It's so frustrating to watch these stupid, divisive policies being employed around the world. The need isn't to seemingly punish those that love a thing, it is to offer an alternative that current methods cannot compete with. All this whole exercise has done is make enemies and caused pushback to the point that we have one step forward and two steps back.
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Tabula_stercore @lemmy.world - 18min
If companies do not get a hard deadline to change, they won't. In fact, the eu car lobby actively fights against this change that objectively would better lives by not huffing petrol fumes.
NightOwl in worldnews @lemmy.ml
EU to scrap planned ban on combustion engines, EPP's Weber says
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-commission-reverse-effective-2035-combustion-engine-ban-epps-weber-says-2025-12-12/It's so frustrating to watch these stupid, divisive policies being employed around the world. The need isn't to seemingly punish those that love a thing, it is to offer an alternative that current methods cannot compete with. All this whole exercise has done is make enemies and caused pushback to the point that we have one step forward and two steps back.
If companies do not get a hard deadline to change, they won't. In fact, the eu car lobby actively fights against this change that objectively would better lives by not huffing petrol fumes.