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Posted on 12/17/2022 9:44:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
As the automotive sector braces for job losses in the wake of increased competition and the end of the combustion engine, bicycle manufacturers are encouraging redundant workers to enter the growing cycling industry.
Europe’s auto industry faces an uncertain future as competition from Chinese carmakers intensifies, and factories jettison decades of internal combustion engine knowledge to focus on zero-emission vehicles.
Some 3.4 million people are employed across the EU by the car industry, both directly and indirectly.
Internal combustion engines require hundreds of components, involving a broad supply chain of companies.
But according to CLEPA, a Brussels-based body representing automotive suppliers, a complete shift to electric vehicles could leave more than 500,000 employees in Europe out of work by 2040, or around 84% of the current combustion engines workforce.
While EV production will create new jobs, the net loss is expected to reach 275,000 autoworkers by 2040.
Amidst the predicted job losses, the bicycle manufacturing sector is positioning itself as an unlikely life-raft for out-of-work auto employees. …
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Bet those auto workers are glad their unions supported all the eco fascism.
Bet those auto workers are glad their unions supported all the eco fascism.
Candles, wood, bicycles and shoe leather. Welcome to your brave new world.
At best, they will earn half the wages in this “booming” industry.
Hear tell that a few buggy whip makers are needed once the horse and carriage trade picks up.
“and the end of the combustion engine.....”
Best LOL! I have had all day.
The sooner the EV fantasy runs headlong into reality the better.
Simpler to restart ICE production than to have begin from scratch.
The only way the EV fallacy works is if most of the world population is sent to the killing fields first.
It helps that bike robberies throughout Europe is at a all-time record.
> Bet those auto workers are glad their unions supported all the eco fascism. <
I’m somewhat familiar with unions, having been a member of one union or another for 30+ years. Now here’s the thing. The union leadership rarely reflects the views of the membership. The leadership is hard left. The membership pretty much mirrors society at large: liberal, conservative, and everything in between.
Yet those leaders get re-elected time and again. Why? It’s because they employ voting methods that would make Stalin blush. Oh, the stories I could tell you.
It is a difficult question. How do you have a representative government when you share a union with people who only believe in voting so far as it empowers them. How do you remove, or dis-empower people who would enslave you without giving up your own principles?
Seems like a metaphor for the US current situation.
Bicycles? They want to live in Beijing, circa 1972?
#SoccerSoGay
It would be so much easier to simply maintain their fuel-based economy and combustion engine vehicles. But Western civilization wants to self destruct to save the planet (they think.)
That's because unionism IS collectivism.
Then the members need to take control. Since they did not, they approved of the hard left leadership. No sympathy.
I like to encourage laid off legacy media journalists to learn to mine coal.
The wages are similar. In most of Europe, like the east coast, public transport and bicycles are far more efficient than cars.
That won’t work for most of the USA, so you can’t compare the two
I ride my bicycle every week for exercise, but I wouldn't want to rely on it for travel. I have a motorcycle for that.
Here is a small motorcycle that could take over the world (Honda 125 Trail):
Here's the motorcycle I ride:
I expect most of these laid off workers voted for the government that caused the layoffs.
Nice, from maintaining and programming robotic assy. machines to oiling Bike chains. Nice career change.
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