As the car industry’s largest hybrid pusher, Toyota says it is better positioned to just buy credits to close the EPA gap rather than “waste” money on BEVs, its CEO said.
But they don’t work at all - they’re just playing with numbers, it’s not actually accomplishing anything
Not only that, but the big green credit sellers are so fraudulent that they’ve been caught selling the same forest that already wasn’t going to be developed multiple times over. A bunch of “green” companies had to take off their carbon neutral claims last year when it came out
Unfortunately credits are totally fake. “So you have land with vegitation you already plan to conserve or farm? Let me help you make money on that and pretend we are saving it.”
Credits need to be abolished. It just lets polluters keep polluting with no incentive to change.
Or at the least, they should be more expensive.
They’re not backed by reality
Honestly this is the only thing that will work. You’ve got to speak their language. Fines aren’t a deterrent unless it REALLY hurts.
But they don’t work at all - they’re just playing with numbers, it’s not actually accomplishing anything
Not only that, but the big green credit sellers are so fraudulent that they’ve been caught selling the same forest that already wasn’t going to be developed multiple times over. A bunch of “green” companies had to take off their carbon neutral claims last year when it came out
I’m down with making the fines hurt though
Unfortunately credits are totally fake. “So you have land with vegitation you already plan to conserve or farm? Let me help you make money on that and pretend we are saving it.”