I'm going to make you feel better, now... When I bought my Tesla Model X, since Tesla doesn't have dealers, I had to pay $10,000 sales tax and registration when I registered it in my home state!
I agree about wealthy people using the incentive/rebate. Most wealthy people got there by being smart with their money. Conversely, many poor people got there by poor choices.
A wealthy friend of mine once said, "How do you think a man like me got to be a man like me?"
My brother in Ohio is off the grid, but luckily has a gas well to power his generator as needed. He is also a windmill distributor, but there is not enough wind to rely on for a generator.
Will you have any backup?
Since I live in Shreveport, LA and have a reservation for the CyberTruck (AND own a 2017 Model X), I would like to encourage Elon to look at our old GM plant (abandoned since 2008) as a possible manufacturing facility. He needs a plant in the middle of the country and we are ideally located...