2008: Merkel in the oil price crisisThe oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil pricesThe 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:
A few months later, I tried to remind Angela Merkel of the existence of plug-in hybrid cars:
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.
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?
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. |