Sustainable mobility, how much does it cost me. It is said: the fate of cars with traditional fuels is sealed. Yes, for 2035. But will it stay that way?
The minister Matteo Salvini he has a double imagination: in rallies he talks about 2035, hopes to change it and then adds that with the electric car he is doing China a favor. If only it were the first!
Time, as has been happening for some time with EU decisions, has become an anxious variable. When will the beloved endothermic four wheels actually retire?
Sure, the race building models powered by electric motors or clean fuels is in full swing. The finish line is set on the scoreboard but it is shrouded in so-called sovereignist mists.
Each ride has a cost and RiEnergia magazine tried to make the list. What's more, it published a study together with Assopetroli and Assoenergia which then takes stock. Gentlemen, let's prepare ourselves for a colossal round of money and just by observing Italy.
Goodbye petrol station attendants
Decarbonizing mobility has become a pedagogical mantra, according to which we will all try to travel with LCF (Low Carbon Fuels) and electric or hybrid small cars. Safe?
In the race we cannot "ignore the multiple effects associated with the elimination of the internal combustion engine which, upstream, would cause the destruction of an entire industrial sector and a network created over decades", he writes Lisa Orlandi, director of RiEnergia. Be careful what you want to do, without raising barricades. But let's scroll through the shopping list.
The first to breathe air without exhaust fumes would be 70 thousand workers in the current world of supplies. If we send them home we will have to take care of them 3,5 billion euros of state support. A small fee erga omnis, what do you want it to be. Then we have to reorganize spaces and electrical lines for the charging stations or other types of dispensers.
The old petrol stations to adapt the service stations to the distribution of methane, biomethane LNG/bio they can spend up to 800 thousand euros. Let's say they also have to dismantle and reclaim the areas and the cost of the motoring revolution rises by another 40, 50 thousand euros.
Not all pumps will survive the revolution which, as always, will have an opposing and counter-revolution. Virtues and sins will ultimately become equal.
“The abandonment of the traditional distribution chain, following the EU proposals, would lead to the gradual closure of practically all traditional sales points, bringing the overall cost to over 1 billion euros” is the cost of the final expenditure.
A risky ride?
How much is it worth for manufacturers and motorists to make the green leap? With the state of Italian public finances, how will we be able to support thousands of former petrol station attendants, truck drivers, warehouse and refinery workers? What market will we have in Italy for non-polluting cars? Fortune tellers are not very welcome.
“The considerations made - says Orlandi - do not intend to propose one replacement route to electric road mobility, which will be central to achieving the objectives of reducing emissions, but recalling some of the critical issues and sustainability issues that a scenario totally unbalanced on electric would entail".
The race is still long and given that the European Parliament will be renewed in six months, who can bet 1 euro that the race-revolution will cross the finish line in 2035?
