To the editor: I really like the irony of evaluating Elon Musk’s wealth, post-SpaceX IPO, with what number of gallons of gasoline you should purchase, given Tesla is the oil business’s strongest enemy (“Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire — here’s what $1 trillion can buy,” June 12). Tesla has added greater than 9 million electric vehicles to our roads, probably maintaining simply as many gasoline automobiles off them. Not directly, Tesla’s saved much more gasoline automobiles from being manufactured, as its success is forcing all legacy carmakers to go electrical.
I’ve adopted Musk since 2003 and beloved that he handily beat gasoline carmakers at their very own recreation. I used to be profoundly disenchanted in his abrupt change in politics, however we have now President Biden and his pro-union advisors in charge for a big a part of that with their boneheaded determination to leave Tesla out of the EV summit. After which Biden had the gall to praise General Motors CEO Mary Barra, saying she “electrified all the vehicle business.” This after GM was discovered responsible within the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” of making an attempt to kill the EV. That, my buddies, is Orwellian doublespeak.
However to the bigger query of what you can do with $1 trillion, Musk will little question proceed constructing electrical automobiles that ultimately will finish the interior combustion business, making rockets that go to the moon and Mars and automating automobiles that would save nearly 90,000 lives by 2050.
Paul Scott, Santa Monica
This author is co-founder of electrical automobile advocacy group Plug In America.
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To the editor: As I learn the information of Musk turning into our first trillionaire, I keep in mind him celebrating decimating USAID. Hundreds of thousands of persons are sick, ravenous and going through loss of life due to that.
Musk may personally have funded USAID himself with out affecting his wealth in any measurable means. We threat shedding our humanity within the quest for extra money.
Debbie Cassettari, Chino Hills
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To the editor: Right here’s a thought: There are about 72,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County. Musk is now value $1.2 trillion. That’s 1.2 adopted by 11 zeroes. Let’s say he instantly feels philanthropic and decides to present every homeless individual in L.A. $2,000 a month for 5 years to hire a studio condo (no bedrooms for the homeless — let’s not get carried away).
Do the maths: 2,000 x 12 x 5 x 62,000 equals 8.6 billion. $8.6 billion is just about 0.72% of $1.2 trillion. Any questions?
Jack Spiegelman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Laying greenback payments alongside the equator umpteen occasions or stacking them to the moon and again continues to be an unseeable abstraction. It’s simpler to get a grasp on one 1 trillion by changing no matter is being counted to seconds.
A million seconds is between 11 and 12 days. One billion seconds is nearly 32 years. One trillion seconds is greater than 31,000 years.
In the present day, Elon Musk is “value” greater than $1 trillion. The nationwide debt is approaching $40 trillion. Who needs to be a millionaire?
James B. Jackson, Warner Springs, Calif.
