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Bundestag election: Laschet and Scheuer do not quite come to a common denominator when it comes to the fuel price brake

2021-09-12T11:20:40.994Z


Fuel for the car is becoming more expensive. The Federal Minister of Transport had brought a brake into play. Chancellor candidate Laschet does not believe in an exact value.


Fuel for the car is becoming more expensive.

The Federal Minister of Transport had brought a brake into play.

Chancellor candidate Laschet does not believe in an exact value.

Berlin - The price of fuel is an issue again and again in this election campaign for the federal election.

It heats the mind.

The numbers on the billboards of the gas stations will initially be higher, so it shouldn't matter which of the three candidates moves into the Chancellery.

Climate protection is the background.

Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) agreed on

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at the beginning of September that the election on September 26th would also be a vote on the price of fuel, as the parties differ here nonetheless.

And in an interview he discussed a proposal for a fuel price brake that should take effect from prices of two euros per liter.

In addition to the climate component, politics must also keep an eye on the social component.

Scheuer left open a concrete implementation of the idea.

But politicians are responsible for “the tax”, which “has a fairly large share” on the price of crude oil.

Accordingly, politicians must have the strength to intervene and correct.

Laschet on the dispute over fuel prices: "Nothing that the state should decree exactly to the nearest euro cents"

However, unlike Transport Minister Scheuer, Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) does not believe in a state-imposed fuel price brake for liter prices of two euros or more. "This is not something that the state should prescribe to the nearest euro cents," he said in an interview with

Tagesspiegel

. “A large part of the cost of every liter of petrol or diesel comes from taxes. In this respect, the state has a control mechanism so that nothing gets out of hand. "

Laschet continues: For people who are dependent on their car, the commuter allowance must be increased in order to compensate.

CSU party leader Markus Söder had already mentioned this: "If the price of petrol increases by ten cents, the commuter allowance has to be increased by one cent," he told

Welt am Sonntag

last.

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Federal election 2021: fuel prices could rise sharply in the next few years

The reason for the statements recently were, among other things, media reports that fuel prices could rise sharply in the coming years - due to a significantly higher CO2 price in the transport sector. This could be necessary for the transport sector to achieve climate goals. The nationwide daily average on Tuesday (September 7th) was E10 premium gasoline at 1.563 euros, diesel at 1.394 euros - as the ADAC had calculated. These were prices in the range of multi-year highs.

The Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock called Scheuer's statements an "absolute cardboard comrade debate".

"It is perfectly clear that the change in the automotive industry is mainly taking place because everything is not regulated by price, but that there is a clear exit date for the fossil combustion engine." She, too, advocates socially fair regulation.

(cibo / dpa)

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Source: merkur

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