While surfing on the Usine Nouvelle website to support the above article, I came across this editorial about the famous directive of aid or penalty on vehicles.

Bonus-malus: When ecology rhymes with demagoguery

The substance of this editorial is: "Trust the car manufacturers, they are doing everything they can to lower polluting emissions" ( This page tends to prove the contrary ... ).

All the arguments presented are not entirely false, but they are biased. Imagine that you are an entrepreneur and that you read this text: would you then take the risk of engaging your company in a perspective of sustainable development? Certainly not. This is the kind of brainwashing, the single thought that paralyzes the search for alternative solutions ...

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