Piedmont: block the Euro 5 diesel? A stupid rule on the well-being of citizens would win
Piedmont must … stop the blockade of euro 5 cars, which should have taken effect from 15 September. The non-application of the postponement, even if limited to two years, would be the victory of a stupid European legislation that does not take into account the well-being of citizens in their pockets, and which would objectively be a real tax on the poorest…
According to this regulation, to be definitively disarmed, until April 15th, from September 15th, to the structural limitations which already provide for the blocking of traffic, every day 24 hours a day, for diesel and petrol up to Euro 2 and for LPG and natural gas up to Euro 1, further measures will be added: ban on the circulation from 8:00 to 19:00 on weekdays from Monday to Friday, of vehicles equipped with Euro 3, Euro 4 and, new this year , Euro 5 used for transporting people ì, and vehicles used for transporting goods in 76 municipalities in the region.
It is estimated that 140,000 Euro 5 vehicles will no longer be able to circulate in Piedmont . There is always the loophole of the Move-Up system, which allows for a limited number of kilometers if you register with a monitoring system, but still relatively recent cars, with a few years behind them, are outlawed.
Confirmation of Carlo Cipolla's theories
The law is stupid and it is the application of a European law created to confirm the thought of the economist Carlo Cipolla on the prevalence of idiots.
Let's take a few examples: if the goal is to limit CO2 emissions in general, we should NOT excessively encourage the purchase of new cars (the construction of which emits CO2) and, if anything, block those that emit more carbon dioxide.
Too bad that's not the case. Let's take an example:
- CO2 emissions of a 2005 diesel Fiat Punto multijet: 119 g per km
- CO2 emissions of a BMW X3 2.0 euro 6 165 g per km
The first car doesn't circulate, the second does. The owner of the Punto can sell it to buy the BMW whose emission generates CO2, which the Punto, if it had continued to circulate, would not have done…
We could continue with dozens of examples, some striking, such as that of non-plug-in hybrids whose load in any case depends on internal combustion engines which also have to drag batteries behind them, the production of which requires not only CO2, but also rare metals obtained with the exploitation. What's the point of all this? None, absolutely none, except to be a new tax charged to citizens aimed at punishing their mobility.
Nothing good can be done by remaining in this EU
Rules wanted by political lobbies financed by Nordic countries can only lead to repressive policies of the poor, who cannot afford to buy a Tesla or a Mercedes and who have to use the 1993 Panda 4×4 simply because they live in the countryside and cannot afford a suitable new car. The poor have to suffer, especially when policies are decided by European socialists and local governments do not shine with courage. If then this had had what Don Abbondio lacked there would have been the judicial arm to crush the local initiative. If then there was a national coverage standard, which would have been possible, we would have had some Court of Justice of the EU to disapply it.
This stupid little rule highlights what, little by little, everyone is realizing: there can be no social policy in the EU in the hands of anti-social ideologies. Because the Euro classification doesn't make sense as far as CO2 emissions are concerned, but it makes a lot of sense as forced taxation.
Among other things, the rule risks being counterproductive and causing commercial distortions: if I live in Alice Belcolle (AT) and have a 2005 Punto multiet in good condition I won't go shopping in Asti or Nizza Monferrato. I will go to Mombaruzzo, which is not one of the blocked municipalities. It is not impossible, indeed from 15 September it is likely to happen, that shopkeepers in smaller towns advertise the possibility of doing their shopping freely.
What is the fault of the owner of a shop in Nizza Monferrato? None, except to be in a slightly bigger city. Who will repay him from the losses? Brussels?
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