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Environmental Credits seem more like a scheme than anything else. It sounds like politicians giving lip service to the people while keeping lobbyists happy. Re
by wil421 7y ago
Environmental Credits seem more like a scheme than anything else. It sounds like politicians giving lip service to the people while keeping lobbyists happy.
Regardless, it’s nice to see GM and FCA are benefiting Tesla is some ways. It would be really interested to see a powered by Tesla GM/FCA car. Tesla provides engines and battery and the other carmaker makes a car around it. A partnership with a huge car company could help Tesla with production issues and provide a cash boost.
- robert_foss 7y agoIt is a scheme, that internalizes what otherwise would have been an external cost (environmental impact) for GM & Fiat (and the other manufacturers). This should provide them at least some incentive to improve their environmental impact.
- jumbopapa 7y agoI would say that cap and trade is a fairly popular solution to curbing externalities in the field of economics.
- adrianN 7y agoIf the caps would be reduced by meaningful amounts every year so that we reach carbon neutrality in fifteen years or so that would be true. But nobody is doing that.
- mac01021 7y agoCap & Trade is weird. How are the caps set, based on what? And the system doesn't even reimburse the people who bear the externalized cost. If you want to address an externality, just address it directly by fee & dividend.
- Double_a_92 7y agoA scheme that is working as intended. Producers of pollution are supporting (or almost forced to support)greener competitors.