As for tax, when we become a manufacturing hub for the rest of the world and sell much ore to it than we buy;and when that outcome is further assisted by a completely reformed and simple tax system everybody pays according to their means!
As their one and only tax liability!

There will be plenty of revenue to pay for all the road and rail services we need!

Albeit, far fewer fathomless fools, who always think the answer lies in taxing enterprise and entrepreneurship out of existence or forced to relocate elsewhere, like almost all our better ideas and smartest people!
Alan B.

Think about it. then get on U tube, and listen to eminent scientist and nuclear expert, Dr Steven Boyd explaining just how safe thorium reactors are, and why we should get busy building a few and filing for patent, or wait until the Chinese who are beavering feverishly away with westinghouse, building stuff congress has decided on their sound scientific understanding of nuclear technology, to outlaw!

Listen and understand, bananas are more radioactive than thorium, and nuclear energy is the safest in the world!

The only problem to date is crap design, big nuclear and infantile oversight compounded by the vested interest of coal companies? [Coal now costs more than natural gas?] And the fossil fuel sector!?

Moreover, the law in the USA the home of modern innovation, has been changed recently, meaning first to file wins the patent and not necessarily the inventor!

The black ink notes physicists/researchers were obliged to keep are therefore rendered worthless along with decades of research!

The time for vacillating, endless political prevarication is over along with the puerile excuses for inaction!

Simply put, even the chinese commies have embraced the free market model, while sensibly retaining ownership and control of energy and capital, much to the chagrin of investors who just don't believe in free market competition, but rather want monopolies/"cartels" and a captive market which can be screwed for every last dollar! Even as the world goes to hell in a handbasket!

Lifting folks out of poverty is the way forward for us!
I mean how much trade did we do with China when Hasbeen was a boy? And how critical is that trade for us today!

And if china had remained mired in endemic poverty, where would we be now? Under the bedcovers, hiding from the Great Yellow Horde about to descend and take us over, and could still do so via their massive economic strength! Unless we pull finger, stop mumbling nonsense mantras about a government that has no business in business, and just get busy making something happen!

Just don't do something, stand there!
Alan B.

Alan I have no use for electric cars. Usually when I get a car out it will have travelled a minimum of 150 kilometres before being put away, & at least 40% of the time it will be around 400Km.

As for your thorium cherry, I do like that idea, but would put it in my car, as the dedicated power source. I expect cars will come with a lifetime supply of nuclear power before driverless or electric cars are if ever the norm. If the system comes to pass, I'll put another in my home.

Most of the people I know have no use for car sharing either. Very few do not have child transport or other chores as part of their commute.

The last little company I ran, had a factory near Nerang, [Gold Coast]. Only 22 employs but they came from eastern, central, & western Brisbane, Beaudesert, Murwillumbah & widely spread areas of the Gold Coast. There were a few efforts to carpool, but none lasted any time. There were just too many times they all needed to go in different directions after work.

Hasbeen, Tesla's new S model Wagon has a range somewhere north of 400 kilometres and is reasonably priced at I'm told, around 35 grand? Moreover, G.M. is said to be working on a new prototype battery that could double Tesla's range!?

Energy as cheap as thorium, might enable forward thinking councils to put magnetic interfaces under metered parking, which could say, recharge the vehicle to around 80% in around an hour, while you shop, visit the G.P., attend a board meeting, the bowls club or what have you?

Can't died in a cornfield over a century ago!

Yes we need to get serious about safe, clean thorium, if only to ensure our manufacturing sector is completely resuscitated, creating products, jobs, manufactured/value added exports and wealth here in Australia, for Australians!

Not tax avoiding foreigners who repatriate profits that ought to stay here! Where they can do the work of up to seven times their value, via the usual economic flow on factor!
Alan B.

Alan Tesla is only viable while the long suffering US taxpayers continue to fund what is closer to a confidence trick than a car manufacturer.

Those taxpayers have been fleeced of billions by Obama paying back his campaign funders with huge grants to alternate energy companies they started, now long gone.

I expect Tesla to go the same way. Their current recurring losses are huge, & getting bigger. It is only a matter of time.

Electric cars were a blind alley in the early days of the motor industry, & are still a blind alley.

Steam, & nuclear power are the future, but we may have to eliminate the greenies to get there.

Hasbeen: Nuclear technology may have already created a way to mix (liquid) Co2 collected directly from seawater and mix it with (liquid plasma) hydrogen collected from that seawater, combining the two to produce a variety of hydrocarbons? Fuel, and as the sea water gives up its Co2, it replaces it with Co2 drawn from the atmosphere?

If Tesla is running a scam, then so also is GM, who is putting the final touches on a battery said to double the range of Tesla? And there's huge money and people tied up in innovation like battery wall?

That said, I'm with you and would prefer thorium driving our motor vehicles, the farm tractor/harvester and any and all irrigation or desalination requirements!

The RV industry would go bananas if their power came from fueled for a lifetime recreational vehicles? And given an inboard dehumidifier that can make up to 40 litres of fresh water a day! Be able to go off grid for a couple of completely independant months or more? And exactly the solution our home defense forces need!

There are computer controlled four seat self flying VTL cars, currently configured as hybrids! Replacing the conventional combustion engine with a miniaturized thorium reactor? Could massively improve the range, speed and maneuverability of our rapid response forces!

That said, that'll be several decades or more, given some of our legislators/political puppets, I believe, will die in a ditch before they allow an inch of progress in this direction!? And I believe, for sound hip pocket (theirs) reasons!?

The counter attack by the Germans toward the end of WW11, referred to as the battle of the bulge, was only stopped because it ran out of fuel! And on the eastern front, they were beaten by the weather/fuel insecurity!

Thorium power in all our military hardware, would prevent both (similar) outcomes? Monty was slowed at a critical phase, waiting for his fuel supply to catch up?
Alan B.