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PREVIEW: #NET-ZERO: From a conversation with Joseph Sternberg of WSJ re how the German public is balking and the German farmers are protesting as they learn about the costs of Net-Zero to be paid for by taxation -- and then there is the future mandate for

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: #NET-ZERO: From a conversation with Joseph Sternberg of WSJ re how the German public is balking and the German farmers are protesting as they learn about the costs of Net-Zero to be paid for by taxation -- and then there is the future mandate for EV vehicles in Europe and in the US, and the revelation of costs. More later.

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0:31.3

Conversation with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the

0:34.0

editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, he writes political economics.

0:37.8

He's based in London.

0:39.7

First observing the subsidies necessary to keep the German people happy for their green intentions

0:46.4

and then discovering the German people are balking when they learn that they're overwhelming

0:52.0

favor for the promises of net zero

0:56.0

mean that it's going to be paid for out of their taxes, out of their pockets,

1:01.0

and then the reluctance and the hesitation and the

1:04.1

pullback and the protest. This is true of farmers in Germany, farmers in Rome in

1:09.0

Italy, farmers in France, farmers in the Netherlands.

1:13.6

It's true across the board, but in this instance, Joe applies the same logic to electric

1:18.9

vehicles, electric vehicles in the United States.

1:22.4

In the future, will they be mandated and is the public

1:25.8

going to pay for it and what are the costs? Here's Joseph Sternberg speaking of the

1:29.8

EV in your future, perhaps? Mine too.

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