Huh. You mean that the Paris Accord would have imposed massive extra costs on U.S. auto makers, thus making them less competitive?
Germany’s powerful car industry said Europe would need to reassess its environmental standards to remain competitive after the United States said it would withdraw from the Paris climate pact.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, drawing anger and condemnation from world leaders and heads of industry.
“The regrettable announcement by the USA makes it inevitable that Europe must facilitate a cost efficient and economically feasible climate policy to remain internationally competitive,” Matthias Wissmann, president of the German auto industry lobby group VDA, said in a statement on Friday.
“The preservation of our competitive position is the precondition for successful climate protection. This correlation is often underestimated,” Wissmann said, adding that the decision by the Unites States was disappointing.
The VDA said electricity and energy prices are already higher in Germany than in the United States, putting Germany at a disadvantage.
“The VDA said electricity and energy prices are already higher in Germany than in the United States, putting Germany at a disadvantage.” so who’s problem is that?
“The VDA said electricity and energy prices are already higher in Germany than in the United States, putting Germany at a disadvantage.” so who’s problem is that?
It’s “almost” as if the Rest of the World’s main goal vis-a-vis Gorebull Warmering is not to actually stop it, but to use it as a bludgeon to destroy America’s economy…just as it’s “almost” as if Trump’s goal vis-a-vis Gorebull Warmering is to use it as a bludgeon to destroy the Rest of the World’s economy.
Feel free to remove the “almost”‘s above.
It is in no one’s best interest to destroy anyone’s economy. We trade, back and forth, with the global economy. If we destroy the economy in China, where would Walmart get all the cheap goods to sell us? And there would be no one to buy the popular Buicks that are in favor in China.
Who said anything about “best interest”? Both the Left and the Alt-Left (I’ll let you wonder which the Trumpists are – they are one or the other) are all about “own interests with extreme prejudice against ‘them'”.
It’s amusing watching the white nationalist troll La Reine du Bore get owned repeatedly today, by multiple posters.
Umnnnhhhh…..the people who voted against The Establishment were (and are) tired of Leveling the Playing Field by flattening the US.
IIRC, Abe Lincoln had something to say about that.