Ape brain Autobahn mentality. Thank you (Sch)Merz.
How about fixing the disastrous German train network?
But which industry lobbyists would pay them then?
Bribe money from Deutsche Bahn was on its way to Berlin, but the train was cancelled due to a technical issue.
May be it was due to quantum improbability
nope nope. no need. what we need instead is to have incentives for car users to convert to European-made electric cars or to bikes and public transit!
at most, we need to support European car companies to stay up (to avoid the US ones overflooding the market, since those are often not compliant with EU rules). that can be done by incentivising them to go electric/hydrogen, or even solar.
So embarrassed for our government. Doing everything to make sure our industry does not have any future for a more month of profits.
Then, they'll just sob and cry for bailouts when people ultimately switch to cheaper chinese EVs after being shafted for the upteenth time by gas price hikes.
No, they'll do tariffs. This is how 'the West' will decline into irrelevance.
don't listen to our chancellor. he isn't fit for leading a country anyway. he should go lick some eggs.
Give them a millimetre, they take a kilometre.
Can we somehow switch the amount of power Germany and Spain hold in EU?
Germany is truly the husk of its old self now.
Germany always sucked. Before fighting electric cars they were pushing EU to get addicted to Russian gas and shutting down nuclear power plants. Before that they were split in two countries and one wasn't that great. And before that...
Well the east had great public transport, cheap rents and free healthcare.
Uhm… not sure if you’re serious. You know that didn’t work, right?
I’m all for all of those things and more of them, but that particular example isn’t much of a paragon.
MERZ
LECK
EIER
Vehicles powered exclusively by e-fuels should be ‘immediately’ classified as zero-emission vehicles
Vehicles powered exclusively by carbon fuels should be ‘immediately’ classified as zero-emission vehicles
FTFY
We're governed by completely clueless, unimaginative and corrupt imbeciles. It's so clear to see, it really hurts. They do nothing that actually benefits the country. All that counts is power, and lining the pockets of their friends and themselves (golden parachutes after their time in government).
With these kind of politicians Germany is done for. And half the country is OK with it, or thinks literally Nazis are the solution.
Completely detached from the climate (and economic) reality we find ourselves in.
The absolute embarrassment these fuck knuckles are for us, unbelieveable.
And how do they plan to pay for the climate-change damage that causes? For the property damage, emergency services and insurance costs caused by additional flash floods, wildfires, heat domes, and droughts?
For a bunch of conservatives, this is fiscally irresponsible.
(Let's start using their language against them.)
Dammit! I just bought a new air pistol! /s
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