{"id":778,"date":"2017-05-25T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/05\/25\/pro-con-arguments-used-in-the-east-to-support-direct-auto-sales-a-compromise-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:12:00","slug":"pro-con-arguments-used-in-the-east-to-support-direct-auto-sales-a-compromise-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/pro-con-arguments-used-in-the-east-to-support-direct-auto-sales-a-compromise-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Con Arguments Used in the East to Support Direct Auto Sales + A compromise deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the arguments supporting direct sales of vehicles in Connecticut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opposing direct sales shows an opposition to technology and dissaudes tech start ups from\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Denying Connecticut residents the ability to buy directly in Connecticut costs Connecticut jobs and revenue<\/li>\n<li>neighboring state Massachusetts is getting the sales and the revenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the arguments opposing direct sales in Connecticut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>job losses<\/li>\n<li>job loss argument is maintained by auto dealers and by\u00a0business groups such as the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce &amp;\u00a0Connecticut River Valley Chamber of Commerce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A compromise offered:<\/strong>\u00a0Allow existing dealers to sell these cars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/business\/hc-tesla-connecticut-20170516-story.html\">Hartford Courant |\u00a0Auto Dealers Fighting Tesla Pitch to Sell Cars Directly to Customers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the arguments supporting direct sales of vehicles in Connecticut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opposing direct sales shows an opposition to technology and dissaudes tech start ups from\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Denying Connecticut residents the ability to buy directly in Connecticut costs Connecticut jobs and revenue<\/li>\n<li>neighboring state Massachusetts is getting the sales and the revenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the arguments opposing direct sales in Connecticut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>job losses<\/li>\n<li>job loss argument is maintained by auto dealers and\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,48,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2017-legislation","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}