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Apr
2023
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Dieselgate: suspected widespread use of defeat devices in cars to reduce effectiveness of pollution control systems (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in 2015 a "dieselgate" broke out, which involved many car manufacturers. They were accused of fraudulently reducing the polluting emissions of their thermal engines during approval tests. Of course, these lies to buyers and the European Union should never have existed. However, we must try to understand how these manufacturers got there. Brussels' increasingly unachievable environmental standards eventually pushed these manufacturers to the fault. The European Union has been waging a punitive environmental regulatory war against motorists for years. The preservation of the health of Europeans and the fight against pollution are laudable, but the means employed are always disconnected from reality, arbitrary and unfair. Yesterday, Europeans were encouraged to buy diesel cars. Today, they are forced to switch to electric power, by geographically shifting pollution generated by the extraction of rare earths, which are necessary for the manufacture of batteries. What will happen tomorrow? The maneuver undertaken with this debate is clear: to attack again the combustion engines, without thinking that, in the depths of our countryside and France overseas, many compatriots still work with generators. We are therefore looking forward to the debate on the pollution generated by the manufacture of electric batteries: pollution of rivers, air and soil, in addition to pollution that sometimes seriously affects other continents. But the European Union will turn a blind eye, probably believing that there is good pollution and bad pollution.