Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy

 

Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday as another massive protest over the government's 'green' plans to end tax breaks on diesel fuel and subsidies to farmers prevented from getting the best out of their land by loonytoons EU 'rewilding' policies.

(Liesa Johannssen/Reuters)

 Tractors and other farm vehicles started to arrive for the protest on Monday and by Tuesday 3000 were within Berlin city limits according to police, who said that another estimated 2,000 were on their way in the biggest display of disaffection with the government so far after a week of protests. Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik told municiplal leaders that a total of 1,300 officers were engaged in crowd control.

Major disruption to local bus and train services reported by Berlin's public transit agency, after around 10,000 people registered for demonstrations against the plan by Chancellor Olaf Scholz to cut subsidies.

As if trying to provoke escalation of the protsts to civil disobedience, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (Green Party) told crowds of farmers that the country has run out of money for further subsidies. The government announcement is part of a plan to try and fix a 17-billion-euro (US$18.6 billion) hole in Germany's 2024 budget, AP reported last week.

"I can’t promise you more state aid from the federal budget," he said, adding "But we can fight together for you to enjoy more freedom and respect for your work." It was not what the farmers wanted to hear.

The head of the farmers union, Joachim Rukwied, snatched the microphone from Lindner to ask the crowd to stop booing, telling them: "I have respect for every politician who is prepared to come to us ... The finance minister is here, it makes no sense to boo him."

Of course, the government also justified the cuts as 'required' after the country's highest court annulled an earlier decision to redirect nearly US$66 billion originally meant to mitigate fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic in order to combat climate change and modernize the country.

According to a press release from the office of Chancellor Scholz, "we took the farmers’ arguments to heart," adding that he thinks the government has arrived at "a good compromise."

Not according to the farmers they didn't.

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Yet, “The base car market segment will either vanish or will not be done by European manufacturers,” Zipse told FT.

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The west is committing suicide, led by leftist voters who vote with their emotions rather than engaging their brains, and are utterly incapable of using logic, reason, economics and (most importantly) physics.

This knowledge and the whole Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset plan has been known for at least ten years yet it is only now, as the reality that globalism will destroy them, that German manufacturers are finally waking up? The whole west is being de-industrialized as you must destroy it all to Build Back Better.  Remember the words of Bond villain lookalike klaus Schwab,"You will own nothing and be happy".

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Blog/WEF

But some people are wise to it:

“Make no mistake, it’s not about your convenience, and it’s not about saving the planet. It will be a complete impoverishment and enslavement of all the people,” German MEP Christine Anderson said regarding the push for 15-minute cities. She’s right. The 15-minute city is marketed as a futuristic town where everyone will live within 15 minutes of all the services they will ever need. The globalists are promoting such cities as affordable, convenient, and virtuous as they combat climate change. The truth of the matter is that these cities are reminiscent of the Jewish ghettos during World War II or the Japanese internment camps in the US. They are designed to contain and control the people and inhabitants or should I say 'inmates' who will need permission from a government official to leave their assigned zone, even for a short period.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) claims that Paris will soon become a 15-minute city, and Milan and Melbourne are also running pilots to test this design. Every street will have a bike lane as it will be easier to reduce our access to cars. Reducing our access to personal vehicles will reduce our ability to travel outside of our 15-minute enclosures. Everyone will work within a 15-minute radius, their children will go to school within this 15-minute radius, and there will be no “need” to leave. The problem here is that they have the power to prevent people from leaving.

As Anderson said, we have seen that governments can easily implement climate emergency lockdowns, coerce people into taking unsafe medications and destroy the lives and careers of those who do not comply.

  “The looming existential threat of climate change and worsening income inequality require us to urgently rethink our existing cities, and rapid urbanization makes it imperative that we create a new and better city-building template for cities to house future city dwellers,” the website for the enclosures states.

Since governments have made homeownership completely unaffordable to many, they are marketing “accessory dwelling units” (ADUs) under 1,000 sq ft as a viable alternative to housing. They claim this will solve homelessness as well since we will all be completely equal. YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY.

The government will choose where we live and how we live. The globalists want us to rely solely on government, a government that they hope will be a united one-world unit. The majority will be the “have-nots.” The few elites at the top will prosper on their puppets in their doll house towns who they can play with like Sim characters.

Reason suggestd that the globalists will fail because they omit to take into account human nature, but unless a lot more of us start to push back har and soon, stopping them will only be achieved with blood on the streets. 

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Picture: Fords of Winsford

Wednesday 29 March 2023

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Senior figures in the industry warned that British rules due to take effect in 2030 are untenable following the European climbdown, which will allow internal combustion engines as long as they burn carbon-neutral petrol alternatives.

The European Union will go ahead with its ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 but will now allow these so-called e-fuels, which have been reclassified as carbon neutral following a backroom compromise forced on it by the German negotiators on Tuesday night.

Sources in Brussels and London suggested the UK government was considering following the Commission’s lead by also allowing an e-fuel exemption. British carmakers Aston Martin and McLaren are already understood to be examining e-fuels as an option for powering future models.

Critics of the Government’s Net Zero plans claimed a victory for common sense on learning of the EU decision, with some going so far as to demand a total review of 'net zero' policy is needed. Ecoloons representing Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have said that it could slow down electric vehicle adoption although recent sales figures suggest take up of EVs is declining as owners become aware it is almost imposssible to offload an electric car in the second hand market.

The former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “The 2030 deadline for the elimination of petrol and diesel engine cars in the U.K. is simply not achievable. Unless we delay, we hand a massive boost to the Chinese car manufacturers. They are already dominant.”

Britain is to ban the sale of new cars that run on petrol and diesel only in seven years’ time under plans drawn up by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson but this policy now looks to be in jeopardy.

The EU’s e-fuel exemption will allow a synthetic alternative to petrol which is made by mixing carbon dioxide captured from the air with hydrogen obtained by splitting water molecules using renewable energy.

Currently this is expected to be more expensive than petrol, however, Benedetto Vigna, the boss of Ferrari, said this week that he expects the price to fall as the market grows and economies of scale become viable. Industry experts believe synthetic petrol and diesel could be the beginning of a return to sanity that would allow carmakers to focus on collaborating with chemical companiesproducing lower-cost e-fuels instead of expensive battery powered cars.

Andrew Graves, a car industry veteran and professor at the University of Bath, said: “I think it’s a very exciting technology that we’re looking at, so that we can not only use it for things like motorsport, but we can also more importantly use it for keeping existing vehicles on the road. I think there’s a lot of things that the Government needs to look at before it goes hell bent on just having a blanket ban on diesel or petrol.”

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Two of the European Union's most powerful member states have united to throw one of the Union's keynote green policies under a juggernaut. Germany and Italy joined forces to thwart a European Union ban on the manufacture and sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 and have demanded exemptions to protect their domestic car industries which earn €billions in export revenue and provide hundreds of thousands of jobs. A revolt by the two countries forced EU leaders to delay a key vote on new regulations which would outlaw the building of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) cars in twelve years time.

The draconian measures which amount to a prohibition of car ownership for people on low to median incomes were drafted last year and would prevent the sale of new cars unless they are "zero emissions". Electric cars, aside from all the attendant technical problems, are prohibitively expensive to buy new for most people and replacement batteries after five or so years use will cost almost as much as buying a new car.

Though the policy has not yet been ratified by member states, Germany and Italy, along with allies, is seeking an exemption for cars running on so-called e-fuels, such as kerosene made from waste, biodiesel and synthetic petrol, which are being developed by some manufacturers.

The action has forced EU officials to delay a vote that was sheduled for Tuesday (7 Marc 2023) because the laws cannot pass without Berlin's backing and have led to a split within Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government, with his FDP partners agitating for the EU's plans to be loosened while Germany's loonytoon Greens are demanding even more stringent anti - car measures.

FDP Bundestag member Volker Wissing, transport minister in the coalition Government, said: "It is contradictory when the EU Commission calls for stronger climate protection targets on the one hand, but on the other hand makes it more difficult to achieve these targets through overambitious regulation."

Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, is  expected to meet Chancellor Scholz over the weekend in a bid to to resolve the row as diplomats commute between countries hoping to avert a damaging split in EU unity over net zero lunacies that are putting fotunes in the already overstuffed pockets of financiers, corporate investors and peddlers of dodgy 'science.'

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, cheered the delay and added: “The voice of millions of Italians has been heard."

The last-minute hold-up is highly unusual, with the upcoming vote previously seen as a formality, but could be a harbinger of more serious trouble for the electric car industry because in the second half of 2022 sales plummeted as costs rose due to lifting of subsidies, soaring energy costs, lack of support infrastructure and shortages of components.

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