The Tulsa World recently reported that electric car maker Tesla is choosing between Austin, TX and Tulsa as the home for its new truck factory. Here are the details:
Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Friday.
The person says company officials visited Tulsa in the past week and were shown two sites.
It wasn’t clear if any other finalists were in the mix. The person didn’t want to be identified because the site selection process is secret.
That's cool. Although the news was probably leaked by Tesla in an effort to get both cities and states to toss more public subsidies their way, it's cool that Tulsa is even being considered for this honor. Oklahoma could use all the non-oil patch related jobs it can get! Plus, it would be awesome, in a poetic irony sense, to have the world's premier electric auto car company manufacture its trucks in the former oil capital of the world.
The Tulsa Ruling Class must be aware of this, too. In a shameless, desperate attempt to woo – or possibly even creep out – the company, they have doctored up one of the town's most famous monuments – the 75-foot tall Golden Driller – to make it resemble Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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