Germany, like Vermont, has some problems. They are both scrambling to meet arbitrary and unnecessary emissions targets. Stop laughing; they think this is serious. And like Vermont, Germany has unworkable laws with rules to get there from here, because the world might end if they can’t agree on how to massage or cheat them.
The problem in Central Europe’s largest nation is that dueling sides are fighting over a thinning slice of what was once a proud and stable manufacturing economy. This planned ruin includes addressing what to do about vehicle emissions, but as deadlines loom without a compromise, Transport Minister Volker Wissing thought he’d try a different sort of motivation.
In a push to get his coalition partners to quickly approve the changes, Wissing said the [Transportation] ministry would have to enforce a ban on driving to meet the current law requirements if the amendments do not come into force before mid-July.“A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible through restrictive measures that are difficult to communicate to the population, such as nationwide and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing wrote in a letter dated Thursday to coalition parliamentary group leaders.
Strange meets insane. Germany is known for making decent automobiles, which is harder to do given the constraints on energy produced by unreliable intermittent fancy. Not to mention that it’s impossible to make steel in the new green world, so missing the emissions targets is less of a threat to Germans than the government that sets them and insists on meeting them.
Whether Wissing is making fun of his coalition partners or not is unclear to me, but it feels like he’s making a point they’ve all missed, which brings us to the dumber thing alluded to in the headline.
“It is not responsible for a minister to stir up unfounded fears,” Green Party parliamentary group leader Katharina Droege said on Friday, calling on the minister to make sensible suggestions for more climate protection in the sector.
Amusing, yes? The entire emissions scheme stands on unfounded fears, without which you’d not be arguing about how to meet meaningless targets whose only effect is to shackle your economy and bankrupt your people.
Failed Policy, Failed State
“Social Democrats (SPD) deputy parliamentary group leader Detlef Mueller” was also put out by the scaremongering, and he was not referring to the climate scam. He meant the bit about a driving ban, which is disingenuous coming from a Social Democrat. Driving can’t be anything but verboten to reach the movement’s actual goals. And that is not an unfounded fear; it is a logistical fact. Environmental policy is about control, especially movement. The 21st-century equivalent of a Berlin Wall. Not a physical structure but a technological one. Social credit, digital currency, transportation tyranny, cultural reprimand. All for what?
As with all forms of Marxism, once they’ve convinced you to give up your freedom, it must descend into the same sort of dirty economy China has now. Government power cannot stand on green lies. To keep it, they will make excuses for well-meaning environmental policy (not what we thought) to justify whatever energy use keeps the gears of despotism oild, turning, and oppressing.
The goal is economic control, not climate control. In the end, governments will still be scrambling to meet emissions targets, but under absolute state rule, there’ll be more emissions to keep the home fires burning.
Germans need to understand that this is a different face, but the same fascism, and the end of it isn’t all that different from that which they were liberated in the last century.
