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Yesterday I heard a story about the Chinese green energy industry.

The government subsidizes companies that run city transportation services. The subsidy amount is determined by the overall mileage (of clean energy buses) a company has served during one year.

So those companies raise their clean energy buses with a jack and let them run continuously to update the odometers in order to collect the money.



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