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A settlement. That’ll really put the emissions back in the ground
Fines clearly don’t work. We need criminal penalties.
They don’t work because they are super low.
If the fines cost more than what companies gain from cheating, they will be a lot less inclined to cheat.
But in this case, this is a joke fine.
@mondoman712 $24 per vehicle?
That is a joke.
Fines can work, when people expect the fines to actually hurt.
Fines are only a punishment for the poor.
6 million cars, the fine is $140 million. That’s $24 or so per car. There’s no way that GM saved only $24/car doing this. So the fine is just a cost of doing business.
EDIT:
The company has also voluntarily retired about 50 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution credits, which are issued by the E.P.A. and used by auto companies to make it easier to comply with increasingly stringent federal tailpipe emissions standards. G.M. estimates the value of the loss of the credits at about $300 million, reflecting what it paid for them a decade or so ago. However, the market value of those carbon credits varies, and a more recent government estimate of $86 per credit would put the value at about $4.6 billion.
This is probably where the actual sting to them is.
Fuck SUVs in particular.
That’s how many major car companies caught bullshitting emissions requirements now? It’s almost as if there’s some kind of underlying thing driving (pun unintended but welcome ;3 Call it comic relief if you like) capitalist entities toward awful behaviour.
An invisible hand made me do it!
And thanks to the overturning of Chevron, the EPA is unable to do anything.
From the streetcar conspiracy to this. GM sure has an illustrious history.
Quite honestly, which auto company hasn’t cheated emissions testing?
“Oh, you lied and fucked up? If you pay us some money, we’ll look the other way 😉”
Ofc
People shit on CA smog tests but if every state had them, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue and the states would generate more revenue.
How do you emit excess CO2? Like I can imagine if it isn’t burning clean and shitting out CO or particulates or something, but wouldn’t “excess CO2” just mean they’re just inefficient?
Do they not meet their mileage ratings?
They had standard to meet that a vehicle of a certain weight/class must not exceed certain amount of emissions. They made vehicles that didn’t meet that standard, shrugged and put them to market anyway because they knew the profits would outweigh any “punishment” fron the spineless regulatory bodies.
The whoe CAFE standards and the shift in car sizes associated with them should be enough evidence to prove the EPA has failed and become disconnected from its true purposes
Yeah I get that. I think it’s just odd to phrase it as emitting too much CO2, and not getting poor mileage.
