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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
Warning UK and France members ... you only have 23 years left to purchase a new car that runs on gas or diesel fuel. I suspect used automobiles will still be allowed to be sold.  |
Dont underestimate the furor of the fanatically selfrightous. In Germany, owners of Diesel cars affected by Dieselgate who do want to put pressur on the companies by refusing the - reaosonably uneffective - uograding of their engine software, which would free the company from the chance of chrages beign filed against them - now are blackmailed by the state to either allow the upgrade until September - or have the running permission for their cars canclled, at their own cost and full fincial loss. The state hre jumps to the rescue of the car makers to prevent them needing high comeonsations if charges by private car owners get filed by the car owner.
It s a game of buying time. The owner need the time to mount the pressure on the producers, and the state denies this to the owners to prptect the producers.
Of course the state does not call the thing by its real name.
One thing should be clear: Diesel is dead. The German gamble of the past 20 years, has failed. In the end, the German oattempt to make it successfull beyond Germany and France, and especially in America, never was successful.
Dieselgate has grown in scope over here, it is not about Diesel anymore, but cartel building. Talk is of the biggest cartel scandal in industrial history of the past 50 years. Consideirng the vitla importance of car making for the German economic "powerhouse", polics will talk plenty of hot rehtoric, but will try to defuse dangers to the car akers as much as possible. Also, car makers and politics are in bed together since long time.
Man kennt sich.
Recent strategies by the US and France aimed at damaging Germany's key industry branch, too weaken Germany and to push the diffefent strategies of their own car makers. I expect that lots of champagne got consumed in recent months in Paris and Washington. The Germans mistake has been to have relied on luxurious and fast heavy limousines for too long. These loose in demand on the german market, and internationally. many young people do not see owning a car as a status symbol anymore. And many people prfeer more practical, small, economic cars by now.Last but not least, many also cannot afford a car anymore. At least not by the German (cartel) prices. Monopoly and cartel-building is a risk in capitalism, but nevertheless it is the antagonist of free market and capitalism. It destroys capitalism and free market. It must be persecuted and wiped out whereever it is being tried. Much of the criticsm the left fires against capitalism, indeed would be justified, if only they would aim it at the correctly identified target: monopolies and cartels , - not capitalism.