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Greenpeace is carrying water for the French and Italians by attacking VW for it's purported opposition to reducing "greenhouse gas" CO2. Yet again, international economic warfare is being conducted under the guise of "green". Here's some background information:
What this is really about is the non-competitiveness of the French and Italian car industries as contrasted with the German car industry. With the tiny market exceptions of European and N. American multi-millionaires who buy Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis, etc., NOBODY in the mainstream market wants to buy French or Italian cars. Their export market is pathetic.
Let's look back a decade or three at the N. American market. Renault, Peugeot, Fiat all tried and ultimately failed to penetrate the N. American market. Generally speaking, their cars were poorly designed and their quality control and reliability was terrible. The N. American car market gave them an F, they flunked out. In N. America, they're history.
Whereas by contrast, the Germans have succeeded enormously here. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW and Audi have all succeeded tremendously in N. America. In contrast to the French and Italian cars, the German cars have been very well designed and have rightly created a reputation for excellent quality control and reliability.
This experience has been mirrored in Europe. Outside of France and Italy, the French and Italians can't give their cars away. Meanwhile, as much as the German companies can overcome French and Italian deck-stacking, the Germans are the powerhouse car makers in Europe and are gobbling market share even in France and Italy.
Sacre bleu! What to do to counter-attack les Boches? By Fair Means or Foul? By Fair Means-attempting to build much better cars that are much more competitive-hasn't worked. So, the French have changed strategy to Foul.
Here's the Foul means: The French and Italian automakers' cars mostly have models with 2 to 3 liter 4 cylinder motors, a few 6 cylinder models. The German automakers' cars generally have 3 to 4 or 5 liter 6 cylinders, some V-8s.
So, in steps the EU "government", at the behest of the French govt, with the Italians gladly going along. They pushed through a law in the farcical rubberstamp EU "Parliament" to "reduce greenhouse gas" CO2 by penalizing automakers whose models put out more evil "greenhouse gas" CO2. This means implementing a huge exponentially increasing sliding fee per model sold, based on engine displacement and CO2 output.
To make it look good, to give some plausible deniability before the eco-brainwashed gullible European public, there is a modest "fee" of around a hundred Euros for 2-3 liter 4 cylinder models. HOWEVER, for 3 to 4 liter 6 cylinders, the fee can slide up to a couple thousand Euros per car. For 4+ liter 6 cylinders and V-8s, the fee can be 2-3 thousand Euros. These fees, like all taxes, are of course PAID BY THE RETAIL PURCHASERS.
So, the bottom line. What this does is to make the previously extremely competitive prices of German cars vis a vis French and Italian cars now very significantly higher for the German cars. This is underhanded international economic "green" warfare. Now, those evil CO2-belching German carmakers are starting to fight back, led by middle class car giant VW.
The French and Italian govts and car makers are getting the Useful Idiots at Greenpeace to help out in this economic warfare.
(Somebody ought to write a well-written, well-researched book "International Economic Crime Done Under the Ruse of 'Green'". There's far more of it than just petroleum-related skullduggery. This story would rate a chapter. Fair Means or Foul - our "friends" the French are being slimy b*st*rds with their "friends" and "allies" yet again. "Le Business Comme d'Habitude". The next time the French and Germans go for each others' throats, I'm going to root for the Germans.)
Follow-up observation. I see the VW ad is still available, while the Greenpeace ad is not, due to a copyright infringement claim. It seems a reasonable conclusion that evil capitalist corporation Volkswagen PAID the owner, Lucasfilm, for the rights to use the Star Wars theme in their commercial, whereas "progressive" Greenpeace, with it's typical leftist "entitled to their entitlements" attitude and the left's also-typical lack of respect for private property and property rights did not.
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Greenpeace is carrying water for the French and Italians by attacking VW for it's purported opposition to reducing "greenhouse gas" CO2. Yet again, international economic warfare is being conducted under the guise of "green". Here's some background information:
What this is really about is the non-competitiveness of the French and Italian car industries as contrasted with the German car industry. With the tiny market exceptions of European and N. American multi-millionaires who buy Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis, etc., NOBODY in the mainstream market wants to buy French or Italian cars. Their export market is pathetic.
Let's look back a decade or three at the N. American market. Renault, Peugeot, Fiat all tried and ultimately failed to penetrate the N. American market. Generally speaking, their cars were poorly designed and their quality control and reliability was terrible. The N. American car market gave them an F, they flunked out. In N. America, they're history.
Whereas by contrast, the Germans have succeeded enormously here. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW and Audi have all succeeded tremendously in N. America. In contrast to the French and Italian cars, the German cars have been very well designed and have rightly created a reputation for excellent quality control and reliability.
This experience has been mirrored in Europe. Outside of France and Italy, the French and Italians can't give their cars away. Meanwhile, as much as the German companies can overcome French and Italian deck-stacking, the Germans are the powerhouse car makers in Europe and are gobbling market share even in France and Italy.
Sacre bleu! What to do to counter-attack les Boches? By Fair Means or Foul? By Fair Means-attempting to build much better cars that are much more competitive-hasn't worked. So, the French have changed strategy to Foul.
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Here's the Foul means: The French and Italian automakers' cars mostly have models with 2 to 3 liter 4 cylinder motors, a few 6 cylinder models. The German automakers' cars generally have 3 to 4 or 5 liter 6 cylinders, some V-8s.
So, in steps the EU "government", at the behest of the French govt, with the Italians gladly going along. They pushed through a law in the farcical rubberstamp EU "Parliament" to "reduce greenhouse gas" CO2 by penalizing automakers whose models put out more evil "greenhouse gas" CO2. This means implementing a huge exponentially increasing sliding fee per model sold, based on engine displacement and CO2 output.
To make it look good, to give some plausible deniability before the eco-brainwashed gullible European public, there is a modest "fee" of around a hundred Euros for 2-3 liter 4 cylinder models. HOWEVER, for 3 to 4 liter 6 cylinders, the fee can slide up to a couple thousand Euros per car. For 4+ liter 6 cylinders and V-8s, the fee can be 2-3 thousand Euros. These fees, like all taxes, are of course PAID BY THE RETAIL PURCHASERS.
So, the bottom line. What this does is to make the previously extremely competitive prices of German cars vis a vis French and Italian cars now very significantly higher for the German cars. This is underhanded international economic "green" warfare. Now, those evil CO2-belching German carmakers are starting to fight back, led by middle class car giant VW.
The French and Italian govts and car makers are getting the Useful Idiots at Greenpeace to help out in this economic warfare.
(Somebody ought to write a well-written, well-researched book "International Economic Crime Done Under the Ruse of 'Green'". There's far more of it than just petroleum-related skullduggery. This story would rate a chapter. Fair Means or Foul - our "friends" the French are being slimy b*st*rds with their "friends" and "allies" yet again. "Le Business Comme d'Habitude". The next time the French and Germans go for each others' throats, I'm going to root for the Germans.)
No never.
Follow-up observation. I see the VW ad is still available, while the Greenpeace ad is not, due to a copyright infringement claim. It seems a reasonable conclusion that evil capitalist corporation Volkswagen PAID the owner, Lucasfilm, for the rights to use the Star Wars theme in their commercial, whereas "progressive" Greenpeace, with it's typical leftist "entitled to their entitlements" attitude and the left's also-typical lack of respect for private property and property rights did not.
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