2018: Diesel driving banGermany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.
Actively shaping the country. A methodology that I often write about the management of China. Understanding the government of China as the management of China Holding. There is the population, there are the owners of China, there is the management, which is responsible for the best possible results. This is also known as the people's dictatorship. Let's take a look at the achievements of the last 1/4 century and the thinking behind them.
The internal combustion engine creates a dependency on oil imports, the need to secure these oil imports militarily, a dividend servitude when the oil-exporting states systematically invest the profits in shares. But where do you start? Electric scooters make their first appearance in the 5-year plan of 1992. The pragmatic way of thinking: for 100 km of motorized mobility on two wheels, you either have to import 3 liters of crude oil or burn 1 kg of domestic coal. Because such an electric vehicle can run on any type of electricity, whether coal-fired, nuclear, solar or wind power, the electric scooter can run on more and more clean electricity over time. When I wrote about the 2-phase conversion in my first book at the same time, I had no idea that the first decision had just been made in China. Phase 1: convert everything to electricity, phase 2: make electricity cleaner and cleaner. Why start with the electric scooter? Because there is a logic of size in combustion engines. The best efficiency is achieved by marine diesel engines, the worst efficiency by tiny combustion engines in mopeds. Even the lead-acid battery is sufficient, as 1 liter of gasoline can be directly replaced by 1 kWh of electricity. The next step will be to replace larger vehicles with electric vehicles. But which ones first? Again, the logic here is: where can oil be replaced with the least effort? Cabs and buses. They typically drive 60,000 km per year in urban areas. The typical car driver, on the other hand, drives 6000 km in urban areas and 6000 km out of town. Some major Chinese cities have already made the switch or are very far advanced. Aircraft typically need 5 liters per passenger and 100 km on short-haul routes, 4 liters on medium-haul routes and 3 liters on long-haul routes, because the take-off and the effort required to reach cruising altitude are spread over different distances. This is why short-haul flights have been replaced by high-speed rail in China. Today, China has more high-speed rail than the rest of the world put together. The normal cars are the last to be converted. Planning security and a consistent approach.
The stories about the Schildbürger. The shield citizens want to build a new train station in Stuttgart. The shield citizens want to build a new airport in Berlin. The shield citizens want an energy turnaround and are destroying the photovoltaic industry that has just been painstakingly built up. The shield citizens forget about storage technology so that solar power can also be used at night, instead they carry light into the town hall in sacks. The shield citizens are closing nuclear power plants hundreds of kilometers from the sea because a nuclear power plant right by the sea in Japan was destroyed by a high tsunami wave, which can only occur in extreme earthquake regions. Climate protection with lignite-fired power plants is very much IN with the shield citizens at the moment. The Schildbürger claim to have only discovered in 2015 that diesel engine emissions are being manipulated. The Schildbürger are very proud of their car industry and the fantastic diesel engines, but at the same time they pass laws on air pollution control that cannot be complied with using these diesel engines. The shield citizens issue environmental zones in which a 5-year-old diesel is not allowed to drive, but the 2-stroke Knatter Stink Moped is allowed. Diesel driving bans? Cabs and buses must of course be exempt. Exactly the opposite of China, where they are the first to convert to electric cabs and electric buses. Electric cabs in Germany? In its years-long defensive battle against progress, Germany was able to prevent this almost completely with a lot of regulations. Every legend has its historical core. We can experience the historical core of the Schildbürgersage live. |
