27 May - 2 June 2019 | 326 comments (326 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Fiat-Chrysler is ready to pay Tesla up to $2.3B for emissions credits so it can meet European car emissions' standards for 2020

EU target of average car CO2 emissions is 95g per kilometer.
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Why Does FCA Need to Buy Emissions Credits?
In 2018, FCA's average CO2 emissions was estimated at 123 grams per kilometer, moreover, the automaker was sued by the US Department of Justice in 2017 for allegedly using software to mislead regulators into thinking its cars were compliant. FCA resolved those charges for $800 million, but it also recently recalled almost 1 million cars in the U.S. for violating emissions standards.

Fiat Chrysler submits proposal for a merger with Renault -- Emissions? What emissions?

The two companies hold stakes in each other, but that alliance has been strained since the arrest of Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn late last year. Ghosn has been charged in Japan with committing financial crimes while serving as CEO of Nissan, charges Ghosn and his lawyers vehemently deny.

Who? Me? Where?

archived EA2020
China's National Carbon Cap and Trade Program
Cap and Trade is better than nothing ...
cabon market pays off
in 2005 the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) set a cap
Energize America
"It never left DailyKos." Netroots nation.
Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed
after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012. Obama no-show.
Who knows what is going on with CO2 credit trading?
&tc.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Jun 4th, 2019 at 04:45:23 PM EST
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2020 hopeful Inslee: Build US foreign policy around climate

Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee wants the U.S. to shape all foreign policy decisions around a commitment to combat the climate crisis, including willingness to use tariffs, other trade incentives and international finance rules to compel other nations to reduce carbon pollution.

< wipes tears >

"Our goal is to re-establish American leadership in the fight against climate crisis and use all the tools in the international relations toolbox," Inslee told The Associated Press.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Jun 5th, 2019 at 01:03:22 PM EST
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Fiat-Chrysler withdraws Renault merger deal, blame French government

A source close to the French carmaker's board said Fiat Chrysler made the move after France sought to delay a decision on the deal in order to win the support of Nissan Motor Co , Renault's Japanese alliance partner.
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The French government, which owns a 15% stake in Renault, had also pushed Fiat Chrysler and Renault for guarantees that France would not lose jobs, and for a dividend to be paid to Renault shareholders, including the government, people familiar with the talks said.

2.5 billion euro ($2.8 billion) special dividend: a very, very good deal

Fiat Chrysler stood to gain access to Renault's superior electric drive technology to meet ["]mandates for zero-emission["] cars.
Renault would have had a share of the Italian-American company's lucrative Jeep sport utility vehicle and RAM pickup truck franchises.
Renault's previous alliance and cross-shareholding [joint venture] with Japanese automaker Nissan had loomed all along as a potential snag. Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa met last week with Renault Chief Executive Jean-Dominique Senard, and said he did not see "any particular negative aspect" to the proposed Renault-Fiat Chrysler merger.

another "forced technology transfer" repelled w/e 9 June

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Jun 6th, 2019 at 07:47:55 AM EST
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Forced or Not? Why U.S. Says China Steals Technology

Another problem is the dominance of state-owned enterprises in some industries. That creates a de facto cartel that China uses to extract concessions from foreign companies, who have no one else to make a deal with.

That concludes lessons on socialism in the USA. There will be no state-owned, "de facto cartel" enterprise in the USA. There will be no single payer.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Jun 17th, 2019 at 10:49:13 AM EST
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legal "cartel" loses volume advantage, exploits diminishing value advantage
AP analysis [not really]: Legal pot for all takes a toll on ["]medical marijuana["] ~~users~~ producers

When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing ["]medical marijuana["] take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients [MARKET SHARE] in just a few years
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Robin Beverett, a 47-year-old disabled Army veteran, said she resumed taking a powerful prescription mood stabilizer to control her anxiety and PTSD when the cost of her ["]medical marijuana["] nearly tripled after California began general sales [sic].

CA Bureau of Cannabis Control reclassifies controlled drugs schedule, retail licenses

States see a "massive exodus" of ["]medical marijuana["] buyers when they legalize marijuana for all adults -- and then, in many cases, the remaining ones struggle, said David Mangone, director of government affairs for Americans for Safe Access.

["]medical marijuana["] producer pricing power, buyers agitate states for supply increase

["]Medical marijuana["] cardholders, for example, used to buy gummies or chocolate bars infused with 400 mg of THC, marijuana's high-inducing element. Now, edibles are capped at 100 mg for ["]medical marijuana["] buyers but cost the same or more. "Who, with any medical condition, needs to be eating 20 pieces of candy a day?" asked Erich Berkovitz, Oregon's last remaining state-licensed medical marijuana processor.

unknown market boundaries, prevailing prices, substitutability, profit margins, clinical controls