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Government and business aren’t known for considering externalities in their decision making, but it seems noteworthy that the impact of the loan is not a small return, but the survival of a successful electric car and battery company. Would you be alright with providing equivalent money in grants to produce this tech? Because I would argue loans to a business have a better chance of reaching market successfully. Could they have gotten here without that loan? Maybe. Could better terms have been arranged? Possibly. But I think it was a praiseworthy investment nonetheless.



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