I just saw a post making, nearly word for word, the same comparison between Ford Pintos and Teslas that I made months ago.
I don't have a problem with that. I'm sure that the comparison has occurred to quite a few people, but here's an important difference.
This post uses a picture of a Tesla on fire but offers no details about the incident. Peculiarly enough, in the photo it is the roof of the car that is burning, not the engine or battery compartments.
In addition the post offers figures but no sources and thus is not aimed at a general audience but instead at an audience predisposed to agree with the poster's criticism of Muskrat and Tesla.
I cited sources when I did this same comparison because then you put anybody who wants to defend Tesla in the position of having to ignore and deny factual sources.
You can't win over the Muskratines, but you won't convince the uncommitted to see things your way if in order to do so they have to accept your unsupported claims.
When dealing with fanatics, the willfully ignorant, and those who are adherents to a cult of personality, nothing will convince them or change their mind, but to have credibility to the non-committed you should cite sources.
So you don't look like you're making shit up.
