Biden Caught in Huge Rigging of EV Carbon Credits at Taxpayer Expense - 94% Increase ($550 million) For Tesla (29% of Tesla's income is from these Carbon Credits)
Posted by freedomforall 3 months, 1 week ago to Politics
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"Tesla is a huge beneficiary of an improper “no legal basis” Biden-sponsored subsidy. This is a massive scandal reminiscent of the diesel-emissions cheating that rocked Germany.
Carbon Tax Credits
The Biden administration and the Department of Energy colluded to rig estimated gas mileage from EVs.
For example, a Tesla that gets the equivalent of 65 MPG, receives tax credits as if the Tesla gets 430 MPG.
Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
The Wall Street Journal comments on The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
It’s hard to think of a worse environmental scandal in recent years than Volkswagen’s 2015 diesel-emissions cheating. The German automaker was rightly pursued by regulators, enforcement agencies and class-action lawyers.
The scandal ended up costing Volkswagen an estimated $33 billion in fines and financial settlements—and revealed that diesel-emissions cheating was endemic.
When it comes to electric cars, the government has a cheating scandal of its own. Under an Energy Department rule, carmakers can arbitrarily multiply the efficiency of electric cars by 6.67. This means that although a 2022 Tesla Model Y tests at the equivalent of about 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid), it is counted as having an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.
Until recently, this subsidy was a Washington secret. Carmakers and regulators liked it that way. Regulators could announce what sounded like stringent targets, and carmakers would nod along, knowing they could comply by making electric cars with arbitrarily boosted compliance values. Consumers would unknowingly foot the bill.
The secret is out. After environmental groups pointed out the illegality of this charade, the Energy Department proposed eliminating the 6.67 multiplier for electric cars, recognizing that the number “lacks legal support” and has “no basis.” [Let’s not mince words, how about … illegal subsidy]
Carmakers have panicked and asked the Biden administration to delay any return to legal or engineering reality. That is understandable. Without the multiplier, the Transportation Department’s proposed rules are completely unattainable. But workable rules don’t require government-created cheat codes. Carmakers should confront that problem head on."
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D.C. has betrayed the people for decades. D.C. is utterly corrupt.
NIFO It's the only way to be sure.
NIFO the looting scum at Davos, too.
They are traitors to the people.
"Tesla is a huge beneficiary of an improper “no legal basis” Biden-sponsored subsidy. This is a massive scandal reminiscent of the diesel-emissions cheating that rocked Germany.
Carbon Tax Credits
The Biden administration and the Department of Energy colluded to rig estimated gas mileage from EVs.
For example, a Tesla that gets the equivalent of 65 MPG, receives tax credits as if the Tesla gets 430 MPG.
Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
The Wall Street Journal comments on The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal
It’s hard to think of a worse environmental scandal in recent years than Volkswagen’s 2015 diesel-emissions cheating. The German automaker was rightly pursued by regulators, enforcement agencies and class-action lawyers.
The scandal ended up costing Volkswagen an estimated $33 billion in fines and financial settlements—and revealed that diesel-emissions cheating was endemic.
When it comes to electric cars, the government has a cheating scandal of its own. Under an Energy Department rule, carmakers can arbitrarily multiply the efficiency of electric cars by 6.67. This means that although a 2022 Tesla Model Y tests at the equivalent of about 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid), it is counted as having an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.
Until recently, this subsidy was a Washington secret. Carmakers and regulators liked it that way. Regulators could announce what sounded like stringent targets, and carmakers would nod along, knowing they could comply by making electric cars with arbitrarily boosted compliance values. Consumers would unknowingly foot the bill.
The secret is out. After environmental groups pointed out the illegality of this charade, the Energy Department proposed eliminating the 6.67 multiplier for electric cars, recognizing that the number “lacks legal support” and has “no basis.” [Let’s not mince words, how about … illegal subsidy]
Carmakers have panicked and asked the Biden administration to delay any return to legal or engineering reality. That is understandable. Without the multiplier, the Transportation Department’s proposed rules are completely unattainable. But workable rules don’t require government-created cheat codes. Carmakers should confront that problem head on."
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D.C. has betrayed the people for decades. D.C. is utterly corrupt.
NIFO It's the only way to be sure.
NIFO the looting scum at Davos, too.
They are traitors to the people.
They have so cockamamie formula to assess an equivalence between gasoline energy and electric energy. Taking nothing into account about how the electricity was generated. There is always a massive carbon footprint no matter how we generate electricity. Some worse some better.
GM and Ford are nearing bankruptcy? Not so long after they had a meeting with Biden? Musk was pissed off he wasn't invited, he should have been happy!
When Biden shows up to say, "I'm from the government, I'm here to help," those are the 8 scary words Reagan was talking about!!!
Maybe they shoved EVs through in order to destroy the auto businesses, lay people off, outsource the labor, cause more suffering...hold a short position on the companies? How much more of a guarantee it is to short a company, destroy it, make a profit...instead of invest, hope and push for success.
Hey if everyone is slaughtering their animals for pennies. I don't know.
Wall St has been destroying small businesses by having an insider on the BoD
and spreading the close held news, and profiting from that for 100+ years.
It should be criminal but Wall St controls the watchdog agency so the
power to destroy stays with Wall St.