Volkswagen cant compete with their outdated crap, so now the whole continent must pay for it.
Oh it’s so much worse than that they literally have some kind of weird fetish about electric cars being too simple. The German automakers are complete freaks and perverts. They literally didn’t start making electric cars because they wanted to own the left.
Germany is a fiefdom run by like 10 rich families and their extended families.
The motherfuckers also refused to lower catch limits on fishing in the Mediterranean, these people don’t give a fuck because they’re pretty sure climate change won’t get that bad and their wealth and power will be able to protect them from any form of civil unrest.
I’ve met these billionaires and their children they really are this callous.
Lol no way!
It’s so frustrating to watch these stupid, divisive policies being employed around the world. The need isn’t to seemingly punish those that love a thing, it is to offer an alternative that current methods cannot compete with. All this whole exercise has done is make enemies and caused pushback to the point that we have one step forward and two steps back.
If companies do not get a hard deadline to change, they won’t. In fact, the eu car lobby actively fights against this change that objectively would better lives by not huffing petrol fumes.
They’ll change if the profit is to be made elsewhere. Also the threat of liability can help.
The problem is that new ideas are generally not as profitable as existing ones, even if they are a benefit to society. Volkswagen’s innovations are diesel gate and subsidies demands for petrol cars.
Governments have both the ability to punish and reward. I’m simply trying to promote the latter. Now, one thing I loath is using taxpayer funds to help companies make money, so the research and implementation of a better way has to include an equity stake, or outright ownership.
Yeah, the US would never allow that.
