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Transport policy : the SPD wants to check the speed limit on motorways

The Deputy SPD Chairman Ralf Stegner has called for the introduction of a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour on German highways, "to examine impartially".

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Transport policy : the SPD wants to check the speed limit on motorways

The Deputy SPD Chairman Ralf Stegner has called for the introduction of a speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour on German highways, "to examine impartially". The daily mirror Stegner said: "When a speed limit can make a demonstrable contribution to climate protection, then we must at least seriously consider."

The leaders of the left SPD wing in response to the strict no of Ministers of transport, Andreas Scheuer (CSU) to the corresponding proposals of the government Commission on the future of mobility. The working group "climate protection in the transport" had called in on Friday, known of paper next to the speed limit, a number of passenger car registrations for electric cars, as well as higher taxes on diesel fuels. To 52 cents per litre, the tax should be increased. Scheuer accused the experts then reality mind games "against all sense".

Stegner, the Commission adopted in protection. It is not that the Minister of transport "the ideas of the professionals in lock, stock and barrel" to condemn, without saying how he wanted the CO2-emissions in road traffic to reduce. "In Germany, too, not everything can stay the way it is, if we take global climate change seriously."

Green welcome proposals

Scheuers rejection of the proposals of the Commission also met with the German environmental aid (DUH) on hard criticism. "Scheuers reaction shows that he is not acting as a Minister, would be committed to the General welfare of the people, but as a representative of the automotive industry in the Cabinet," said DUH managing Director Jürgen Resch the daily mirror. A speed limit on motorways is long overdue.

Green party leader Anna Lena Baerbock welcomed the proposals of the government Commission. Finally the right questions are not discussed at all"," she told this newspaper. They reiterated the call of their party after a fast From for petrol and diesel engines in favour of environmentally-friendly drives. From Scheuer requested Baerbock more commitment. The Minister of transport had to drive climate protection. "It is also his Commission, whose proposals he has wiped out in the blink of an eye from the table," criticized the Green party leader. Baerbock has called for the introduction of a CO2 tax on all fossil fuels. To make are harmful to the environment motors for car buyers to be less attractive – thus, consumers are relying more on sustainable fuels.

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the Federal environment Minister, Svenja Schulze (SPD) did not want to take the proposals of the transport Commission. A spokesman pointed out that "the Ministry of transport must submit by the end of March proposals on how the climate target in the transport sector can be achieved". This means that Germany would have to launch by 2030, around 40 percent less CO2 than now.

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