{"id":298287,"date":"2024-01-23T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298287"},"modified":"2024-01-23T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T19:37:51","slug":"what-a-backflip-the-biggest-political-party-in-the-eu-now-wants-to-drop-the-ban-on-petrol-and-diesel-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=298287","title":{"rendered":"What a backflip: The Biggest political party in the EU now wants to drop the ban on petrol and diesel cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The voter backlash begins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How much more would the car lovers and petrol-heads of Europe take? In draconian style, last February, the EU declared all petrol and diesel cars would be banned from 203<\/a>5. It was their star policy for the Net Zero push. Car makers would have to cut their emissions by a shocking 55% by 2030 and an unthinkable 100% by 2035. It was to be the end of an era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea was so big and embedded in the EU that only one month ago an insurance insider warned that his company was already devising elaborate plans for a world where everyone had an EV <\/a>and the insurance giants and the government got access to all your data. Police would be issuing your speeding tickets while-you-drove, and insurance companies would be granting drivers a discount if they allowed them to sell all their data to the highest bidder. Indeed, the word was that insurance companies wouldn\u2019t even insure petrol cars. Obviously only the rich were going to be able to afford a petrol car or an EV \u201cwith privacy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now, the largest party in the EU is drafting a policy to ditch the same ban they voted in a year ago. The European People\u2019s Party (EPP) is theoretically a \u201ccentre right\u201d party, despite acting like the radical left, but that means they stand to lose their voter-base in a blink as the reality of the bans sinks in, which it has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s conservative bloc calls for dropping ban on car engines<\/a>, tripling border guards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Vincur and Mari Eccles, Politico<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRUSSELS \u2014 Europe\u2019s biggest conservative force, the European People\u2019s Party, wants to massively bulk up the EU\u2019s external guard force and drop plans to phase out the combustion engine across the bloc by 2035, according to a draft of the party\u2019s manifesto obtained by POLITICO. With its heavy emphasis on migration control and call to \u201cpreserve our Christian values,\u201d the manifesto reflects the growing strength of right-wing parties across the bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In other news, the EPP wants to triple the number of border guards in the EU, and to relax some of the rules protecting nature. The European Commission president Mrs von der Leyen is as green as they come, but decided maybe wolves don\u2019t need so much protection after one of them killed Dolly, her beloved horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By sheer coincidence the next EU elections are in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mass farmers protests and electoral shocks in the Netherlands are making their marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNet Zero is now a toxic vote loser\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Schoellhammer wonders if the whole Net Zero plan will be next as right wing parties realize how much traction they can get by attacking climate policies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the EU dropping Net Zero?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The European Right has discovered anger against Net Zero policies as a powerful theme for mobilising disenchanted voters, as demonstrated by farmer protests in countries such as the Netherlands<\/a> and Germany<\/a>. A number of parties across the continent, from the Austrian FP\u00d6 to the German AfD<\/a> and the RN in France, have been quick to make this a main campaign issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was once an issue<\/a> for left-of-centre parties to win over voters has now become a toxic vote-loser. This shift shouldn\u2019t surprise us: Europeans support taking action on climate change \u2014 just so long as it doesn\u2019t affect<\/a> their lifestyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once it becomes clear that reducing emissions comes at a significant cost, support for corresponding policies falls dramatically. The German example of the last two years has shown that the green transition is not leading to more jobs and prosperity, but instead the opposite. Germany was the worst performing major economy<\/a> in 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU looks like it will have to remove the ban, but presumably they\u2019ll think up other painful, stupid ways to coerce us into EV\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian government, meanwhile, is just about to repeat all the EU mistakes but in the most sparsely populated, petrol loving, first world nation on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car crash photo by Marcel Langthim<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ursula von Der leyen Photo by Mueller<\/a> \/MSC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t To the NetZeroWatch newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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