Destruction of the auto industry: FDP politician accuses the government of disempowering Germany

The combustion engine no longer has a future in Germany.

Not everyone is in favor. The FDP state chairman even accuses the government of destroying the auto industry.

Stuttgart -

forcing the global

to rethink.

Many industries need to

reduce

emissions in order

to stop

.

The

is particularly hard hit

.

In the meantime,

such as Daimler AG * are therefore in the midst of

change towards

.

In the battle for the electric car, Daimler competitor Tesla last declared war (BW24 * reported).

The

from Stuttgart * wants to

promote

the development and manufacture of

more in the

future

.

However, the switch to

does not generate enthusiasm everywhere.

The EU is even planning to ban the Nitro - a nightmare for Daimler * Industry Intern is therefore the "end of.

in Germany" feared.

agrees with this assessment.

“The CDU-led 

destroying the German

.

The CDU-led

is taking part, ”said Michael Theurer, who is also the vice-head of the FDP parliamentary group, to the 

.

FDP state chief: Discrimination against combustion engines and one-sided fixation on electromobility

The Baden-Württemberg

particularly disturbed by the fixation on

.

“For fear of the Greens, one goes along the path of ideological fixation on

,” Michael Theurer told

.

In return, the

discriminated against - a type of drive that, from Michael Theurer's point of view, has given Germany its

.

At the beginning of July, for example, diesel driving bans were imposed in Stuttgart. *

+

FDP country chief Michael Theurer is bothered by the discrimination against the combustion engine.

He considers the fixation on e-cars to be dangerous because it means that Germany's economic power will be lost (symbol picture).

© Ina Fassbender

Instead of

forcing

to transform to

,

(FDP)

wants

politicians to have fair framework conditions.

The rest would be done by the car manufacturers themselves.

"They sell the cars that can be sold," said Michael Theurer to the

about the

.

“The

doesn't care where the CO2 comes from.

The climate does not care whether

less CO2 is emitted

with climate-neutral

in the

or in some other way. “But it does not matter for jobs and prosperity in Germany.

“That is why the discrimination against the combustion engine must finally stop”, says Michael Theurer.

FDP state chief sees the power of the Federal Republic endangered by discrimination against the combustion engine

The

sees

weaknesses in

primarily in the

and the current generation mix in the

.

Because an

does not only fill up with renewable energies, the CO2 footprint of a battery-operated electric car is no better than that of a natural gas car.

He also sees the unanswered question of how Germany will meet its electricity needs if 40 million

replaced by e-cars.

Michael Theurer therefore brings a fuel into play that Porsche AG * is also researching.

Porsche's drive system is not about hydrogen or an e-car *, but rather

.

"If you want rapid progress in climate protection, you have to scale climate-neutral synthetic fuels globally," says Michael Theuer about e-fuels.

From the point of view of the FDP state chairman, there is

much more

to the abolition of the

than the fight against

.

believes that the federal government's

endangering

its own

.

“We are not a military power.

And nobody outside of Germany is interested in whether we are morally the better climate protectors, ”Michael Theurer told the

.

“Our power is

.

We have to protect them if we want to be able to move anything in the world at all.

Otherwise we are powerless. "(* BW24

)

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