never cared about the climate, only using it as convenient posturing to earn some profit, or whether his views have just shifted so much in the years since he lost his damn mind because trans people exist. Coin flip, really.
