Elon Musk Is No Climate Hero

WIRED has been writing about Elon Musk--he of the electric cars, space rockets, tunnel-boring machines, implantable brain interfaces, Mars mission, and internet shitposting--for a long time. And yet the most shocking part of his two-hour interview with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, broadcast live on X earlier this week, may just have been what Musk didn't say. It happened around the 50-minute mark, during a very Trumpian discussion of gas and electricity prices. They were up nationally, Trump said, but "when that comes down and [sic] we're going to drill, baby, drill." And Musk, he of the--I'm going to say it again--electric cars and "saving the world" schtick, didn't pipe up until a full two minutes later, when he suggested that Trump set up a "government efficiency commission" to curb government spending.