CO2 law: 110,000 votes for referendum
ALL CLEAR The referendum against the CO2 law has come about. More than 110,000 voters are now demanding a vote on the CO2 Act, which is expected to take place on June 13, 2021. The broad-based business committee, which includes associations from a wide range of industries, together with the SVP, has collected around twice as many signatures as were needed for the [...]
Together with the SVP, the broad-based business committee, which includes associations from a wide range of industries, has collected around twice as many signatures as are required for the referendum - despite the difficulties in collecting them due to Corona.
Nerve struck wide sections of the population
Campaign manager Ueli Bamert: "With our referendum, we have struck a nerve with large sections of the population. Within less than three months, the committee of representatives from the automotive, transport, aviation, building and petroleum industries, as well as the SVP, succeeded in collecting more than twice the number of signatures. We are confident that the CO2 law will be voted down at the ballot box."
Contradiction of liberal traditions of Switzerland
In the committee's view, the CO2 law is by no means a well-balanced compromise, as its proponents would have us believe.
Ueli Bamert: "Rather, the law contradicts all of Switzerland's liberal traditions, because it leads to more bureaucracy, more prohibitions, more regulations, and new taxes and duties - and it places a disproportionate burden on large segments of the population."
Increase in the price of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and gas
Gasoline and diesel, for example, will become twelve centimes more expensive per liter. The tax on heating oil and gas will be more than doubled. A tax of up to 120 francs will be levied on airline tickets. For a family of four, this can result in additional costs of over 1000 francs per year.
In addition, there are hardly foreseeable additional costs for the general public due to the increase in the cost of transporting goods.
Switzerland is already on a successful path
Ueli Bamert: "All these measures to supposedly protect the climate will, however, fizzle out completely without effect. This is because Switzerland contributes just 0.1 percent of global CO2 emissions, while the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases such as China, the USA or India are nowhere near reducing their emissions significantly. The Swiss, on the other hand, have reduced their emissions per capita by nearly 24 percent over the past decade."
The already known pre-campaign under the motto "stay reasonable" will be continued.
