"Anne Will" on Climate Policy: And then Scheuer hands over to Özdemir

In the end, unfortunately, the question was missing which innovative mobility concepts the participants of this round probably use individually to make their homecoming in the hotel or at home. After all, it was with "Anne Will" to "renounce, increase the cost, prohibit" and the question, "how radical" because a climate policy must be, which really deserves this name.

Now it is more heartfelt than radical and also no politics in the narrower sense, to put in the hallowed halls of the IAA with a "climate killer" poster on the roof of a VW. Nevertheless, Marion Tiemann and her colleagues from Greenpeace were briefly in police custody for this action. Protest would not be a joke, according to Tiemann, but "out of necessity".

One-fifth of all greenhouse gases go back to the car, with the devastating SUV accident in Berlin, mobility as a social issue has once again become public awareness. Tiemann argues with offensive urgency. It calls for renouncement, prohibitions, higher prices and presumably goes home by bike after the broadcast.

Andreas Scheuer (CSU), however, admits openly: "I like driving e-Tron", an SUV from Audi, but also "like a hydrogen GLC Mercedes" when he's not on the road with the e-scooter, he drives probably just everything , truck, tractor, Unimog, ICE, and indeed "to test it!"

Among his other duties as Minister of Transport Scheuer counts, "to ensure the mobility of the people in Germany", of course, with an eye to an industry, but he "does not want to talk", because he was - keyword diesel scandal - "human massively disappointed" ,

No upper limit for SUVs - rather higher taxes

Although Scheuer sometimes talks as if BMW were insulting him ("Mobility has never been as emotional as it is today!"). Almost every criticism of the auto-centric policy of his ministry, he fends back with reference to numerous, sometimes even contradictory studies and plans.

"I think that mobility has never been as emotional as it is today," says @AndiScheuer at #AnneWill. #Climate #Climate Policy # Mobility pic.twitter.com/ouf0p5YjZ7

"On the way" would or have been investments in the development of new propulsion technologies, the expansion of the rail, a new "Highway Code as a novella for pedestrians and cyclists", all sorts of things. What even Angela Merkel has called "Herculean task", a reduction of CO2 emissions by 40 percent by 2030 - Scheuer shouldered.

Counterparty and Duzfreund Cem Özdemir of the Greens sees that naturally different. He does not agree with demands for a SUV cap for cities, too impractical. He would like to regulate "deeply market-based" on a higher vehicle and possibly registration tax for those who like to drive SUV.

In the countryside, the citizen has little alternative to the car, says @cem_oezdemir at #AnneWill and criticizes the transport policy of the federal government. # Mobility # public transport #limit policy pic.twitter.com/qxDZULvxQr

"But speaking differently with the German automotive industry"

Which of course will get over, who can afford an Audi Q8 or BMW X7. Making the car "unattractive," as Tiemann demands, will not succeed in this way - and is also not in the interest of Özdemir, who aspires to the group presidency of his party and Scheuer rather attacks on its terrain.

Scheuer endangered "the automobile location Germany", because he snows future technologies. The scolded man puts the attacks in and out, folds his hands: "For God's sake, Cem, oh dear, dear," and adds later: "But speak differently with the German automotive industry, behind closed doors".

In Özdemirs notch but also beats Stefan Wolf from the supplier industry. The finds the accident of Berlin also "very terrible", as well as prohibitions. Particularly shocking in terms of electric mobility: "There is no reasonable charging infrastructure, even a reasonable plan for a charging infrastructure!"

"The idea of ​​banning SUVs in city centers says entrepreneur Stefan Wolf:" These are proposals that lack any practicability. "#AnneWill #Transport policy #Climate policy pic.twitter.com/5CE4PbUwqb

In the countryside, nothing goes without a car

In a circle, albeit a more interesting one, the debate also revolves around a distribution of burdens. Without the car, according to Scheuer, nothing would happen on the "flat land" and in the famous "Breite". Which in turn, as he must be accused by the "time" journalist Elisabeth Raether, is also on the dismantling of infrastructure in rural areas.

Apart from "maybe three streets in Heidelberg and three streets in Freiburg", Raether says that the car has political right of way in Germany. Of the "freedom" of the consumer, the scouring and also Wolf constantly in the mouth, could be no question. He had to take the car, because nothing else drives.

It must, says Scheuer, the craftsman in the country actually take the diesel, which is why this fuel is subsidized annually with seven billion euros, in favor of the brave craftsman. And a "German" key technology. And freedom. Scheuer says that products are "prescribed", remind him of the GDR.

Drive home in the shared taxi? Rather not

Thus, while the Minister continues to play off freedom of consumption against climate protection, Tiemann once again points out the need and urgency of burning forests in Brandenburg, "even the Arctic is burning", Brazil. Scheuer puzzled: "Now I am responsible for the Amazon?"

He prefers to remain in the province, rejects the "Berlin view" as privileged. And whispers last, "if people are afraid" of waiver, increase in prices, prohibition, changes in general, before higher registration tax anyway and a bus that never comes, well, then this country threatens another slippage to the right.

However the participants of this centrally-locked debate have come home, it will not have been a shared taxi.