Posted on 02/25/2023 7:26:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ROME, Feb 25 - Italy wants to team up with France and Germany to "influence" and slow the pace of European Union laws on cutting car and truck emissions, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government has already come out strongly against the bloc's decision to outlaw the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, with one minister calling the forced switch to electric "suicide" and a "gift" to Chinese industry.
Speaking to the TGcom news channel, Urso called on the EU's executive arm, the European Commission, to take a "pragmatic, concrete, non-ideological" approach to climate change laws, and said he wanted to build "an alliance" with Paris and Berlin to soften their cost for industry and consumers.
Urso specifically mentioned two draft EU laws: the Euro 7 tougher emission rules for cars, vans, trucks and buses, and this month's proposal to further cut truck and bus emissions.
Echoing concerns expressed by Italian Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, Urso said the EU risked going from "energy subjection" to Russia for fossil fuel supplies to "an even more serious dependency" on China for green technologies and raw materials.
EU regulations on road sector emissions are part of a broader package of tougher policies against climate change, designed to deliver on the bloc's targets to slash greenhouse gas emissions this decade.
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Huh? Germany is pushing this lunacy.
Notice, “Meloni’s RIGHT WING.....” crap.
Ferrari just is not the same when its an electric vehicle.
bttt
Llolz… what is the geographic size of them together?
Sounds like a great taxation scheme. Every green deal is a money taker and the elites are still paying for carbon offsets while everyday working class folks suffer.
EV fires…. Who wants a ticking bomb in their garage? Probably the same one that want a ticking bomb in their arm.
Stellantis stock PE ratio and dividend yield suggests, uh, market inefficiency.
We are Italy, and less crazy than Germany!
Is not the Meloni government, like, a fire breathing extreme right-wing government? /s
They go right ahead with this climate change crap when they give absolutely no proof of the climate change they’re fighting , remember Obama said years ago the discussion was over and now they’ll destroy the west for nothing
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