12.17.25 – C&C News

“Elon Poised To Own Ground Transportation, the Skies, and the Underground”

By Jeff Childers, practicing attorney and popular writer

 

Excerpt from this article:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/not-boring-wednesday-december-17?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=1popxz&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

…Elon Musk is enjoying a moment

 

It’s becoming difficult to describe him as anything less than a modern-day Thomas Edison

 

TESLA STOCK

First, Tesla Corporation stock surged this week to a record high, up +21% over the last 30 days, after the carmaker quietly released an update to its self-driving platform that, by most accounts, is now mere inches from safe, fully automated driving….

 

Say what you will about preferring driving yourself, but Tesla’s self-driving technology promises to revolutionize transportation, and nobody else is even close.

 

The latest release, for example, lets drivers talk to Grok AI, which can adjust the car’s navigation in real time.

“Grok, I really need to go,” they can say, and the AI will find and route an emergency bathroom break in the nick of time— without reminding them they just had to stop forty minutes ago…

 

But Tesla’s stock surge was mere pocket change. 

 

Musk is also preparing to take his next company public, and it will almost certainly smash all historic records…

 

SPACE X THRIVING

Commenters noticed that SpaceX’s conservative valuation of $800 billion (Elon owns 42%) will make the private rocket company bigger than the rest of the military-industrial complex put together

 

According to nearly every estimate, an $800 billion valuation is the low end

 

Note that it’s NOT just rockets. 

 

STARLINK

SpaceX owns the global satellite-based internet service, Starlink, which literally has every living human being as a potential customer

 

Some analysts predict SpaceX’s value could increase tenfold by 2030. 

 

…There’s more.

 

ELON’S AMAZING ROBOTS THAT DIG

Elon’s quietest and “least interesting” company is softly starting to fill the back-page headlines. 

 

The company bears the tongue-in-cheek name, “The Boring Company,” and it makes digging robots.

 

His robot diggers can tunnel through rock at a tenth of the cost, and ten times the speed, of traditional mining techniques, which still rely on technology considered unremarkable at the time of the Spanish Land Grant.

 

UNDERGROUND TUNNEL BEING BUILT NOW UNDERNEATH LAS VEGAS

… a technological revolution has been tunneling its way under the dry desert sands of Las Vegas.

 

The best way to describe “The Loop” is as a kind of subway system beneath Sin City. 

 

The contract was awarded in 2019, and most of the work was completed in eighteen months between contract award to opening

 

I defy you to find any example of a subway being built that fast.

 

The Loop has continued expanding and by this year, the Boring Company has installed a series of stations for resort and conference guests that is currently completing —wait for itaround 32,000 trips per day

 

There are currently six operating stops on the Strip and downtown, with more scheduled to open next year, including between the Strip and the airport, with 90 more stations already permitted.

 

The major innovation isn’t only the digging robots. 

 

UNDERGROUND ROADWAY RUNS IN A CIRCLE – JUST USES TESLAS

Instead of subway cars, the Boring Company just uses Teslas. 

 

So it doesn’t need to build out a giant infrastructure of rails, trains, controllers, safety systems, fire suppression, and so forth

 

It’s just an underground roadway that runs in a circle

 

Passengers wait to board the next car that comes around. 

 

They each get their own private cars, which is nice and quiet…

 

The company just received a contract to start building a system in Nashville, with an initial dig between the airport and downtown

 

Rumored negotiations for other projects include Dubai, Houston, and Los Angeles

 

Traditional subway construction has slowed to a snail’s pace in the U.S., since the [traditional] projects typically take 50 years and untold billions to complete

 

But around the world, subway construction is booming, providing fertile ground for Elon’s Boring Company once it gets its motorized spinners moving…

 

Can you see it yet? 

 

ELON OWNS ALL THREE DOMAINS

Elon is poised to own all three domains: (1) ground transportation, (2) the skies, and (3) the underground

 

…In other words, the sky is literally the limit. 

 

No wonder media is speculating about Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire... 

 

[***“Musk is now the first person ever worth $600 billion or more. No one else has ever been worth $500 billion.” -- https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/12/15/elon-musk-just-became-the-first-person-ever-worth-600-billion/ ]

 

And we haven’t even mentioned Twitter/X, xAI, or Neuralink. Those remain in the pipeline.

 

ELON ALREADY INVESTING IN REPUBLICANS

I spoke earlier about Republicans enjoying a major fundraising advantage for the 2026 midterms. 

 

That doesn’t even include the advantage of having the world’s richest and arguably smartest man —certainly the world’s most productive inventor— on the GOP’s side. 

 

And he’s already mobilized to support Republican candidates during the midterm elections.

 

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