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Mr President, I thank the Commissioner for his clear words on energy efficiency; reducing demand in both the energy and transport sectors will be one of the important answers.
This weekend I was in Wels, Austria, attending one of the biggest renewable energy fairs. What has been done in Upper Austria could be done in other regions of Europe, because in Upper Austria today only 7% of all new houses are heated with oil. 20% of oil use in Europe is for heating houses. In Upper Austria they have more or less completely switched to wood pellets and other renewables. So we definitely need a directive to promote the use of renewables in the heat and cooling sector, in other words low-temperature energy uses.
Commissioner, I hope that your colleague, Mr Barrot, will contribute to your efforts to bring more efficiency to the transport sector. We are not efficient enough when it comes to standards for cars. We need a better modal shift in transport.
Another issue brings me to what oil companies could really do. We have a directive on biofuel. We have to finance the implementation of these directives from our limited public budgets. What if we obliged the oil companies that sell fuel in Europe gradually to increase the minimum amounts of green fuels available at the pumps? Then the payment would no longer have to come from scarce public resources, but from the huge profits of oil companies. This would be a very clear signal to the oil companies that they have to invest in alternatives and do more to promote them."@en1
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