So, if we know this is happening and we know where… why don’t we peacefully protest with some highly flammable, totally innocuous items on us?

Propaganda works.

I work in parts in Niagara. Teslas make up less than 1% of our sales. Tesla dealerships do not correlate to the GM plant shut down at all, in any way. The CEO of the company which owns these dealerships (since unlike every other dealership in the world each brick and mortar dealership is privately owned by Tesla, as opposed to franchised) arguably bears most of the responsibility for the continued downturn of the industry.