Re:Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
by mschuster91 on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:54PM
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> Electric cars and heat pumps.
And guess what the fossil fuel lobby is pumping millions upon millions of dollars in propaganda against.
It's been utterly nuts to watch in Germany - our local tabloid rags and their relentless campaign against heat pumps (as well as a botched communication regarding an energy-efficiency law from the government) actually worked good enough to put local manufacturers into a serious crisis [1]. Electric cars are in a similar bind - barely any government subsidies combined with falling gas prices, a lackluster / too expensive offering by everyone but Tesla and Tesla focusing more on the Cybertruck (that can't ever be certified to European standards) than on boosting Model 3 quality combined means that the % of electric cars on new registrations went downhill from 16% to 12% [2].
On top of the fossil fuel lobby spending comes heavy smear campaigning from Russia and its 5th column (aka, parts of the far left, as well as the most popular far-right party), who have identified anything "green" as a fracture point of society.
And guess what the fossil fuel lobby is pumping millions upon millions of dollars in propaganda against.
It's been utterly nuts to watch in Germany - our local tabloid rags and their relentless campaign against heat pumps (as well as a botched communication regarding an energy-efficiency law from the government) actually worked good enough to put local manufacturers into a serious crisis [1]. Electric cars are in a similar bind - barely any government subsidies combined with falling gas prices, a lackluster / too expensive offering by everyone but Tesla and Tesla focusing more on the Cybertruck (that can't ever be certified to European standards) than on boosting Model 3 quality combined means that the % of electric cars on new registrations went downhill from 16% to 12% [2].
On top of the fossil fuel lobby spending comes heavy smear campaigning from Russia and its 5th column (aka, parts of the far left, as well as the most popular far-right party), who have identified anything "green" as a fracture point of society.
[1] https://www.mopo.de/im-norden/niedersachsen/auftragsflaute-w...
[2] https://www.adac.de/news/neuzulassungen-kba/