German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/131, p. 16445.
Frau President. Right honorable viewers and listeners. Right honorable colleagues.
As I read the motion, dear colleagues of the Union, I needed to look twice, whether it really came from you.
Klaus Wiener (CDU/CSU): It is printed on the upper left
This is at the least an open coalition offer to the Greens. Here you want to maintain or again introduce the subventions for electro-mobility.
Tilman Kuban (CDU/CSU, turned to
the Greens delegation): You could just vote in favor!
Now you certainly know – you have already written it in your motion – that these subventions so far have indeed not worked. How then do you actually want to introduce with a motion something which has not worked? You yourselves write in this motion that there is mis-use, that we have promoted vehicles which were sold off in foreign countries, which we here in this country do not have in our fleet of vehicles. You write this in your motion.
When we since 2016 so far promote electro-mobility with 10
billion euros
Stephan Brandner (AfD): Madness!
and have just 1.2 million vehicles in this country, then it needs for once be asked: What actually is awry here? And then you want to knock out by 2026 six billion euros for the charging infrastructure. I want to say to you here: It can be believed that climate change is hindered with German tax money; you do that. We do not believe that German tax money hinders, stops or in some way influences the climate change. Yet you believe it. Yet if it is believed, then one cannot nevertheless proceed and senselessly incinerate so much money. Electro-mobility’s CO2 avoidance costs per ton of CO2 – the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag says this – are from 800 to 1,000 euros per ton of CO2 – 800 to 1,000 euros! In European emissions trading we are at approximately 80, 90 euros per ton. That is to say: You buy the ton of CO2 avoidance at ten times the expense that it actually needs to be. For that, you can easily do away with the coal power plant CO2, and indeed ten times as much. There, we are at 65 euros per tons of CO2. You want the dumbest thing that can be done with German tax money: You want the promotion of electro-mobility.
The FDP besides ought to know better. They commissioned an estimation according to which it is even 2,300 euros per ton. That is to say: All of you here know: What you are doing here does not serve CO2 reduction, does not serve the climate change. What you are doing serves for the impoverishment of the German population.
The employment of your methods is absolutely unsuitable for reducing the CO2 emissions, and it is absolutely unsuitable for making the population accustomed to electro-mobility. Most, 70 percent of users of electric vehicles, use this vehicle as a second vehicle. What you are doing is socially unjust. You redistribute tax money so that people who gladly want to have an electric auto as a second or third auto will have it in the future.
That also applies to business. The well-to-do business can do it, and the poor, the not so well-to-do business cannot do it. All essentially use the electric vehicle not as a first vehicle but essentially as a second vehicle. Thus the method which you employ here is completely wrong.
Ladies and gentlemen, when one is headed in the wrong direction, then one does not go faster – which you here want – but turns around. Electro-mobility is a wrong way. We are of the opinion that here you should rationally use the tax money. Preferably exert yourselves to achieve the CO2 avoidance, when we at all do it in this country, with synthetic fuels, with openness to technology, which you besides are always preaching, dear colleagues. That should be our way. I can assure you of one thing: There will still be the combustion engine when your policy long since no more exists.
Many thanks.
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