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22 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
As you might have noticed, I'm not the biggest fan of the automotive industry. But this article on the links between German carmakers and the Orban regime shocked even me. 😱 Must-read.
It documents how German automakers receive large subsidies from the Hungarian state... Image
...while car production accounts for a large share of jobs in Hungary... Image
...as part of this arrangement, the article suggests, German car makers refuse to have advertising in independent Hungarian media outlets 😲 Image
These excerpts of conversations between Hungarian government officials and German businessmen are quite chilling 😱 Image
The article suggests that subsidies and tax cuts to car industry (along with arm deals!) are used by the Hungarian government to soften Germany's and CDU's stance re: Hungary & Fidesz at the EU level. Image

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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
8 Oct
The German government is pretty keen on (talking about) eFuels re: decarbonising transport. Good thread here on why it look like a bad idea.
In a nutshell ⬇️
It is of course *entirely possible* that the enamourment with eFuels is not authentic, but more a means to an end (= avoiding any move away from the internal combustion engine).

That would make this a "discourse of climate delay" (see paper & thread ⬇️

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18 Aug
New paper on #EnergyPoverty and #TransportPoverty with the brilliant @CaitHRobin just published in Energy Research & Social Science doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

Thread on the main findings...
This is one of those collaborations-that-had-to-happen. England provides modelled estimates of #FuelPoverty for low-level geographies, which is pretty unique. And @CaitHRobin has analysed that data in depth, in this paper...
...and this one...
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2 Jul
You know when someone accepts man-made climate change, but then explains why we should do nothing about it?

We call these "Discourses of #ClimateDelay" & there are 12 of them. We've written a paper about it doi.org/10.1017/sus.20…

THREAD with examples from the transport sector
The first group of discourses of climate delay aims to *redirect responsibility*. It accepts that *someone* should take action to mitigate climate change, but not us, not right now, not our business / sector / town.

Wee see plenty of that in the transport sector.
Discourse of #ClimateDelay #1: Individualism.

It's when they pretend that climate action is just a question of individuals making different choices. The goal is to avoid talking about anything that goes beyond that.
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7 Jun
The city of #Leeds set up a #ClimateChange Citizen's Jury with the task of producing recommendations.

It recommended to stop the planned expansion of the local airport.

The city council's reponse is a masterclass in #ClimateDelay discourse [Thread] democracy.leeds.gov.uk/documents/b229…
What do we (we're preparing a paper on this) mean by 'discourses of climate delay'? This:
So Leeds council statement combines several types of climate delay discourse. Let's go through (and debunk) them one by one.

1) what we call "whataboutism". Leeds airport accounts for a trivial amount of air travel emissions, so why bother? Let the others do something about it.
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18 May
How do automotive interests shape the media landscape?

What's happening in Italy right now provides a particularly clear/extreme example

Repubblica is one of the top 2 Italian daily newspapers. It was owned since the 1970s by the De Benedetti family. Until 2020...

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In 2020 the Editorial group that owns Repubblica was acquired by the Agnelli family - major shareholders of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
ft.com/content/945ca7…
Note that another of the main Italian newspapers, La Stampa, has been (and still is) controlled by the Agnellis for most of its history. They also owned shares of Corriere della Sera (top daily for sales) for 30+ years.
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20 Apr
For the #ClimateCrisis, we need to reduce car ownership & use. And yet it’s so hard to do. Why?

We believe it has to do with the political economy of car dependence

Thread on my new @liliproj paper with @JKSteinberger @bikeademic & Andrew Brown

doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…
If you sometimes find sustainable transport research / discourse

➡️ too apolitical
➡️ too much focused on consumption
➡️ too much focused on ‘win-win-win’

You might like this review paper.
We adopted a heterodox economics approach to look into the main factors underpinning car dependence, across both consumption *and production*.

Find them below in our tongue-in-cheek ‘evil pentagram of car dependence (which does *not* appear in this form in the paper 😊)
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