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Petition in Luxembourg“The combustion engine is not harmful to the climate”
LUXEMBOURG – The petition against the end of combustion engines in 2035 collected the necessary 4,500 signatures in just a few days.
The petition will be debated.
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More than 4,800 in the space of five days, and even 6,300 this Saturday evening: the petition against the end of combustion engines quickly mobilized a good number of people visibly hostile to the abandonment of the heat engine.
“I call on the Luxembourg government and parliament not to ratify the directive on the planned ban on combustion engines from 2035”, indicates the petitioner who even proposes to organize a referendum. He indicates “not to demonize electromobility” but criticizes “the forced way in which the European Commission wants to impose electric cars on the population of the EU”. He denounces in particular the lack of achievement of such cars and especially their price, “they are always much more expensive”.
Germany abstains
According to him, “the market should decide for itself which technology will prevail”. “Those who want to ban the heat engine are only afraid of innovation and competition” because “the combustion engine is not harmful to the climate in itself”, he continues. “It depends on how it is powered and with alternative fuels a combustion engine car can drive in a climate neutral way.” Changing the paradigm completely will not be without consequences in human terms: he thinks in particular of the fate of the thousands of employees of service stations and of those who work in the maintenance of cars in garages.
The vote of EU member states, scheduled for last week to ratify the ban on the sale of combustion engine cars in 2035, has been postponed indefinitely, the announced abstention of Germany preventing the necessary majority from being reached . Without Germany, the qualified majority of the Twenty-Seven which is required (favourable vote of at least 55% of the States representing at least 65% of the population of the EU) was no longer achieved.
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(mc/AFP)