to the energy market, the development of clean energy alternatives and you re very keen on your electric vehicles i get all of that at the macro level, but you don t spend any time talking about what we all, as individual inhabitants of this planet, should and could be doing differently. is that because you don t think individual behaviours really matter to whether or not we succeed in curbing the worst effects of climate change? it does very much. but, unfortunately, individuals make their choices based on the government decisions. for example, i mentioned electric cars, but there s other types of cars which are also breaking records, which is suvs. and if i was. many people are buying suvs, and the numbers are very strong in europe, us, china, india.
on the government decisions. for example, i mentioned electric cars, but there s other types of cars which are also breaking records, which is suvs. and if i was. many people are buying suvs, and the numbers are very strong in europe, us, china, india. if i was a responsible government, iwould put heavy taxes to suvs in order to provide a signal to the people in the street that this is a bad one. i am taxing the bad one so that the habits of the people change and they get the signal. so, we cannot rely only on the goodwill of the consumers, citizens. they should be, in my view, channelled by their governments and regulations and financial incentives or disincentives. that s a very interesting point. i was talking to an australian big businessman the other day who s investing massively in green hydrogen technology, and he was telling me that
it is not good news, and they wouldn t pass the test, in my view. it strikes me, as we talk, that we re talking completely in terms of what governments must do structural reforms to the energy market, the development of clean energy alternatives and you re very keen on your electric vehicles i get all of that at the macro level, but you don t spend any time talking about what we all, as individual inhabitants of this planet, should and could be doing differently. is that because you don t think individual behaviours really matter to whether or not we succeed in curbing the worst effects of climate change? it does very much. but, unfortunately, individuals make their choices based on the government decisions. for example, i mentioned electric cars, but there s other types of cars which are also breaking records, which is suvs. and if i was. many people are buying suvs, and the numbers are very strong in europe, us,
effects of climate change? it does very much. but, unfortunately, individuals make their choices based on the government decisions. for example, i mentioned electric cars, but there s other types of cars which are also breaking records, which is suvs. and if i was. many people are buying suvs, and the numbers are very strong in europe, us, china, india. if i was a responsible government, i would put heavy taxes to suvs in order to provide a signal to the people in the street that this is a bad one. i am taxing the bad one so that the habits of the people change and they get the signal. so, we cannot rely only on the goodwill of the consumers, citizens. they should be, in my view,
but they re not going to bring them back to the united states. that s trump s big point. we re going to force companies to build cars in the u.s. they can t do that and make a profit. we know automation was already happening. we know that or could it be that people are or not could it be, we know people are buying new cars with less frequency. it s not just ford. toyota, nissan, honda. they ve all reported declining car sales. can we really point the layoffs on tariffs or can some of it be people buying less cars? this is a bigger story than just trump and tariffs. it is a reorganization in the auto industry. people are certainly buying less passenger cars. they re buying suvs, light trucks, much more so than sedans. companies are optimizing. so let s not put all the blame on trump for what s happening in the auto industry and changes. but the fact remains that they are going to be less profitable. they re going to be less agile. if these tariffs are in place.