Go Porsche!
Apropos the global-warming debate:
To the U.S. political Left (and the EU political mainstream), one of the most attractive aspects of the humans-cause-warming hypothesis is that it serves as wonderful justification for a huge new revenue stream in the form of "carbon taxes." A carbon tax is a political diamond: You can claim the moral high ground, collect huge new revenues, and many of the booboisie will feel so morally righteous in paying it that they won't question where it's going. For spenders of public money it doesn't get any better than that.
But even in Europe not everyone is going along. Wendelin Wiedeking, CEO of Porsche AG, has joined several others in the German auto industry in questioning the politics of carbon taxes, claiming the reason France and Italy are so much in favor of such taxes is because carbon taxes favor French and Italian car makers over those in Germany.
As a Porsche owner (968 6-speed coupe) this is yet one more reason to be proud of Porsche. And as an American, I can only hope the E.U. carbon taxes drive Porsche to start manufacturing cars in America. Mercedes and BMW already build cars in the US, why not Porsche as well?
To the U.S. political Left (and the EU political mainstream), one of the most attractive aspects of the humans-cause-warming hypothesis is that it serves as wonderful justification for a huge new revenue stream in the form of "carbon taxes." A carbon tax is a political diamond: You can claim the moral high ground, collect huge new revenues, and many of the booboisie will feel so morally righteous in paying it that they won't question where it's going. For spenders of public money it doesn't get any better than that.
But even in Europe not everyone is going along. Wendelin Wiedeking, CEO of Porsche AG, has joined several others in the German auto industry in questioning the politics of carbon taxes, claiming the reason France and Italy are so much in favor of such taxes is because carbon taxes favor French and Italian car makers over those in Germany.
As a Porsche owner (968 6-speed coupe) this is yet one more reason to be proud of Porsche. And as an American, I can only hope the E.U. carbon taxes drive Porsche to start manufacturing cars in America. Mercedes and BMW already build cars in the US, why not Porsche as well?
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