http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/07/tesla-sales/
"Republicans tend to tout the party line of how government regulations strangle innovation, all the while continuing a legacy of using regulations to hinder those who are not in their pocket. Hence, why the subsidies to the fossil fuel industry are fine, but those that subsidize clean energy are merely the works of the devil trying to institute Sharia Law in the United States for some reason."