ELON: REGULATORY MOLASSES SLOWS DOWN OUR MULTIPLANET FUTURE

“Starship is capable of building a city on Mars and a city on the moon.

That's what it's designed to do.

But we're being massively slowed down by regulatory molasses.

I'll tell you a crazy thing.

We got fined $140,000 by the FAA for dumping fresh water on the ground.

Drinking water.

It's obviously an example of just how crazy it is.

We're using water to cool the launch pad during launch.

In an excess of caution, we actually brought in drinking water, super clean water.

And the FAA said no, you have to pay a $140,000 fine.

And we're like, Starbase is in a tropical thunderstorm area, sky water falls all the time.

Then, they said if we don't pay the fine, they're not going to process any of our future applications.

This is the kind of crazy stuff we're dealing with.”

Source: Folsom, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2024