Paris Car Fair Opens to Electro, Hybrid, Conventional Fuel Dispute

The largest car fair opening in Paris is in turn held once in Paris and once in Frankfurt. It highlights the newest developments in the car industry and usually is nothing but a view on total stagnation. The car industry has been unable to carve out a future for itself for almost 80 years and is unwilling to move into the future despite its dinosaur status.

In 1933, Peugeot was able to build a car that ran 100 km with only 3 litres of petrol. It is nothing but astonishing that the cement heads in the industry are still unable to replicate that design. Instead they produce utterly useless cars guzzling 25 l per 100 km and going to speeds way over any safety limit. All this is done in the name of a brainless minority of lardass ‘free’ spirits too lazy to walk from their living room to the kitchen.

This year’s fair highlights the differences in outlook in national terms rather starkly. The Japanese industry, ever specialised to please everybody, has heavily invested into the hybrid technology that might appeal to just about anybody with a claim to being the exception having been born without feet.

The German industry ignores any technology based on electricity on grounds that there is no market for it. The statistics they used are primarily based on the fact that German production sites are built to produce conventionally fuelled cars and will take decades still to be written off. And somebody wants to tell me that money fuels technical advance? Get real.

The French industry on the other hand has made a big leap into the electro market. Their statistics show a large market for this type of cars. The car industry in France is government controlled. France’s largest energy supplier Electricité de France (EDF) is completely state owned. EDF runs largely over-dimensioned nuclear power plants with unwanted energy production capacity. The French statistics are therefore as trustworthy as the German ones.

Is the dispute between the fuel guzzlers and the electro greens of any relevance at all? I would say it’s just a cover to hide the real problems of the industry. The issue should not be how the power is put into a needlessly over-used gadget, but how much energy is squandered on obese (or obese-to-be) people using it. Any energy comes at a cost to the environment, and green drivers are just fooling themselves but hopefully few others.

Minimizing the energy input into cars should be the real future for the industry. Anything else will just shift the problems from one area to another. But that is what politics is all about; politicians don’t want to find any solutions (or rather are mentally under-equipped to find them), they just want to line their own pockets. Accordingly, the French car industry’s direction to electricity guzzling cars is a logical move in the small nation with an even smaller presidentlet (pronounced like piglet, I assume).