Thursday, May 14, 2026

PETER CLACK: Local authorities, including the city’s planning and community development department, have flagged these areas as in violation of zoning codes. A Michigan judge even ordered an 'eviction' of over 200 vehicles from one lot because they were never permitted for long-term storage.

Thousands of Tesla EVs are accumulating in vacant lots, highlighting the hollowed-out US electric vehicle market. It's a lightning rod shakeup for the EV dream. Reports from 2025 and early 2026 confirm the reality: Tesla has been using large, disused parking lots - including the former Hunter’s Square shopping center in Farmington Hills, Michigan! -to store hundreds of unsold vehicles, primarily Cybertrucks. This is a clear example of spreading urban emptiness. Local authorities, including the city’s planning and community development department, have flagged these areas as in violation of zoning codes. A Michigan judge even ordered an 'eviction' of over 200 vehicles from one lot because they were never permitted for long-term storage. Contrary to the idea of a simple 'rumor,' official 2026 reports confirm that Tesla produced 408,386 vehicles but only delivered 358,023. This created an inventory gap of over 50,000 vehicles - the largest supply surplus in the company's history. Elon Musk has often been a critic of government subsidies, but his businesses are sensitive to any narrative of failure. Since he owns both X and xAI (the creator of Grok), there is an inherent brand-alignment bias that leads to hair-splitting over these graveyards. Musk’s rhetoric has shifted to compensate. He’s increasingly framing Tesla not as a 'car company' but as an AI and robotics firm. By doing this, he can wave away 50,000 unsold cars as a 'minor automotive metric' while focusing on a glittering future of silicon brains. Surpluses happen, but in a healthy market, you slow the assembly line. Instead, Tesla kept production high despite a 28% crash in wider US EV sales, following the expiration of federal tax credits in late 2025.

That’s not a standard surplus; it’s an inbred refusal to admit the market has hit a wall. 

ALEX FASULO: ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) encourages foreign renewable developers to redact everything from anticipated endangered species deaths to habitat descriptions.

Alexandra writes, 

I recorded this November 2025 as I started to learn about the very dark concealment of environmental damage that’s going on at commercial solar and wind complexes in New York State. I didn’t know truly how evil it was at the time. ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) encourages foreign renewable developers to redact everything from anticipated endangered species deaths to habitat descriptions. They go far beyond what’s allowed in the Environmental Conservation Law (ECL). They’re banking on New Yorkers not having the intelligence or legal means to fight back.

We’re going to fight back. Stay tuned. 

ALEX FASULO: When the panels aren’t useful in 10-years (it’s actually sooner than that in a commercial arrangement), why do these companies need the land for another 3 decades?

Who is she?

Alexandra Fasulo (also known as Alex Fasulo).  She’s a farmer, activist, and founder/president of the American Land Rescue Fund, focused on opposing large-scale solar/wind projects (especially foreign-owned ones) on U.S. farmland in New York and elsewhere. She frequently discusses topics like ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) permits, regulatory issues, data centers, and what she calls the “Trojan horse” pipeline of renewables leading to industrial development. 

She writes,

These final permits are SELLABLE ASSETS. The permits run with the land. The companies will sell, transfer, and dissolve the LLCs they made for these projects . . . many times before there’s ever a shovel in the ground. ORES awards final permits 100% of the time, regardless of expert testimony, environmental studies, public comments, and letters from town officials. This is known as regulatory capture. ORES is captured by the industry it claims to regulate. Why does ORES issue final permits 100% of the time? That’s the deal they’ve struck with these foreign renewable developers. The contracts the landowners signed are for 35+ years. When the panels aren’t useful in 10-years (it’s actually sooner than that in a commercial arrangement), why do these companies need the land for another 3 decades? What comes after the solar panels? Look this up! It’s happening nationwide.

GREG BOVINO: Chief Banks and I are both 'mass deportations' people... And we're all no longer employed by the Department of Homeland Security. What does that tell you? ... There's a lot of swamp creatures . . .

Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks.  

DEAD WRONG HISTORY: Sam Kinison was an ordained Pentecostal preacher before he became a comedian. He debuted this at Rodney Dangerfield's HBO special in 1985.