AfD Kompakt, February 11, 2022.
For years, the EU legislation leads us on with the
emissions-free automobiles of e-mobility. Yet this is an ideological conjurer’s
trick, since only one thing is different – the location of the CO2 emissions,
which besides will increase. For as a result of this politically forced
electrification of the passenger vehicle fleet, an increased coal-generated
electricity will need to come on line and thus the portion of so-called renewable
energies in the electricity mix will decline.
Classic automobiles with combustion engines, as well as all the
innovations thereto coupled like synthetic and alternative fuels, shall be buried
by this green-left Utopia and will be replaced by e-autos. Sand is thereby thrown
in the eyes of the citizens and competitiveness, prosperity and workplaces endangered.
Instead of this, we demand of the Commission – as is prescribed in the current
EU decree from the year 2019 – a comprehensive measurement of all automobile
emissions so as to establish the same conditions [Bedingungen] for all. Until then, penalty payments by auto
manufacturers should be set aside and innovations promoted. In that regard, an
examination of current goals is required, to the year 2028 at the latest, so as
to then take into account the expected innovations of the particular drive
technologies.
Only so can be prevented permanent damage to the core of
Germany’s industrial base. For if the proposals of the Commission were
followed, existing plants and workplaces cannot then be simply replaced. As
previously, the great problems of e-mobility in regards affordability, lack of
demand for reasons of quality, the faulty storage infrastructure, the insecure
energy supply and, from the ecological-ethical viewpoint, the questionable
mining of raw materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel, would thereby lead to
that in the end we would have fewer automobiles in the street. This would have
drastic consequences for our prosperity and our way of living.
[trans: tem]
