The German transport minister has declared that he will have to enforce a complete ban on driving at weekends throughout the country in order to comply with current climate ‘net zero’ laws.
Yes, really.
Volker Wissing has suggested changing the law to exclude the transport sector from carbon emissions reduction targets for now, because it is basically impossible without outlawing people getting in their cars.
Wissing has stated that the law needs to be changed before mid-July, otherwise he has no choice but to take the drastic action.
In a letter to coalition parliamentary group leaders, Wissing wrote “A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible through restrictive measures that are difficult to communicate to the population, such as nationwide and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays.”
The Green Party and the Social Democrats (SPD), who are in a government coalition with Wissing’s pro-business FDP party, accused him of scaremongering along with the likes of Greenpeace who claim Wissing is blocking climate protection measures.
The leader of the FDP, finance minister Christian Lindner, backed Wissing, noting “The climate protection law of the previous government could soon lead to driving bans.”
Wissing doubled down in a radio interview, urging that he just “told the citizens the truth. You can only save such large amounts [of emissions] by giving up cars and trucks.”
“Those like Greenpeace and the Greens, who always say that the climate protection law must remain as it is, may now be frightened by the consequences of their policies,” he added.
Next up, carbon passports in order to travel…
Then climate lockdowns…
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They did no driving Sundays in Switzerland fifty years ago. I was in St Gallen then and it would have been an inconvenience had I been a licensed driver at the time. This won’t work even as well as that did, and Germany is much larger with much hinterland that’s bus and private vehicles only. And Germans love their cars, always have, but many more car owners now, and they want to drive. It took a bus ride and two S-Bahn commuter trains and walking a kilometer for me to get to work in a Munich suburb then, or twenty minutes by car. Lots of people didn’t own cars, but they had access to one. Today there’s more cars, and Germany is a difficult place to expand roadway traffic capacity. For example, the main road west to Landsberg from Munich started out a broad multilane Autobahn and shrank to two lanes outside the city, passing through a Naturschützgebiet (nature protective zone) and a Ruhegebiet (quiet zone) and couldn’t be expanded.
The successful model to reduce traffic congestion will be the implementation of modern technology to meter the elapsed time/distance/routes traveled by private vehicles, like a taxi meter but for the purposes of taxing the driving public. And charge a premium for weekends in popular areas. It should cost more to drive around Munich or Berlin on Sundays than Passau or Klagenfurt. Demand pricing is in use anywhere demand can be quantified and monetized. Simply registering a vehicle doesn’t confer an ongoing unlimited use of the vehicle anymore, because the actual cost of the use of that vehicle to society is proportional to it’s time on the society’s roads. This won’t make sense to many here in the US, but Germany, though not small in any European comparison, is almost not comparable to this country size wise. Traffic was usually heavy on the road to anywhere you’d want to to go in continental Europe in those days, and it’s hard to believe that it’s gotten better. That’s much fairer than just cutting off all car use, and will generate multiple little streams of income as tax revenue and encourage some to stay home or walk or bicycle. Others will pay and suck it up. Map the areas where no public transportation is available and automatically waive the fees. Do the same risk calculation for insurance, the present system is ludicrous. Technology will eventually destroy the nation-state, but until then we should make it sing for it’s supper.
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Total, complete and UTTER BULLSHIT, get rid of these MORONS and those that serve them.
“Why “Net Zero” And Other Environmental Narratives Being Pushed Are Manipulative Lies” Jordan Peterson [04/04/23] [6:19] “This notion that Net Zero on the carbon front is necessary is a Lie. The idea that we’re going to manage it by 2030 is preposterous beyond comprehension. The Biden Administration itself has already admitted that it will be 240 years with optimistic projections before we can approximate anything like Net Zero, so all this is just a complete bloody lie and he might say well you know it’s no worse a lie than many other lies that we’ve been told and I suppose that might be true except that what we’re seeing in places like Germany for example is that as we move hypothetically towards these idiot pathological net zero propositions we get more unreliable power at a much higher cost, like four to five times as high, so that industry starts to move to places like China, which by the way don’t have the best environmental regulations, and it’s made Germany hyper reliant on Russia and, more to the point, even on the environmental front is there’s no evidence whatsoever that what Germany has done well. They’ve devastated their reliable sources of power. (cont’d) […]” | This is one of the best comments I have seen about “net Zero”.
As society inches closer to what we see in the classic sci-fi movie THX1138, CO2 content in the atmosphere sits at a very low .04%. Yet these assholes want to remove even that, judging by their insane comments and projects.
As in the Nazi Soviet Union, only the “gods” will ultimately be allowed to have vehicles!
But their White Slaves won’t complain! They never do! 😁
Hitler gave the German people the volkswagon in 1943 and encouraged them to travel, please study real history before using the term “Nazi”.
Bring it on. Until all the crazy evil ideas are in the masses faces nothing will change…..
Insanity. Do they really think they can enforce this? The lunatics have been emboldened after the sheep complied with Covid lockdowns, but there aren’t enough police to catch everyone. Wake up sheeple – ‘net zero’ is an even bigger scam than Covid.
Sorry, but no…not gonna happen.