In an interview, the German chancellor said he believes the ban is 'wrong,' as Germany's auto giants struggle to stay competitive against Chinese electric carmakers.
Please literally replace any instance of “German’s Merz” with “Coal, Gas & Car lobby”
On the topic (autotranslated):
“PURPLE – Change from the VDA”: A leaked position paper from the Union shows how the party allows entire passages to be dictated by the automotive industry lobby association. No problem for the CDU.
The ironic thing is that all this won’t help the German car industry at all. The transition to EVs is inevitable and it is coming fast. For Germany, this means that a lot of people in so far pretty well-off regions are either going to need new jobs, or will depend on welfare - the same way as coal workers in the Ruhr area in the 1980ies, or ship builders in Bremerhaven, Glasgow and Manchester in the 90ies.
And that’s also the consequence of using a “market-driven approach”. If you want the market to take care of the clean energy transition by pricing, you accept that any companies that don’t adapt will go bust.
Please literally replace any instance of “German’s Merz” with “Coal, Gas & Car lobby”
On the topic (autotranslated):
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/cdu-uebernimmt-ganze-passagen-vom-lobbyverband-der-autoindustrie-a-b2e50c86-bf61-4d5e-95bd-27db95989b40
Merz: „I am the lobby.“ (in Palpatine‘s voice.)
The ironic thing is that all this won’t help the German car industry at all. The transition to EVs is inevitable and it is coming fast. For Germany, this means that a lot of people in so far pretty well-off regions are either going to need new jobs, or will depend on welfare - the same way as coal workers in the Ruhr area in the 1980ies, or ship builders in Bremerhaven, Glasgow and Manchester in the 90ies.
And that’s also the consequence of using a “market-driven approach”. If you want the market to take care of the clean energy transition by pricing, you accept that any companies that don’t adapt will go bust.