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riversedge

(74,179 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 11:55 AM Jan 15

Toyota exposed for funding climate denialism designed to slow EV transition T

Source: alternet


January 15, 2025

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But a Tuesday report from watchdog group Public Citizen reveals how Toyota has spent recent years becoming the largest funder of U.S. lawmakers who deny the existence of the climate emergency, and a major opponent to the expansion of electric vehicles.

In the report, titled Driving Denial...............

Top climate-denying beneficiaries of Toyota include U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who received $10,000 from Toyota in during the 2024 cycle—the maximum amount allowed—and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), who received $7,000 after he called for the end of EV tax credits and demanded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) be eliminated.

Between 2020-24, Toyota's political action committee (PAC) has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to right-wing lawmakers including Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)—giving a total of "$808,500 to the campaigns of congressional candidates that deny or question the existence of climate change," according to Public Citizen.

Despite Toyota's reputation as a hybrid car innovator, said Zuckerman, "the world's largest automaker has quietly spent the past several years building a powerful U.S. influence operation in an effort to delay the transition to electric vehicles.".........................


Read more: https://www.alternet.org/climate-toyota/

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Toyota exposed for funding climate denialism designed to slow EV transition T (Original Post) riversedge Jan 15 OP
well . . Richard D Jan 15 #1
Damn, no more Toyota/Lexus products for me. MLAA Jan 15 #2
And I was actually considering a Toyota EV to replace my 2005 Toyota Corolla ... generalbetrayus Jan 15 #3
The belief that having an electric car has anything to do with climate... NNadir Jan 15 #4
What a frigging bunch of crooks including Toyota. Fla Dem Jan 15 #5
Pretty soon the list will be so long Mosby Jan 15 #6

NNadir

(35,103 posts)
4. The belief that having an electric car has anything to do with climate...
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:24 PM
Jan 15

...is a rather pernicious, but widely believed myth.

Electricity is not "green." It is a thermodynamically degraded form of energy, overwhelmingly produced by the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels with a significant amount of exergy destruction.

On my grid, the PJM (middle Atlantic), including the embodied energy of an electric vehicle's manufacture, it is reported in the scientific literature, as I noted in a post here, and electric car is worse than a gasoline internal combustion engine.

I'm on a cell phone now, so I can't provide the link.

On my grid, the car I drive, a Toyota Camry Hybrid has the lowest climate impact of any type of car. This does not make my car "green" but it makes it less obnoxious than competing types of cars. The reason is exergy recovery from dangerous fossil fuel combustion.

One of the reasons the climate is collapsing is public scientific mythology including the bald faced lie that electricity is clean. It isn't.

Fla Dem

(26,235 posts)
5. What a frigging bunch of crooks including Toyota.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:13 PM
Jan 15

Willing to let floods, droughts and other climate calamities worsen just so they can line their pockets with bribe money.

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