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to. There is some chance that if Justin Timberlake had a Tesla, sexy would be bringing him back. Yes. Yes. I delivered it. Wow. Sexy would bring him back. That's right. You can try to retell that joke at home and it'll be just as flat as when I tried it. Way too much setup. But it's still, I think, a good payoff. I think it was worth your time. Sexy is bringing him back. Speaking of drinking, I s…
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Toyota says it's no longer going to focus on electric vehicles and instead will develop new combustion engines. Some people say that might have something to do with hydrogen. I don't know. But I can tell you this: if you've tried to buy a Toyota truck recently, you know that you can't because they're in such demand that they're selling them as soon as they have them in the pipeline. They're all sold before they reach the dealer's lot, all of the Toyota trucks. And they don't need to do anything for anybody. Whatever they're doing must be working like crazy because people want those trucks like crazy. Every day I'm on the road, I see a Toyota Tacoma go by and I say to myself, "Man, I wish I could have bought one of those." I tried. Couldn't figure out how to get one.
But it's not all about electric cars. I'm glad that the big auto companies are looking at more than one way to make a car. I think I'd be disappointed if everybody just went electric and just said that's it, there's only one way. That would worry me. I'd rather see that there are two or three competing techniques from really capable companies. We'll see who wins. Let the marketplace decide.
Here's something that apparently Musk said that I didn't catch. I saw a
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version of it but not this. He said one of his predictions lately: Elon Musk telling Tesla investors that the value of Tesla alone could become half of the combined value of the S&P 500. Let me say that again. Elon Musk has said in public to Tesla investors that the value of Tesla, just that one company, could become as valuable as half of all the companies in the S&P 500. It could be half of the…
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