The Czech presidency in the European Union has announced that a preliminary agreement has been reached by the European Parliament and the European Council, which predicts that in EU countries from 2035 it will be almost impossible to buy a new car with an internal combustion engine.
The European Union is not slowing down and wants to provide its subjects even more of what has led to the current energy crisis. It has just been confirmed that there is no turning back from climate policy. Frans Timmermans has set goals: from 2030, exhaust emissions from new cars will be 55%. lower than today and zero from 2035. In practice, this means that in 12 years it will not be possible to sell new cars with internal combustion engines. Another EU body is stroking the grave like dirt with a shovel. Now it’s up to the Council of the European Union.
All this happens at a time when the subjects of the Union are trembling that in winter they will freeze due to the lack of energy or its crazy prices. And even at a time when an electric car is a luxury and there is not a single electric truck in the world capable of carrying loads over long distances. The state of technology today is such that the battery of such a truck weighs roughly as much as the goods that can be loaded onto it. This, however, does not bother the rulers and owners of the Union. They already know what inventions and discoveries will be made in the future. They also know how much an electric car will cost in the future, because a house painter must be able to afford it, who loads stairs, brushes, paints, etc., and goes with a team to prepare someone’s apartment. Well, unless it turns out it’s all too heavy. So such a painter, or an electrician with cable coils, or a blacksmith with a forged gate, etc., will charge into an electric pekaes or into a train. Alternatively, they will sneak up on their diesel cough at night. However, after 2035, old diesel will be as fresh as coal now. We clean all scrap yards from Lisbon to Hanoi.
Of course, strong minds are guiding the Union towards a bright future, so just as it is now said that luxury cars for light countries like Ferrari, Lamborghini are out of the question, there will be exceptions for trucks or vans. I see this as a great opportunity for our economy, because Poles full of cunning and ingenuity will find a way to register their cars as trucks. Just like in the 1990s, when a grille was mounted under the rear window and the car miraculously turned into a van, on which the Balcerowicz tax was no longer imposed. Worse with such obedient Germans or lazy Frenchmen. And that’s good, because they will stay at home.
Traveling by car will become a luxury not available to most people. Even the heads of the big car companies – people who, unlike EU officials, have a certain ability to predict the future – have no doubts about it. Even in your industry. BMW president Oliver Zipse talked about it during his visit to the United States. There, on the occasion of the announcement of a new $ 1.7 billion investment, he warned Americans against the “harsh” introduction of the registration ban on combustion cars.
It’s a free nation, so we offer choice, not limitation
He told the Americans. In his opinion:
There is no indication that the internal combustion engine will become obsolete within 15 years
The CEO of Renault Luca de Meo of similar opinion, recalling at the Paris Motor Show that 8 years ago it was expected that within 5 years the production costs of the batteries would decrease significantly. Nothing like this has happened to date. Over the past six months, cobalt prices have risen by up to 100%. 80 percent of the battery price today is made up of raw material costs.
Carlos Tavares, president of a real colossus, the Stellanti are involved in producing brands such as Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Fiat, Chrysler, Opel, Peugeot.
If you deny the middle class access to freedom of movement, you will have serious social problems
he said to Paris.
It is difficult to disagree with this, but the rulers of the Union are deaf to the voices of reason. Maybe they want everyone to be home educated. Why should they wander the world and lug their carbon footprint around?
If the sketched visions seem funny, grotesque, absurd to someone, then for an intellectual experiment, I suggest to shift the mind to 2010 and imagine that in 2022 the dear and enlightened authorities will explain to the Germans or the Austrians how to survive the winter with candles. and coke ovens what to do in the event of a power failure for a few days. That the president of the Blessed Union herself would show her subjects how to wash their hands so that there was enough water. Fortunately, we’ve had 2029 wash patterns for ages. First in the bowl, the face, then the armpits, the rest, the body with the strategic parts, then the legs, and finally the floor. Or we don’t wash at all, something like the French.
But, but – when it comes to this 55% reduction in exhaust emissions. after 2030, however, high hopes can be placed in Germany. Perhaps they will fool humanity again and falsify their cars’ exhaust emissions results to meet stringent standards.
Today we can grin, but there are no jokes. It’s a laugh through tears. This policy is leading to an economic catastrophe and we are already suffering the dramatic consequences. One of these is, among others, the crazy oil prices. Little is said about it, but the frenetic climate policy of a decade has led to the abandonment of investments for oil exploration. This becomes a high-risk business. In a situation where the Western world does not want Russian oil, the remaining countries, mainly OPEC, are virtually unable to increase supply and replace Moscow with their own production. All due to too little investment in this sector. This is a similar situation to that in Poland, when the coal-fired power plant blocks will barely collapse, because they have not been run over precisely because they should have ceased to exist in the dreamed green world. In vain today, the administration of President Biden intercepts the Saudis and almost risks an economic war. These mines do not increase. They don’t want to, but they can’t either.
The second consequence, still little mentioned today, is another great dependence of the West on raw materials other than oil, gas or coal. These are cobalt, lithium, tungsten, metals necessary for the production of the batteries for these clean, ecological, electric charms. Contrary to what climate crazies have been saying for 30 years, the number of potential oil reserves is still growing. With current extraction and consumption, Saudi Arabia has its underground reserves for over 60 years, Iran for over 120 and Venezuela with its largest deposits in the world for over 300. Let the brilliant state of Brussels now try to explain to the Venezuelans, that even if, God forbid, democracy reigns in them, they will still be plunged into poverty, because something that could build them as abundance – as with the Arabs, will lie underground forever.
New oil fields are still being discovered, technology makes it possible to extract oil from previously inaccessible or unusable places (such as fracking) and much more effectively. The exact opposite is true today with lithium, cobalt and tungsten. So far, to pursue insane climatic visions, tens of thousands of children in the mines of the Congo, with their hands, for a few dollars a day, tear cobalt from the ground. They don’t care about Timmermans and the rulers of the Union. Let’s give the kids even bigger shovels, even bigger bags to carry more ore, because in 2035 we must have eco Europe. The bright and clean future of the West, which I don’t think will come true, is built on child labor in slavery and nobody in Brussels cares about it. They are used to the exploitation of slaves there, they are not impressed by it. Where are all these environmental organizations of human rights and the world of relief. Nobody sticks to the carts with the ore pushed on the banks by the children. The reserves of lithium cobalt and tungsten are not increasing. There are fewer and fewer of them. The West will become dependent on scarce resources even more than oil or gas, which abound in the world.
Today, the Europe of the EU is entering an economic recession. Since 2008, like a wall drunkard, it has rebounded from crisis to crisis. Nothing foreshadows changes in insane politics. Shy swallows appear, like the new Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who announced that his country would not meet the EU’s green targets for 2030 and abolished the climate ministry. It ceased to exist after 35 years. However, the EU Titanic does not change course and is speeding towards catastrophe. The only consolation may be that in the state it is in, on the path it is, it will not survive. Time to get the lifeboats ready.
