TRAVELING BY CAR VOL15The future of the automobile is looking increasingly uncertain. No one really knows how much time combustion-engine vehicles have left, although it seems obvious that their fate will be decided less by consumers than by political decisions, regulations, and the enormous economic interests driving one of the biggest industrial transformations in modern history.
It's understandable that Europe wants to reduce its dependence on oil.
For decades, it has relied on importing a large share of the energy it consumes, leaving itself exposed to geopolitical conflicts, supply crises, and the interests of the world's largest oil producers. From that perspective, electrifying transport makes perfect sense: generate more energy within Europe, reduce dependence on foreign suppliers, and strengthen its own energy industry.
What many of us question isn't that.
We're not saying the climate isn't changing. That would be absurd. The Earth's climate has been changing ever since the planet existed. We've experienced ice ages, periods far warmer than today's, continents arranged in completely different positions, and eras when volcanic activity released amounts of gas into the atmosphere that dwarf anything produced today. The planet has always changed, and it will continue to change with or without us. The real discussion is how much influence humans actually have and which measures genuinely make sense.
What many of us struggle to believe is the political narrative surrounding all of this.
If Europe had simply said from the beginning, "Ladies and gentlemen, we're tired of depending on oil from the Middle East, Russia, or the United States. We want to produce our own energy, build a European energy industry, and achieve strategic independence—even if that means covering the continent with wind farms, solar panels, and new infrastructure," there would probably have been debate, but at least the message would have been straightforward.
Instead, everything is presented as though it's solely about saving the planet, even though this transition also involves hundreds of billions of euros.
New taxes, new regulations, new markets, public subsidies, energy giants expanding, manufacturers reinventing themselves... and, as so often happens, the revolving door that many suspect will keep spinning once certain politicians leave office.
And whenever someone questions that model, the label appears almost instantly: climate denier.
As if criticizing specific policies were the same thing as denying that the climate changes. Those are two completely different debates. You can accept that the climate evolves, care about the environment, and at the same time distrust the way that argument is being used to justify certain economic, fiscal, or regulatory decisions.
Meanwhile, the people expected to adapt to every new change are ordinary citizens.
Replacing perfectly functional cars ahead of time, paying ever-higher prices, facing new taxes, dealing with restrictions, and becoming increasingly dependent on heavily regulated technologies all come at a cost—and it's the public that ultimately pays it. History shows that power rarely gives up the opportunity to accumulate more influence, more regulation, and more resources. That's why many people view this transition with skepticism: not because they believe the planet isn't changing, but because they find it difficult to believe that politics has suddenly stopped being politics and become nothing more than an act of environmental altruism.
And after sharing this opinion—which is, after all, just an opinion—here are a few videos.
Update (Putting Some Numbers on the Table)
- Humans are responsible for roughly 5% of the CO₂ entering the atmosphere each year within the Earth's overall carbon cycle. The remaining 95% comes from natural processes such as the oceans, soils, vegetation, and the respiration of living organisms.
- Of that 5% generated by human activity, Europe accounts for approximately 6%.
- Put into global terms, Europe contributes about 0.3% of the CO₂ entering the atmosphere each year within the overall carbon cycle.
- In addition, roughly half of human-generated emissions are absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems, meaning the net contribution attributable to Europe would be even smaller—around 0.15%.
Now here's the question.
Does the direct effect of reducing such a small fraction of global emissions justify the climate emergency narrative, the political urgency, the bans, the taxes, the subsidies, the transformation of Europe's energy model and vehicle fleet, and all the economic sacrifices being asked of ordinary citizens?
What cannot be denied is that, while those sacrifices are being demanded from the public, enormous economic, industrial, strategic, and geopolitical interests surround the energy transition. Major power companies, manufacturers, investment funds, and countless industries connected to this transformation stand to move hundreds of billions of euros—ultimately paid by taxpayers. And, of course, there are the well-known revolving doors between politics and major energy corporations.
Is it possible that the only motivation is saving the planet, and that everything else is merely secondary and incidental? Well... it's possible.
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