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Climate policy: SPD politicians demand special taxes for SUV

2019-09-13T16:07:41.274Z


Are heavy SUVs still in time? Leading Social Democrats want to push the "PS monsters" off the market. In SPIEGEL they demand special taxes.



Prominent social democrats announce the fight to the SUV. "I am in favor of a hefty taxation of such horsepower monsters that fit into the unpaved slopes of the Wild West rather than in our cities," said deputy SPD leader Ralf Stegner to SPIEGEL. "This is ecologically appropriate, financially the right and is also in terms of road safety for pedestrians - especially for children.This strange preference for far oversized street tanks is what some Americans are their firearms." (Read the full story here).

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Just in time for the IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt, the debate over the big, heavy SUV, which is very popular with customers, intensified last week. It was fueled by a fatal accident in Berlin, in which an SUV had strayed off the street and raced across the sidewalk and killed four people. Above all, SUVs have been criticized for a long time because they consume more fuel than sedans or station wagons with comparable space and therefore emit more CO2. They are therefore in sharp contrast to all efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.

Karl Lauterbach, who like Stegner applies for the SPD presidency, demands: "We need an unbureaucratic CO tax with special surcharges for SUVs." These symbols of increasing selfishness in society must be pushed out of the inner cities. " Faction Vice Matthias Miersch demanded that one should "consider whether we make oversized new cars more expensive when buying, so people refrain from it.It should everyone know, the space in the city is limited."

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Source: spiegel

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