Anyone suprised yet that our government is under the thumb of BMW, Mercedes, etc.?
Edit: mostly the thumb of the FDP
From Energiewende back to strip-mining lignite and combustion engines. What a disappointment.
no, one single minister said that, and he’s not representing the entire government on this
In the long term this will be remembered as another pathetic failure by the Scholz government to do even the very bare minimum for the environment.
Honestly this seems like a repeating pattern at this point. Scholz won’t strongly support Ukraine because for some reason he still thinks Russia is an important partner even when it’s utterly negligible economic entity, didn’t consider delaying the nuclear phaseout to alleviate energy shortages, won’t ban even the worst affecting and least efficient use of fossil fuels even while some of the very real negative consequences are showing up.
Seems like this man is deeply stuck in the past and unable to make any meaningful policy decisions.
While bringing back coal…
In the long run, simply placing the appropriate penalties on the coal mine heads, fracture zones, well heads, oil sand mine heads, and the oil shale and oil shale mine heads would work fine.
At 40,000 EU per tonne of lignite, or peat, or coke, or methane, or propane [ or petroleum ]
And a UBI full dividend refund.
Misleading headline, he is talking about “Fahrzeuge mit Verbrennungsmotoren” (internal combustion engine cars), not necessarily fossil-fuel cars only! You might still disagree, put please be aware what he is talking about:
>He justified this by saying that despite the switch to electromobility, there will still be niches for the **internal combustion engine**. In some parts of the world, the switch to electric cars will probably not be possible “even in decades”. **In addition, there must be the option of using new synthetic fuels in the future**.
He basically wants the German car industry to be able to sell fossil-fuel cars around the (third?) world and ice cars using synthetic fuels (probably exclusive race cars, if you take into account how much these fuels will cost) in the domestic market/US/China.
It was a stupid plan anyway. Why keep the option of carbon neutral fuel out? It is the same hate the Greens had for nuclear power that removed a carbon neutral energy source. Now they want to remove another technology just because they don’t like it.
Germany rejected some bullshit plan from out of touch Brussels bureaucrats?
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Anyone suprised yet that our government is under the thumb of BMW, Mercedes, etc.?
Edit: mostly the thumb of the FDP
From Energiewende back to strip-mining lignite and combustion engines. What a disappointment.
no, one single minister said that, and he’s not representing the entire government on this
In the long term this will be remembered as another pathetic failure by the Scholz government to do even the very bare minimum for the environment.
Honestly this seems like a repeating pattern at this point. Scholz won’t strongly support Ukraine because for some reason he still thinks Russia is an important partner even when it’s utterly negligible economic entity, didn’t consider delaying the nuclear phaseout to alleviate energy shortages, won’t ban even the worst affecting and least efficient use of fossil fuels even while some of the very real negative consequences are showing up.
Seems like this man is deeply stuck in the past and unable to make any meaningful policy decisions.
While bringing back coal…
In the long run, simply placing the appropriate penalties on the coal mine heads, fracture zones, well heads, oil sand mine heads, and the oil shale and oil shale mine heads would work fine.
At 40,000 EU per tonne of lignite, or peat, or coke, or methane, or propane [ or petroleum ]
And a UBI full dividend refund.
Misleading headline, he is talking about “Fahrzeuge mit Verbrennungsmotoren” (internal combustion engine cars), not necessarily fossil-fuel cars only! You might still disagree, put please be aware what he is talking about:
>He justified this by saying that despite the switch to electromobility, there will still be niches for the **internal combustion engine**. In some parts of the world, the switch to electric cars will probably not be possible “even in decades”. **In addition, there must be the option of using new synthetic fuels in the future**.
He basically wants the German car industry to be able to sell fossil-fuel cars around the (third?) world and ice cars using synthetic fuels (probably exclusive race cars, if you take into account how much these fuels will cost) in the domestic market/US/China.
It was a stupid plan anyway. Why keep the option of carbon neutral fuel out? It is the same hate the Greens had for nuclear power that removed a carbon neutral energy source. Now they want to remove another technology just because they don’t like it.
Germany rejected some bullshit plan from out of touch Brussels bureaucrats?
Misleading title.