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The passion and inspiration for electric vehicles is way beyond the price of gas. This is about seeing the future and leading change.

Last year, a collection of recent college grads parlayed an impressive spec ad for Tesla into putting their new production company Everdream on the map of major advertisers everywhere. Now Elon Musk’s electric car brand has another stunning piece of free advertising, this time from director Sam O’Hare. Here is a direct video link.

An admiration of Musk’s vision led to picking Tesla as the test brand.  “I’m interested in electric vehicles and the future of transportation, and Tesla are at the forefront of that,” says O’Hare. “I really admire how Elon Musk wants to change the world for the better, and took on the enormous task of developing an amazing electric vehicle, only to share the patents and encourage others to follow his lead. It’s a philosophy you don’t find very often. From SpaceX to the Hyperloop, it feels like he’s actively creating the future.”

The incoming Liberal government promised to “fulfill Canada’s G20 commitment to phase out subsidies for the fossil fuel industry,” in their election platform. Will they deliver?

Canada’s fossil fuel industries are the recipients of $2.7 billion US ($3.6 billion CDN)  in handouts each year, despite a promise from all G20 nations, including Canada, to eliminate subsidies in 2009.

About $1.6 billion US of those subsidies came from the federal government with the rest distributed by the provinces, according to a new report from Oil Change International.

The report finds G20 countries spend about $452 billion US each year to prop up their oil, gas and coal industries.

Read:  Canada subsidizes fossil fuels by $2.7 billion every year. Where does that money go?

A. Gary Shilling & Co. President Gary Shilling speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance. Here is a direct video link.