Over the last few years, Musk has become a sort of hero of the right.

Regardless of where you stand politically, it is a fascinating situation. I remember not too long ago when the right consistently attacked him for taking advantage of government subsidies at his companies.

A few years later, he buys Twitter, reinstates some previously banned conservative accounts, makes fun of Joe Biden and other democrats, starts to talk about "wokeness" and illegal immigration consistently, and now he is loved by the right.

Through this period, the once zealot climate change warrior who quit President Trump's business council because he withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, started talking a lot less about climate change and Tesla's mission to accelerate to world's transition to renewable energy.

On top of running six different companies, Tesla's CEO is virtually a full-time political influencer now.

It is creating an interesting situation. For the first time in a while, Musk decided to use his massively popular X account to promote an idea perceived as left-wing (even though it shouldn't be political): a carbon tax.

Musk wrote: