The EU has decided that the climate can only be saved if everyone drives around in electric cars. But it is a circus, writes Erling Pedersen in this debate post.
"The junta in Brussels has decided that in order to save the Earth's climate, it is necessary for everyone in the EU to drive an electric car. As a result, petrol and diesel cars must not be sold in the EU after 2035.
In addition, the junta has set demands on car manufacturers for maximum CO 2 emissions from 2025. The demand applies as an average to the cars the factory produces.
If the requirement is not met, there will be large stalls. VW alone risks a fine for the year 2025 of DKK 15 billion. As it is technically impossible to comply with the requirements for petrol and diesel cars, it is necessary to also produce some electric cars that can be counted in the statistics.
But unfortunately there are not many people who want to buy the electric cars. This applies especially in the large countries of Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
In January 2024, the distribution of cars sold in the EU was 85.2% petrol and diesel and 10.9% electric. Therefore, the latter must be sold at a loss. Losses that the factories then have to recover from artificially high prices for petrol and diesel cars. This makes it almost impossible for European factories to compete with China.
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An electric car on the street costs considerably more than a petrol or diesel car, despite the fact that the state gives much larger subsidies, and the petrol and diesel cars pay a hidden subsidy to the battery cars.
Many have said that the wet dreams about the green transition will never come to fruition, because when the population discovers how much it will cost, they will kick in. They are undoubtedly right. If we were asked!
But we don't do that. The bill is listed as a subsidy from the state and as a loss in state-owned companies, and the money is collected via tax. The roughly 60 billion that must be used to strengthen the electricity grid will be collected from the electricity bill. We only discover it when the bill arrives, and then very few people know why.
The most grotesque thing is that the electric car is really bad for the CO 2 accounts, because in practice it runs on electricity produced on fossil fuels.
But now the juntas in Brussels and Christiansborg have decided that this is how it must be, so it must be implemented. Regardless of the price.”
The debate entry was first published on klimarealisme.dk on March 9, 2024.
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