“Diesel-summit brings barely pollutant reduction”

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The German environmental aid (DUH), the resolutions of the Diesel-summit, around two weeks ago, for deficient. And want to move on to driving bans in court.

Jürgen Resch looks combative in the round. Rarely is a press conference of the “Deutsche umwelthilfe” (DUH), the managing Director Resch, so a lot of the audience dressed like today. The hall in Berlin is full. No wonder: Resch organization is driving with his environment-and consumers-especially car companies and the Federal government. He seems determined to do exactly so on. At the end of July, the “environment had reached the help” in front of the administrative court in Stuttgart that the authorities do not need to impose driving bans for Diesel vehicles, if you fail to comply with the strict EU limits for nitrogen oxides and fine dust. What most of them do not actually do this. On the contrary, With Software Tricks, the car had misled companies for years about the extent of the actual emissions.

“We need Diesel-driving bans”

In a total of 16 German cities Resch has to run with his staff complaint similar to the one in Stuttgart. Now he says: “We want to safely be able to breathe. And for that we need Diesel-driving bans, unless the vehicles are technically upgraded and are clean.”

Pugnacious fighter for driving bans for Diesel vehicles: Jürgen Resch

Then he lists the horror figures: About 10 000 people a year die from the effects of bad air especially in the German cities, three times more than in traffic accidents. Hundreds of thousands would become ill.

“Mickey Mouse Politics”

Very bad way, the policy comes at the Resch. Two weeks ago, had agreed to the government with car manufacturers on a “Diesel-summit” in Berlin on improvements to five million vehicles. An Update of the exhaust gas Software will help to reduce the pollutants. With the premiums the corporations curls since your customers, from the older to the new, clean cars instead. Resch called a “Mickey Mouse politics”, which at best could lead to a reduction of pollutants by five percent.

“It was never about the health at the summit”

On the summit, invited the Minister of the environment Barbara Hendricks (SPD), and Minister of transport Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) had a falls Resch: “It was not about the health of the citizens, the environment, and it was also to climate protection. It was only to keep the car companies more in the back.” The summit had also decided to withdraw a 500 million-Euro Fund, of the economy and the government fed, to help the cities in the transition to clean vehicles especially in public transport. Resch: “The finances kind of a family Fund, an equal number of spouses the Federal government and the Auto industry. I find it as a construct, an absurdity, that a government draws up the equivalent of the industry to Finance a Fund and, in the end, the conditions dictate.”

There might be soon: prohibition sign for Diesel vehicles.

“All sound and smoke”

Alone, a costly retrofitting of the vehicles, a cost of about 1500 to 2000 euros per car, could help to re-Resch-old claims. Some of the billions of euros it would cost to corporations, experts estimate. The announcement by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), soon to be a top meeting on the subject of Diesel to want to stop, may be said to Resch: “All sound and smoke”. Only a fixed rate for electric cars Resch finds in the end. Such a rate is being discussed by the policy violently. However, according to Resch, don’t help also immediately: “Always refer to the future. For the air, the now has no effect.” And that is why Resch presented a road sign, there is not yet even on German roads: A driving ban sign for Diesel vehicles. Jürgen Resch and his environment help to continue to take care of a lot of Trouble. In the government and in the boardrooms of the German car companies.