So much to get to. So naturally, we are going to start with this.

Car sales in France are way down.

Year over year, car sales, for whatever reason, are way down in France, down by 6%.

I don't know exactly why that's happening or what it means, if anything, big picture.

I presume it probably sucks for people who sell cars for a living in France. But you know who it

really, really sucks for? It really sucks for Tesla. Because while car sales in France are down by 6%, sales of

Tesla's in France are down by 63%. Not 6%, but 63%. Ooh, I wonder why that is. France is the second largest market for electric cars in all of Europe.

So that's really bad for Tesla, down 63%. The only country in Europe that is a larger market than France

is Germany. In Germany, Tesla sales are down 59%. In Sweden, Tesla sales are down 44%. In Norway,

Tesla sales are down 38%. In the Netherlands, Tesla sales are down 42%. Weird, right? I wonder why that is.

Here on this side of the Atlantic, new polling from the Economist and YouGov looks at how Americans feel about the CEO of Tesla, and specifically his involvement in the U.S. government now, after he spent so much money to get Donald Trump elected to the presidency. Economist in UGov took two polls, one right after the election, and another one this week,

now that Trump's been in office for a couple of weeks.

And look at this. Among Republican voters specifically, the proportion of people who wanted Elon Musk to have, quote, a lot of

influence in the U.S. government. Since the election, it has plummeted by 21 points. We're now down

to only about one in four Republicans wants Elon Musk to have a lot of involvement in the U.S.

government. That has just dropped like a lot of involvement in the U.S. government.

That is just dropped like a stone in a very quick period of time.

Among all other Americans who aren't Republicans,

the proportion of Americans who like the idea of Elon Musk having a lot of influence in the government,

that proportion among Americans who are Democrats is 6%.

The proportion among Americans who are independents is 6%. 6%. 6%. I mean, he's polling at like tooth decay levels, right? That's like funny bone banged into something sharp levels.

Yesterday, around noontime, it was 15 degrees in Waterville, Maine, and it was breezy. It's 2 degrees

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