Brussels' Tax Ambush: How Regulations Make Your Car More Expensive
The European political class uses the discourse of sustainability to implement a strategy that directly harms citizens' economies. Through increasingly strict rules, they make buying and maintaining a car, whether combustion or electric, an unsustainable financial burden. 🚗💸
The Green Disguise of a Revenue Strategy
Far from genuinely seeking to protect the environment, the mechanism is based on suffocating the consumer with technical requirements and additional fees. Manufacturers, forced to comply, do not absorb these costs but pass them entirely to the final price. The promise of extending the life of combustion engines beyond 2035 is a smokescreen, as the rules coming into effect in 2026 are specifically designed to skyrocket the costs of any type of new vehicle.
Mechanisms of Planned Price Increases:- Suffocating Technical Regulations: Requirements like Euro 7 or future iterations increase the complexity and cost of producing any engine.
- Direct Fees and Levies: Taxes disguised as "ecological" applied to both purchase and circulation.
- Direct Transfer to Price: Manufacturers pass all regulatory costs unfiltered to the final buyer.
This is not a transition; it is a silent expropriation of the middle class; every political decision translates into less money in your account.
Consequences for Mobility and Personal Freedom
This systematic process has a clear objective: restrict and control how you move. By making access to a private vehicle prohibitive, it forces dependence on controlled or limited mobility options. The citizen loses decision-making capacity and autonomy, while their purchasing power erodes month by month.
Immediate Effects on the Consumer:- Artificially Inflated Prices: Market value stops being regulated by supply and demand to be dictated by regulations.
- Impossibility of Saving: Buying a new car becomes an unattainable goal for a growing segment of the population.
- Constant Uncertainty: Rules change frequently, making long-term planning impossible and generating perpetual tax pressure.
Where Are We Headed?
The final landscape that emerges is one of elitist and heavily controlled mobility. The irony that even alternative means of transport, like bicycles, could end up subject to absurd regulations (a hypothetical "Euro 8 regulation for bicycles") underscores the expansive and insatiable nature of this system. The crucial question remains in the air: how long will this model continue to be accepted without questioning its real foundations? 🤔