SpaceX Is Quick to Build in Texas, Slow to Pay Its Bills

Monday, May 13, 2024

A Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are to break ground. Unpaid bills and finger-pointing among contractors, Reuters found, have led many construction-industry businesses to file liens against SpaceX properties in efforts to get compensated.

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... The result, several of those businesses told Reuters, is a reluctance to work on SpaceX-related projects again. "If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to --- off," said Brian Rozelle, an owner of Hydroz Energy Services LLC.

The excavating business was hired by SpaceX to clear storm drains at a facility near Brownsville, the south Texas city where much of the company's development has taken place. Until about two weeks after Hydroz filed a lien last June " months after it had performed the work -- SpaceX didn't pay its $19,214 bill.

"We're not some hundred-million-dollar company," Rozelle said. "It was hard on us."

SpaceX didn't respond to requests from Reuters for comment on the liens and complaints from subcontractors and suppliers. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-13 02:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Slow to Pay Its Bills"

Elmo is learning a lot from Donald.

#2 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-05-13 06:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"I didn't get rich by signing checks."
-Bill Gates on the Simpsons

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-05-13 07:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

No wonder Elmo's so enamored with the fat------------- and the fas ist Reich, they are birds of a feather.

#4 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-05-14 01:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Wow another right wing con artist that doesn't pay his bills.

How unique. /sarcasm.

"Slow to Pay Its Bills"

Elmo is learning a lot from Donald.

Listening to the testimony from Cohen yesterday the fat loser had every intention to slow walk the payment to Daniels in the hopes of weaseling out of it and she grabbed him by the pu**y threatening to release it to another outlet. Such a fkg loser.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-05-14 07:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm sure fElon will call this aggravated assault on his character and whine about his being a victim.

The first rule of GOP is they are ALWAYS a victim.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-05-14 10:07 AM | Reply

Right wingers love capitalism.
Except when it's time to pay their bills.
P0113, Musk, Rooty Tooter, Lindell...

#7 | Posted by northguy3 at 2024-05-14 06:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#7 ... Right wingers love capitalism.
Except when it's time to pay their bills. ...

Maybe, just maybe, that is why they love Capitalism.

They can make others make up for the bills to vendors they do not pay.

The GOP does seem t be aware of that concept.

Back in the 90's when Republicans were all in favor of the healthcare mandate, one of the reasons given was that they were tired of higher medical bills because of those who could not pay their medical bills.

Hence the GOP-initiated healthcare mandate.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-14 07:09 PM | Reply