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Filed under: Toyota , Legislation and Policy Toyota Prius PHEV - click above for high-res image gallery Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most popular approach has been to offer credits to those that exceed emissions reduction targets. Those credits can then be sold to other emitters that are failing to hit targets for any number of reasons. However, the question is who should get the credit for reducing vehicle emissions. California is currently planning to start giving carbon credits in 2010, but at least a part of those credits will be going to utilities in return for upgrading infrastructure to support plug-in vehicles. Toyota, which, along with other automakers, will be required to sell some number of plug-in vehicles... http://www.depozitul.net/2009/10/who-s...