2008: Merkel in the oil price crisis

The oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil prices

The oil price exceeds US$ 120 for the first time when I drive to the Geneva Motor Show in March 2008. Where is the solution? The Opel Flextreme was just a show vehicle, the Opel Ampera production vehicle was only presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 2009. Otherwise, at that time only a Toyota Prius converted to a plug-in hybrid by a battery manufacturer was known.

Finally, I find what I'm looking for: a plug-in hybrid. BYD - Build Your Dreams, from a Chinese manufacturer. Absolutely nothing electric at the neighboring stand. It's a disgrace! How can you only show oil-dependent vehicles in such an oil price crisis? This inspired me to take the following photo:

When the sun rises in the east, the stars dim
	Driving with fossile cars becomes more and more a burden. High oil prices and the environment conscience encumber much. But 'Built Your Dreams' from China shows a solution.

A few months later, I tried to remind Angela Merkel of the existence of plug-in hybrid cars:

Memory help for Angela Merkel
	You have long time forgotten this September 13th. 2007. Otherwise, it's not to explain, how You whimpered with the other leaders of the G8 for more oil production.

Political leadership vs whining

What would political leadership have looked like during the oil crisis?
This from the book Calculation ERROR page 192:

July 7-9, 2008, the 34th G8 summit in Töyako. It is less than a week after the oil price record of US$ 147.27. What would a normal thinking person expect when the leaders of the eight leading nations come together in such a situation?

A big announcement about an international organization for the oil phase-out, as I published at the end of June 2008? All the possibilities for politicians to control the oil price by reducing demand? A big speech by Angela Merkel like: "We are now announcing the end of the oil age. I sat in a plug-in hybrid car at the IAA 2007 in Frankfurt. In 10 years' time, we will require all new cars to be able to drive at least 50 km purely electrically. This is how we will control the demand for oil. That's how we'll get the price of oil down. As soon as the price drops, we will levy much more tax on oil and invest all this in phasing out oil."

Do you remember this historic speech by German Chancellor Angela Merkel? No, because it didn't happen. She didn't make a big speech. She just whined like a junkie with withdrawal symptoms who can't pay the dealer double the price for the drug.

Global economic crisis as an opportunity for tax reform

The high oil price ultimately led to a global economic crisis, with the oil price plummeting to US$ 32 at the end of November. How could the suddenly unexpectedly low oil price be used for an economic stimulus program?

Conjuncture program for Germany
Economy should grow, but in what direction? The consume should increase, but from what? Proposal from PEGE for a targeted conjuncture program for more living standard.

Aus diesem ersten Vorschlag zum Konjunkturprogramm wurde 2009 das 100 Milliarden Konjunkturprogramm für Deutschland und 2010 meine Keynote auf der WEIS - World Emerging Industries Summit - Wirtschaftskonferenz in China.

Politics - political targets of PEGE
	Nonpolitical, pragmatic, on the other side of ideologies counts in our politic only one target: A long time lasting civilization able to develop further on a stable base.

Philosophy
	Long-term planning and stability have to be the guiding rules of politics. A philosophy based on the mathematic branch of games theory.

Living standard
	What is living standard? How is living standard correctly measured? Is it possible, that our living standard declines drastic, while uncorrect numbers want to make us belive it's like paradise?

Taxes tax politics
	The consequences of the tax politic for humans and environment. The politicians claim to fight for humans and the environment, but the tax politics shows the exact opposit.

Energy politic
	Decades of wrong energy politic. Instead of more living standard with less energy usage, partial the contrary was reached. A result of the wrong tax politic.

1992: The Rügen Experiment
	From 1992 to 1996, research minister Heinz Riesenhuber and environment minister Angela Merkel demonstrated the unsuitability of electric cars on the island of Rügen.

2007: The Merkel failure begins
	The first appeal to Merkel to prevent the German car industry from resting on its laurels and falling behind was made on January 31, 2007.

2009: China announces drastic licensing regulations
	The Chinese counterpart to Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel: "Have you seen a single petrol scooter? They don't exist any more, they can no longer be registered, only electric scooters".

2010: Electric car with a range of 300 km
	The sensation at the Geneva Motor Show: the first family-friendly electric car with a range of 300 km. With the BYD e6, electromobility is breaking out of narrow niche markets.

2011: The fraud formula for plug-in hybrid consumption measurement
	Germany has been unable to reduce the EU's CO2 emission targets for the car industry. But the cheating formula for the whitewashing of plug-in hybrids is working.

2012: Electric Bus Conference Munich
	Grotesque differences in consumption between electric buses and hydrogen fuel cell buses. Nevertheless, a lot of research money continues to be sunk into hydrogen vehicles.

2013: Study on the market launch of electric cars
	The German car industry has even managed to corrupt the state-affiliated Fraunhofer research institute. An unscientific study on the market for electric cars shows this.

2014: Tesla announces 50 GWh battery factory
	The size of the planned factory shows the intention to sell not only in the luxury class. With the production capacity, a broad attack on the upper mid-range is possible.

2016: China shock 8% quota rule for electric cars
	Years of deep sleep in the German car industry, a few rolling declarations of abandonment to claim that they were building electric cars. But then the wake-up call from China.

2015: VW Dieselgate
	Large-scale fraud as industrial policy and the consequences if it is discovered. German politicians have systematically created an environment in which Volkswagen thought it could get away with it.

2017: Merkel sees black for the German car industry
	At a meeting with her colleagues from the EU according to information from SPIEGEL, the Chancellor touched on a sensitive topic: the foreseeable decline of a German flagship industry.

2017: EU wants fuel consumption measurement in cars from 2020
	For the insider, it is a defense against large-scale fraud; for the uninformed citizen, it is the total surveillance state. Background information on the planned consumption measurement.

2018: Diesel driving ban
	Germany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.