re: "Feds lend Tesla $465 million to build electric car."
In the relativisim scale it's certainly a more productive 'loan' than the tens of billions of taxpayer earnings the Obama administration funneled to GM's incompetent crew which (unexpectedly only to them) subsequently went bankrupt. Who'd a thunk it?
The Waxman-Markey 'Cap & Trade' bill will make the electricity to run the Tesla's more expensive than gasoline. Maybe moot given the projected price of the Teslas themselves.