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Tesla actually has gotten to the point of making real things. Enron at its height, was, erm, uh. Yeah. I think given what we know about Enron now it's pretty easy to draw up a direct comparison. Tesla might be doing a bit of a shell game with the pricing, but as far as comparing it to Enron, I think that's a bit overboard.


You're insinuating that Enron did nothing? What would you do with a Model S if companies just like Enron didn't exist?


Well, since Enron was an oil company, and since the model S is an electric vehicle, I'd say the model s is just fine without Enron around...


Enron were also in the business of selling and trading electricity and owned a number of large power plants. A lot of the fraud was actually in the electricity part of their business.


Yeah I'd venture to guess if Enron still existed it'd be MORE expensive, not less, to own a model S.


Enron was a lot of things but I wouldn't go so far as to call them an oil company.


You're thinking of Exxon.




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