When are these people going to jail?

 From the American Thinker, Jack Hellner has a piece entitled So filled with fraud: The green agenda and the rich who benefit from it. If you have had the feeling that you are being gaslighted by the media and the car companies pushing EVs, you are right.

The federal government essentially has ordered electric car companies to commit fraud.

Here's the headline:

The Electric-Vehicle Cheating Scandal

A government rule makes them look nearly seven times as efficient as they are.

Here's what's from the article:

"When carmakers test gasoline powered vehicles for compliance with the Transportation Department's fuel efficiency rules, they must use real values measured in a laboratory. By contrast, 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 65 miles per gallon in a laboratory (roughly the same as a hybrid). It is counted as an absurdly high compliance value of 430 mpg. That number has no basis in reality or law.

For exaggerating electric car efficiency, the government rewards the carmakers with compliance credits which the can trade for cash, Economists estimate these credits could be worth billions, a vast cross-subsidy invented by bureaucrats and paid for by every person who buys a gasoline powered car."

So, how did Elon Musk become the richest man in the world? Was it because he is some kind of super-genius? Well, not exactly. Musk became rich in part by selling carbon credits to Ford and GM, so they could make money on their very good selling trucks and SUVs. Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with gas powered trucks and SUVs. I do have a problem with so-called "carbon credits" which function much as indulgences did in the middle ages. Back then, the Catholic Church sold "indulgences" to rich people to supposedly forgive their sins and thus get them a reprieve from Purgatory. Carbon credits are equally useless in getting rid of CO2, but do make money for the hucksters selling them. Oh, and they cost you and me a lot of money each time we buy a vehicle.

"Until recently, this subsidy was a government 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 cars with arbitrarily boosted compliance values, Consumers would unknowingly foot the bill."

In other words, the government, the carmakers and the green pushers knew this was a massive fraud but they didn't care. They were greedy and the radical green agenda was all that mattered. The people are irrelevant, especially the poor and middle class. And of course, Democrat campaign workers posing as journalists, have participated in perpetuating the fraud by just repeating talking points without doing research or asking questions.

So, when are these people going to jail?