http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/tesla-sales-ban_n_4992758.html
Texas, Arizona Beg Tesla To Build Factories While Banning It From Selling Cars
Lawmakers in two states where Tesla can’t sell its cars are hoping the company will bring them thousands of jobs anyway.
Texas and Arizona are each competing to be the future home of a new lithium-ion battery factory that Tesla estimates
could create 6,500 jobs. These states are business-friendly, their representatives claim.
But neither state has been very friendly to Tesla: Both say
Tesla can't sell cars there without using independent car dealers. New Jersey joined them last week, with a new rule cutting Tesla out of that state's huge luxury-car market. Nevada and New Mexico, which are also in the running to host the new plant, called a "Gigafactory," don't have such rules.
That's not stopping Arizona and Texas from trying to woo Tesla anyway:
All nine of Arizona's U.S. representatives wrote a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, urging him to build the new factory in that state. The mayors of Tucson and Mesa, Arizona, have
made the same pitch. Texas state representative Jason Villaba
wrote Musk earlier this month trying to lure him to that state.
In his letter,
first reported by the Texas Tribune, Villaba noted that Texas has no personal or corporate income tax and is a “right-to-work” state (no unions allowed, in other words). The
Arizona congressmen wrote that their state is "one of the most business-friendly" in the nation.