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Even beyond the refrain that has become commonplace here on climate change and measures to combat it, the issue of the energy security and independence of European states in itself justifies us trying to make better use of energy. The reason we will not vote against this report is that it is at European level that most standards are developed.
However, in this report, we fall back into the Malthusian and guilt-apportioning vision present in all Parliament’s reports on the subject: blind stigmatisation of motorists, bans on certain equipment, the desire to dictate individuals’ behaviour and to press-gang children from their earliest years, to meddle in planning and construction policy, to promote energy taxation and pricing schemes that in fact will harm only the most fragile sectors of the population.
Therefore – yes to minimum standards, yes to encouraging research, yes to objective information that allows enlightened choices, yes to the promotion of tax incentives. No to persecution and bludgeoning."@en1
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