The head of the LR list in the European elections reiterates its opposition to the ban on the sale of new thermal cars on the European market.
Questioned on BFMTV/RMC, Les Républicains (LR) candidate François-Xavier Bellamy is against the ban on the sale of thermal cars in 2035 on the European market. “We voted against this decision, we must reconsider this absurd choice”, defends the candidate?
The head of the LR list recalls that this ban will have economic consequences due to the volume of employment represented by the automobile industry, but also social consequences, the purchase price of an electric car being much higher. “The French will keep their used car indefinitely, because they cannot buy a new car which will be forbidden to them,” notes François-Xavier Bellamy. From an ecological point of view, the use of electric cars would above all be a “huge gift to Xi Jiping’s China which is ten years ahead” in this segment, at the cost of “unbridled mining”. It is the very principle of all-electric which is criticized by the candidate.
We must decarbonize transport but let industry find the means,” says the candidate who gives the example of decarbonization of other engines, or buses running on biomethane.
Returning to the downgrading of France’s rating by the Standard & Poor’s rating agency, François-Xavier Bellamy compares the average debt of the euro zone (four debt points less) to that of the country, which records sixteen points of debt in addition: “we cannot forever lie to the French about the reality of this trajectory which stuns the whole of Europe”.
