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"Mr President, the energy sources that we use for mobility in Europe are going to change over the coming decades. However, achieving that objective is incompatible with penalising the use of petrol for automotive purposes. This was the point of my vote in the vote on the directive on the taxation of energy products and electricity. Thanks to European investment in research and development, diesel engines today consume 30% less and cause between 20 and 25% less pollution than their petrol counterparts. Europe is a world leader in diesel technology. Penalising diesel is, therefore, a contradiction of 2020 strategy. It would aggravate the crisis, impact negatively on employment in European industry and take away resources for the research, development and innovation that electric mobility needs. In short, damage that we have avoided with today’s vote. I also supported subsidies for professional use of diesel, both for transport and in the primary sector, in order to preserve employment in these sectors and avoid inflation."@en1
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