Posted on 11/16/2018 4:14:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Efforts by courts to impose diesel driving bans are “self-destructive” and put German prosperity at risk, the transport minister warned Friday, as tempers flared in the battle against urban air pollution.
Speaking a day after a court in Essen became the first to order that sections of a major western highway be closed to older diesel vehicles, Andreas Scheuer lashed out at the “disproportionate” ruling.
“Judgments like these endanger the mobility of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Nobody understands this self-destructive debate,” Scheuer told Bild daily, adding that such bans “were unheard of in the rest of the world”.
The latest ruling follows a string of similar decisions ordering cities like Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart to bar the most polluting diesels from certain areas, alarming drivers nationwide.
A transport ministry spokesman said the debate had become “highly emotional” in the car-loving nation, where the auto industry is a pillar of economic growth and employs some 800,000 people. …
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Maybe they should Nuke them. I’m sure Eric Swalwell would approve.
Otto is spinning faster...
The electric trucking industry would support such bans...
I noted this week that Germans woke up and realized that the Bundestag had passed some law to allow data sharing of the national car registration database....with cities. Their comment was that if the cities would now just go and build some extensive network of special cameras (to read tags as cars enter cities)...then they could fine the guilty diesel drivers attempting to get around the diesel ban.
Cities then freaked out to some degree, because it’d cost tens of millions for this camera-gimmick and more money to run this month-by-month. The privacy discussion also came up.
One can sense that anti-diesel car group really overplayed their hand and it’s a fairly complicated mess now.
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