Elections for the European Parliament will be held in June, and big changes appear on the horizon. The Green parties, who won big in 2019 and pushed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to present an ambitious climate agenda, are in decline. Led by disgruntled (and targeted) farmers, voters in at least 18 of the EU’s 27 member nations are expected to express disapproval of EU policies at the ballot box.

Perhaps the tiniest of the protests belongs to the European People’s Party (EPP). Just 19 months ago, self-described planet savers were cheering the European Parliament’s vote to ban the sale of internal combustion engines by 2035. Today, after first Germany and then other nations began questioning the wisdom of ceding the world’s automotive future to the inscrutable Chinese, the EPP has called for an end to government by fiat.

But the EPP just wants the EU to try carrots rather than sticks to impose their climate agenda. Rather than forcing Europeans into largely unwanted electric vehicles, the EPP called for relying on “innovative concepts and market-based instruments for climate protection with emissions trading, the expansion of renewable energies, and a circular economy.”

The EPP also pledged to “further develop” von der Leyen’s “Green Deal” package of economy-stifling climate laws. Net Zero by 2050, they insist, can be accomplished by persuasion and better policies – not mandates. But they dared not question the “science” that follows Al Gore’s mantra that decarbonization must be the “central organizing principle of civilization.”

What poppycock!

Germany’s weak proposal was to allow internal combustion engines in vehicles that only use synthetic “green” fuels – which today are quite expensive. Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic agreed, and soon after EU climate czar Frans Timmermans announced “an agreement with Germany on the future of e-fuels in........

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