Driving bans, more and more stringent limit values, a hysterical fine dust debate – this mixture has to make the stuff, a German key industry platform. Can we really want to? No, says Henrik Böhme.
The fire Department comes soon to be with the tram? Because you are not allowed to drive your diesel-driven fire-fighting vehicle in the residential area? Or do we want to have relationships like in the GDR? There is political bureaucrats decided once about how the people have to move. The socialist state citizens don’t need individual mobility Bus and rail should suffice. So you slowed the tradition of car manufacturers in Zwickau and Eisenach.
To the extent that it could come back today, in the ban Republic of Germany. The opponents of the individual transport mobility. Your enemy is the car. With a debate on the fine dust that is hard to beat in hysteria. Of 100,000 diesel dead! Polluted Cities! The car as a mass murderer! A campaign to reach your target. A series of adopted dishes, driving bans, because limits are exceeded. Brussels orders, however, is always new, even lower limit values. For cars, anyway. But this is only the beginning.
The thing with the dust
The debate has completely dissolved from the soil of reality. Nobody asks any more whether the measurement stations measure in the right height and in the right place. The things are different in each city. Once on the green strip, the wall of the House, they are not exposed to the sunlight. This confuses even the Chancellor, who was either time, climate and time auto-Chancellor, but now the same tricks as the car manufacturer. She announces to change laws so that no bans are necessary. To announce a day later, not around the screw on the limit values, which were finally European law.
Henrik Böhme, DW-business editor, travels with a penchant bike.
This, we call it friendly: miss understanding, illustrates only too well, the white is actually no more where to go on holiday. Maybe help, even if we live in the post-factual age, a couple of facts. With the dust – this is the wrong matter at the wrong place – for example, the is such a thing. Between five and 300 tons of it every day fall to the earth. The is stirred up, among other things, by the Wind and the sun. This makes fine-dust measurements, so damn complicated. Now the cars come into play. The fine dust emissions in the road transport only for a small part from the exhaust, you arise to 85 percent by the abrasion of tires and brakes. (That’s why: bikes generate fine dust.)
And the cars (also due to stricter limits, right) blew less gases into the air. Never the air in our cities was so good! This justifies the campaign against the car – better: the campaign against the individual mobility – unchecked to continue? Because one, you have to be aware of: The diesel driving bans are only the beginning. The Diesel is first defeated, it will go to the internal combustion engine, in principle, to the collar. Then the smokers, once and for all. At some point, the fireplace owner. A wood-burning stove, mostly to be found in the chic apartments of the prosperity generation, is causing tons of fine dust, especially if you burn the wrong wood. And what are we gonna do if the next Time that Sand from the Sahara is coming over the Mediterranean sea, flown? Fine dust alarm high ten! The German environmental aid then signs to ban at the border? Sahara dust is forbidden!?
The “clean” solution
But clearly, the solution to The problem is found for a long time. the electric car. Quiet, clean, eco-friendly. Although just what for better earners, but no matter. The only downside is that the electrical Marvels have a modest environmental footprint. We take all the latest, straight from Daimler group presented the electric car, the EQC. The first all-electric Mercedes, have to from the coming year for affordable 70.000 Euro in the basic version. The battery weighs an incredible 650 kilograms. Just stupid, that solely in the production of a single of these monster cells twelve to 16 tonnes of CO2 generated. Plus the approximately seven tons, which is incurred anyway in the production of each individual car. Since the driver of each fossil-laughs-powered cars: With a carbon dioxide-balance he can go to the locker to 200,000 kilometers!
To say it clear: The car companies have brought in by their trickery even in the situation they are today. So were boys from beloved children of the policy of the beating. But, If it is not just about the car, but only about what can be banned next, then it goes to the substance. Then it goes to the freedom of the Individual. One of the fundamental rights of our democratic order. This must be clear, the driving bans.