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Divide et impera!
“Let
devide and you dominates”, said the Romans. If the enemy is
divided, it can easily be conquered. From here, the creation of
small frontier countries covering the governors and their
second-in-command with honour. Tearing apart the tribes of the
barbarians in internal conflicts for some sesterces and a
few more arable fields to those in command. Arousing envy and
rivalry that move the
 attention of the oppressed from the true
enemy: the oppressor. Even in this way, Rome dominated the world
for 1 000 years.
And in the
world of the barbaric supporters of ecological
fuels, who attack the frontiers of the polluting tradition,
there is a dominating empire that does not want to succumb.
Therefore, the history lesson can be adapted perfectly:
Divide et impera. If the LPG and natural gas sector was
cohesive, the automobile empire – in Italy read Fiat, just to be
clear – it would find itself confronting a stronger counterpart,
capable of contracting on the incentives, on the guarantees, the
after-market, the assistance, the distribution network, etc,
etc. It would mean negotiating, united, with the Government in
order to obtain the goal that both, separately, profess: more
attention to ecological fuels. In the middle of the battle field
are the users/drivers who cannot comprehend the political
subtlety and the highest systems of the ideological conflicts,
but well understand that there are now no more incentives for
those who wish to purchase a new gas-fuelled vehicle or convert
their own to LPG or natural gas. We are talking about the
continuous struggle that some noble exponent of the natural gas
world, an ecological fuel, continues to obstinately accomplish
against LPG, an equally ecological fuel.
Even if only to
request incentives just for natural gas or special laws ad
carburantem. Head-on collision, without quarter. With
various conventions, small exclusive trade fairs and
mono-thematic glossy magazines. Even making conveniently
recruited big shots take to the
field, not to fight the mutual enemy, but to try to reduce or to
limit the influence of the only true potentially. But: Dividi
et domina, as the empire commands. Lavish some money, some
prestigious role, while deciding the end of the incentives and
launch a plan for the imminent ecological future: electric and
hybrid cars. In this way, the barbarians will finally be
united and content, in common defeat. While the big shots
recycle themselves in imperial adventures, always ready to serve
the dominator of the day, who will again win by dividing the
barbarians at their own frontiers.
Ugo Nazzarro
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