German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/89, pp,
10644-10645.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
For at least three decades now rages the obstinate – it might
be said, hate-filled – struggle of leftist ideologues against the automobile,
against one of the greatest achievements of the industrial age. The Euro-7 norm
is in that regard only a further piece in the puzzle, the additional chess move
in this perfidious game. If it continues to persist in its present form, it
means the ultimate end of the combustion engine in Germany and Europe. For the
German auto industry, that means the annihilation of from 300,000 to 400,000
workplaces.
Yet ultimately something quite else is hidden behind. It is
namely the attempt to force us into a new world order, in which the vehicle in
private possession shall no longer be at all in the least possible. “You will
own nothing and will be happy”. That is evidently the motto of a self-named,
arrogant and unashamed financial elite.
Markus Hümpfer (SPD): Such an imbecility!
According to the line: Scarcely affordable electro-SUVs for
us and for you, rabble, the freight bicycle.
It would have been long since time to solidly defend oneself
against this. If a sufficient number of EU countries had managed by today to
get underway a subsidiary reprimand, this would perhaps have been a beginning. The
immediate vote necessary for that, you, ladies and gentlemen, however once
again – it might almost be said, as expected – have gambled and snoozed away.
Thus all participating actors in this campaign of destruction attain step by
step their goal.
Dunja Kreiser (SPD): Alter Schwede!
This then functions for example in the following ways: The
World Health Organization (WHO), elected by no one, democratically legitimated
by nothing in the world, issues new recommendations for clean air on the basis
of indemonstrable hypotheses, naturally – who could be surprised? – with drastically
reduced limit values. Shortly thereafter – you can bet on it – the EU
Commission then as expected assumes these value limits and makes therefrom
obligatory guidelines.
The monitoring stations in our cities, which previously
measured and demonstrated an excellent air quality
Susanne Menge (Greens): That is not at all right!
then naturally present excesses of the permitted values.
Like a miracle, overnight is put forward a reason for banning even the cleanest
Euro-6 diesel from our cities – an additional, long wished for justification
for the already long before determined and aspired to auto-free city.
Exactly so will it be executed: Way above the heads of the
citizens, today likely branded by you as a conspiracy theory, tomorrow – this, I
guarantee you – the bitter reality in our cities. All of this will be justified
by the tales of a green climate sect, by theses which will no longer be
questioned by a portion of our population because the left-green media ever
again manages to simply exclude from the political discourse thousands of critical
voices.
Nyke Slawik (Greens): In what parallel world do you live?
Natural climate changes however will meanwhile continue, and
indeed with or without our assistance. Yet in that regard we are gambling away
our prosperity, our quality of life, and before all things, our freedom. Our
predecessors drove with the horse and carriage, we had the automobile, our
children and grandchildren will drive with the freight bicycle. Long live the
world of red-green progress!
Many thanks.
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