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It's really special to know people "in the news"...and I don't mean Bill Ford! I mean YOU!

(That photo of you next to Bill Ford is "priceless"!)

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i would say it's a career making photo but you already have a pretty stellar career... haha

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that's a "really" special photo! like i said... great to know people "in the news"!

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Ha! I love that photo. Reporters were squeezed together at that moment like sardines. It was insane. (Note: I flew from CES in Vegas to Detroit and drove straight to Huntington Place to cover the Ford event and another event. So many good stories to come.)

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It seems to me that if Trump has shifted from trashing EV technologies (and tax incentives) to now saying he supports them, this may PO (upset) a lot of his base, including politicians like those in Iowa who have been discounting electric vehicles specifically and government support of clean energy innovations generally.

I guess we will see what the future president - and Musk - actually support in the end. Talk is cheap, as people proverbially say.

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Tracking these kinds of discussions is so important.

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I appreciate you following the issues and sharing information.

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Also, I am suspicious of Trump’s real motives for making the call; there always has to be something in it financially for him. Was there an invitation to the Florida mansion? A request for $1 million “donation?”

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Tump's call to a Ford executive is just another shake down call. You want to keep the EV production credit? Let's see how much money you send to the inaugural fund. The other oligarchs have contributed. Where's your million?

Corruption like this country has never seen before.

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Thank you for reading, Ray.

I'll continue monitoring developments within the auto industry.

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Thanks for this reporting, Phoebe. I drive a Ford … and I farm out in Pipeline threatened land here in Iowa.

I’m wondering if those “Production Tax Credits” Ford speaks about (in the IRA bill) are the same “45Q and 45Z” Tax Credits that Bruce Rastetter’s Summit Carbon is planning on to build and operate their hazardous CO2 Pipeline all across the corn/ethanol states (Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois.)

Even if they are different “pots of gold”, it seems ironic that mega-$$$ in the IRA bill help Ford produce their EVs and would enable Summit to prop up the Ethanol/fossil fuel industry; ruining millions of acres of farmland and endangering lives and livelihoods of all in its path.

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