Elon Musk Finds a New Target: Confronts Bill Gates Over Major Climate Hypocrisy

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has upbraided tech guru Bill Gates over the investment strategy Gates has pursued concerning Tesla, which makes electric cars. Amid a Twitter conversation Friday, Musk said that he asked…

IJR SyndicatedApr 25, 20222 min read

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seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve

Climate Change

,” he said.

Gates had made a similar comment in a 2021 interview with The New York Times.

“Well, it’s important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to Climate Change anyone’s ever made. And you know, underestimating Elon is not a good idea,” Gates said then.

However, elsewhere in the interview, Gates suggested that his vision of Climate Change requires more than electric vehicles

“aving near term goals is very important. But if that’s all you focus on, then you’ll only work on the easy stuff, like passenger cars — which Tesla and others have done great work there. That we can see eventually that the extra cost, what I call the green premium, will be very low. But we’re basically not doing enough on the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat. And sadly, the things people think about — the electricity, passenger cars — are a third of the problem. So we have to work on the two-thirds,” Gates said then.

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Musk had sent a pointed tweet about Gates in 2020 when asked about why Gates had chosen an electric Porsche instead of a Tesla.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.