Singer Sheryl Crow, 63, waved goodbye to her Tesla as she sold the electric car and blasted billionaire “President Musk” in a viral clip. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla,” Crow captioned an Instagram post rebuking Elon Musk’s intensifying political power as leader of the Department of Government Efficiency as well as President Donald Trump. Crow pledged to donate the money generated from the sale to NPR, “which is under threat by President Musk,” in hopes that “the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.” The nine-time Grammy winner has been an outspoken political critic throughout the years—slamming fellow musician Jason Aldean for “promoting violence” in his Try That in a Small Town song. At the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., Crow assessed America’s current political climate as not “uplifting,” The Hill reported. She added that one must endure “rugged times” in order to “decide who we are in our humanity.” About her decision to sell the car, Crow wrote, “My parents always said … you are who you hang out with.”
I wonder how long this will be legal. Elon likely has his lawyers planning lawsuits against people for not buying Teslas.
Good for Sheryl. What about everyone who never owned a Tesla in the first place?
You can do your part by joining the enraged mob that eventually executes Musk with their bare hands
Execution is so backwards.
Make him work for the rest of his life in a cobalt mine.
Uranium mine. We’re gonna need reactors.
Well, they can’t sell theirs.
I kinda wish she would have like lit it on fire instead of selling it though. Most people would need to sell or trade in, the people who can just take the loss should be removing it from circulation too.
At least in theory, she replaced the sale of a new Tesla with her used one. That’s money directly taken from Tesla, and by extension musk.
Obviously there are a ton of extra variables, so who knows what the end result is.
But what about all the repairs which is inevitable with a no QA manufacturer? I suppose they could get junkyard parts, but that probably can only get you so far. Also they might pay for subscriptions or buy the self driving crap.
Yep, these are some of the extra variables. If the buyer would not have otherwise bought a Tesla, it changes things entirely. Same for the (slight) increase in supply of used Teslas lowering the price, making them more attractive to buyers.
But I’m going to hazard a guess that anyone buying a used Tesla today was already going to buy one, limited only by their finances.
Yeah probably. I hate sharing the road with one knowing their steering wheel could fall of or their breaks could fail. That being said when I see a cybertruck I just laugh at how ridiculous those monsters are.
Right, but now instead of ‘aligning’ with musk, she’s aligning with someone who want to align with musk. She doesn’t want to own the car, but she’s willing to take money from someone else who does want to own the car and whatever she thinks that signifies.
At minimum she could have donated it to a cause or something, it could still be sold but without an alignment between her and the buyer and some place with a little less agency than herself could benefit and take the mildly hypocritical hit.
Funny you mention that! If you read the article she donated the money from the sale to NPR who is under fire from Muskie boi.
I did actually read that, and the donation was a good direction, but still equated to selling the car on the regular market which puts her in the regular sales cycle and doesn’t have much impact in that way. A donation and auction could have been more impactful.
How would that affect the donation? And what is the difference between the “regular” sales cycle and auctioning?
Financially, this doesn’t make sense. Decreasing supply without changing demand means more money goes to Musk/Tesla. Same principle as a stock selloff.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion… If she donated the car and it was then sold, it’s the same but distancing herself from the sale while also potentially raising even more awareness at the charity and advertising a ‘discarded’ car vs a sale and donation of funds.
I would say the bigger takeaway is that reducing supply by one car can be more than made up for by raising awareness and this potentially reducing demand. At least she accomplished part of this by the announcement, even if it could technical raise demand by those that would react out of spite.
Circulating Teslas is 29999 vs 30000. If there’s 30k worth of demand, they’ll make a new one. Oversimplification but that’s the idea. “Raising more awareness”, I mean… maybe? Actually, probably, if it was really a huge spectacle.
We shouldn’t be burning infrastructure that we need to avert the climate catastrophe
Blow up oil pipelines, not electric cars
Plenty of other electric to choose from that don’t look and feel as cheap as Tesla.
I love this, because even if it will not have a significant impact on things it will definetly bother Muskrat enough to do something loud and cringe in response.
Also saw a few Youtube influenceers doing the same thing, like Ozzyman.
