Motoring may be set to see a Great Reset in 2035, with the German government announcing they want an EU-wide ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars.
Combustion engine cars should go the way of the dinosaur from 2035, according to the German government, who have announced they are backing a plan to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars in the EU from that year on. [bold, links added]
Despite the country initially resisting Europe-wide legislation pushing for zero-emission cars, the Federal Republic has since about-faced on the idea of a motoring Great Reset and will join others in the bloc looking to begin phasing out hydrocarbon-burning vehicles by 2035 or earlier.
According to a report by POLITICO, the announcement that Germany will be supporting a Europe-wide ban was to be made during a meeting of EU environment ministers, according to the German Green party’s Steffi Lemke.
“The new German government stands behind the [European] Commission’s draft and thus fully supports the end of the internal combustion engine [for cars and vans] in the EU from 2035,” POLITICO reports the Green Party environment minister, Steffi Lemke, as saying.
“I would have wanted intermediate steps and more ambitious steps,” the minister added, saying that she would prefer the EU proposals had been more hardline — though she noted that the rapid expansion of the electric vehicle market could make it possible to “accelerate” the process of implementing restrictions.
“For vehicle types that are not covered by the CO2 standards — I always take the example of ambulances, or possibly tractors — you will possibly have to find solutions,” Lemke conceded.
“But as far as the standards are concerned, that means new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles [with] internal combustion engines will no longer be allowed after 2035.”
The German state’s new support for a ban on combustion engine cars marks a sizable U-turn for the country, which had previously been resistant to measures limiting vehicle CO2 emissions — likely as a result of the country’s expansive combustion engine-reliant automotive industry.
However, while Germany’s change in policy is significant, it is not exactly unexpected, with the country’s new left-wing coalition having promised to push a green environmentalist agenda during their time in office.
This enthusiasm is not shared by everyone though, and while the new ‘Traffic Light’ coalition government of the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP) may be convinced that a green Great Reset should be pushed to the nth degree, the German population seems to think otherwise, with recent data suggesting that people have serious concerns about their environmental policies.
According to a representative poll of over 1,000 people, 52 percent of Germans believe that the new government’s climate policy will have an overall negative effect on Germany’s “social climate.”
What’s more, a further 49 percent believe that the nation’s green agenda will have negative effects for them personally, with that number rising to 61 percent when only Germans in the east of the country are polled.
On the face of it, these opinions do not appear unreasonable, considering the German government’s unceasing desire to decommission its remaining nuclear power plants, despite facing a serious energy crisis as a result of the spiraling cost of Russian natural gas.
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A very good idea. It means, if we don’t have an electric or atomic or pedal or wind driven car, we can’t go to work. Splendid, the Gov (or the future Mr Putinski) will pay us to stay on 24/7/52 holidays; and all our other bills too. Don’t tell them, they might change their minds.
Germany needs better leadership then the bunch of imbeciles running them right now
Germany highways may start looking Cuba highways.
It is difficult to understand why liberals believe that electric cars are possible on a large scale. Even the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, volunteered in an interview that the average American family couldn’t afford one of his vehicles. Some of the liberal elite may assume that everyone can afford one because they and their friends can. Others with a more realistic view might believe that the average person shouldn’t own a car. They are not aware or don’t care about the impact of the additional time to use public transportation. For many this adds stress of a longer day, and makes activities such as a kids’ sports or church activities during the week impossible. These elite either don’t know or don’t care about those of us can’t afford an electric car and live in rural areas that will never be serviced by public transportation.
There is an effort in the US and other countries to make charging stations widely available. This does no good what so ever if the power isn’t there. Many power grids are barely able to support their current load. The liberals are making this worse by closing power plants and tearing down dams. The effort to use renewable energy has failed. California has tried to rely on renewable energy and now buys 15% of its power from neighboring states. Germany’s effort on renewable energy resulted in them building power plants and buying coal from Russia. If enough families can afford an electric car, the power won’t be there.
Perhaps many of those who believe we should go to electric cars do so from a simple thought process. It sounds good and they couldn’t be bothered by the details.
And where do these fools think the batteries are going to come from to make up for all the IC vehicles that are presently being sold? The article posted here a few days ago laid out the incredible amount of ore and brine needed to make even one battery. But the Germans and the EU elite don’t care because these mines are NIMBY but are located in countries with few if any environmental protections.
Germany on a fools mission to prevent a fake crisis look what happens when a whole nation is run by idiots and liberals