Maybe Germany should scrap Merz instead?
I am so fucking fed up with every right wing numbnut calling it a combustion engine ban. It does not ban combustion engines.
All manufacturers need to do, is make their combustion engines clean, then they can continue selling them 2035 and beyond. But it’s obvious, they are incapable of doing so, combustion engines have been pretty stagnant, almost as if they have reached their limits…
Please literally replace any instance of “German’s Merz” with “Coal, Gas & Car lobby”
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.
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.
It’s not a combustion engine ban. it’s about not producing new ones.
It’s a phase out, right?
EU says Germany should scrap Merz’s blatant support for Oil and Gas industry.
We know it is the car industry, since there was a leak, which showed Merz party having their position directly edited by one of their lobbying organizations.
Germany is intressting in that basically all the oil assets are foreign owned. For gas the big lobbying group are the utilities.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.
Or this is probably just a coincidence: Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales
A paper was recently leaked that the CDU‘s (Merz’s party) position on these topics is directly dictated by the car industry.
I just hope the other EU countries do not allow this.
No paywall: https://archive.is/SUJqL
“We made the wrong decision, and we will correct it,” said the German chancellor at a conference of his SME association in Cologne. He would “put a spoke in Brussels’ wheel.”
It’s insane how they fetishize fossiles.
Ah, German nazis blaming other races for their supposed “weakness”? But German electric cars are some of the best in the world, so this is just stupid and weird nazi propaganda.