• Saleh@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    Punitive fines means they can pay themselves out of abiding by the legal limit. This should not be acceptable. Shut down all the cars that are not within legal limits and have the car companies recompense the customers they already sold them to.

    The longer we keep these unreformable dinosaurs alive artificially, the more damage it will do to the european economy, environment and people, when they finally fall.

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    13 hours ago

    Uh, aren’t fines supposed to be punitive? If it’s not punitive it’s just a fee

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    13 hours ago

    Germany was all about ‘punitive’ measures following the financial crisis—when it was someone else’s economy in trouble.

    Germany’s car manufacturers thought they could continue making efficiency gains with combustion engines until the EV fad was over and everyone retuned to ICE cars. Looks like they were wrong, and that’s no reason to sacrifice the environment further.

  • viking@infosec.pub
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    13 hours ago

    About time this fucking clown is removed from all political positions. He’s been spewing shit from day one.