MrMakabar

So they want self driving cars, which do not brake for pedestrians and cyclists? Do I understand this correctly?

Most emissions are caused by rich people. Quite frankly as soon as you forget about the car, the rest is rather cheap. Solar panels powering a home are not crazily expensive and organic food staples are also not that much more expensive then the conventional competition. Electric cars are expensive, but the proper choice is to try to live car free anyway. A bicycle is cheap after all.

Anybody who actually is emitting more then the global average can live in a way that massivly reduces their emissions and afford to do it. Not to zero, but to a point, where it is absolutly reasitic to demand companies and governments to push for the rest.

China emits nearly twice as much as the US these days. At this rate China is overtaking the US in 25 years or so. Probably sooner as US emissions are dropping, whereas Chinas emissions are increasing.

Obviously Chinas per capita emissions are below the US, but they are still nearly twice the global ones and above those of the EU or UK for example. When you look at cumulative per capita emissions China is about averge. However that includes a lot of emissions from dead people and for China those are nearly zero. If you only look at cumulative emissions since 1990 China is about as bad as the EU on a per capita bases. However with 30% of annual emissions.

So please do not pretend that China is not responsible for climate change. They absolutly are.

Chinas economy has problems, the population is falling and they do have a massive built up of green technologies. That are important factors for a fast change in emissions. Given that China is producing about 30% of global emissions, this is really great news. Lets hope countries like India do not make up for the drop.

We can verify a lot of that. There are satellites in space measuring emissions and they are good enough to get data for individual power plants.

It is not too much of a good thing. Most emissions do not come from the electricity sector, but a lot of processes can be done with electricity instead of fossil fuels. Obviously plenty cheap electricity makes that more attractive. So we are going to see more EVs, electric heating for both buildings, but also in industrial processes, green steel production and so forth. As long as Spain still has those options, it is not too much electricity.

Awhile or three weeks as Macron defines it. Well it is two now. I hope that liberal knows what he is doing.

We see that in France right now. The Greens who in France tend to be fundamentalist have formed an alliance with nearly all other left leaning parties to prevent the right from taking over in the snap election Macron has called. Macron is badly hurt, due to awful internal policies, so they are very very unlikely to win the elections. Also voter turnout was only 51%, so there is a decent chance, the French parliament actually fights back rather heavily. In France the Greens lost 5 out of their 10 seats, so if this works this would be good news.

The biggest looser were the German Greens. However elections are supposed to be in a year. The German economy does badly and the Greens pushed through some unpopular reforms, which were badly needed. However federal elections are in autumn next year. So they have some time to come up with a plan. Good news is that the unpopular laws they wanted to pass, have been passed, the German economy does rather badly and that might change, the EM probably improves the general mood a bit and they still have some pre election gifts lined up. As for the next elections as long as the center right party remains unwilling to work together with the far right party, they have to form a coalition with either the social democrats or the Greens. So most the next government might do pretty much nothing at all or do a bit of good work.

However the simple truth is that the current governing coalition in the EU Parliament still would have a majority. The Greens are part of it and plenty of other parties in the EU are aware and acting on climate change. Also a lot of good laws have been passed. So just keeping them in place will do a lot of good.

Exactly the two American car manufacturers are able to survive rather well so far with pretty much no sales abroad. They are still some of the largest in the world. That is besides the US being a large enough market for companies to seriously consider keeping their combustion engine technology around, if they believe it will sell. This obviously means they might lobby their home markets to keep them around as well. Stellantis is the most obvious company to maybe do that.

Bidens action turns 10% of global car sales electric(not counting other countries actions here) and forces GM and Ford to go electric.

It does matter. Last year 15.5million new cars were sold in the US. Besides the US being a rich country, it has a below average share of EVs in sales. So Biden pushing this will make the transition faster, as companies set up new production.

It also matters for another reason. US oil production is likely to decline in the coming years. Currently the US is an oil exporter, but this is going to change unless the US lowers consumption. EVs are a key part of doing that. If done successfully, that means the US has less interest in protection global oil production and flows to keep prices low. So less US interventions and higher oil prices.

Intressting that no German banks are involved in this deal.

Also the gas is not needed. Europe is doing fine with the gas available and especially Germany should lower its consumption in the comin years, due to banning sales of new gas boilers in the coming years. With heating buildings making up half of Germanys gas consumption this is a big change

Meanwhile Italy's population is declining. I guess that raises food consumption nowadays.