German identity doesn’t rely on cars – Brussels should face down the mighty automakers. Mercedes-Benz and other big manufacturers want to overturn the EU’s 2035 ban on petrol cars. This would be as disastrous for jobs as for the climate.

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1. They can make petrol cars, so long as the fuel is zero-emission. That refill will not be cheap.

   Another theoretical solution would be to sell regular petrol coupled with a carbon dioxyde removal credit, but that is not possible because there will not be enough carbon credits to balance unabatable sectors, so they shouldn’t be used to offset petrol cars’ emissions.

   Incidently, carbon removal should cover 10% of our emissions.
   Hard to abate sectors (aviation, shipping, cement, steel and chemicals) represent about 25% of our emissions. Cattle production adds 12-19%.
   So the 10% of carbon removal are clearly insufficient.

   Not to mention that creating those 10% by 2050 is very unlikely to happen. The scaling up required is phenomenal, all for a product that nobody really wants to buy anyway, unless they are forced to.

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