Status: 01.08.2023, 06:00 a.m.
By: Simon Mones
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100 euros for a liter of fuel. Sounds utopian, but that's exactly what a Berlin professor suggested on Twitter. This is the price of climate protection.
Driving a car is anything but cheap. This is not least due to the price of fuel, which is particularly high at motorway petrol stations. It is therefore often worthwhile to refuel in another European country on the way to your holiday. This could be all the more the case if the proposal by Gregor Bachmann, Professor of Civil Law and Corporate Law at Humboldt University, becomes reality. He recently suggested a fuel price of 100 euros on Twitter.
There, Bachmann wrote: "Only when a liter costs 100 euros or more will our dear fellow citizens slowly begin to think about whether it will be possible to do without a car." For example, climate protection through the pricing of CO2 would lead to many things becoming more expensive and no longer affordable for poorer people, the Berlin law professor told Bild: "This is (unfortunately) the price you have to pay for climate protection!"
100 euros per liter unrealistic: "But it is clear that the CO2 price has to go up significantly"
The problem with the mobility revolution is therefore that we have become accustomed to prosperity for all, "which can only be financed by everyone because it is at the expense of the planet and thus of third parties." From Bachmann's point of view, anyone who can afford a car is privileged, so it is more likely to affect the lower middle class.
Fuel prices in Germany are expensive, but not yet expensive enough, according to a Berlin professor. © Marijan Murat/dpa
"Driving a car has to hurt in order to accelerate the switch to more CO2-friendly means of transport," the law professor makes clear. But he also knows that a fuel price of 100 euros per liter is unrealistic. "But it's clear that the CO2 price has to go up significantly," Bachmann makes clear on Twitter.
Germans too comfortable to leave their cars at home
But many Germans are of the opinion that they are dependent on their car. A switch to public transport is not possible due to a lack of services, even if the willingness is there. Bachmann sees it differently, these people are just too comfortable. "There are also buses and trains in Hellersdorf and in the countryside. Of course, they don't drive there every five minutes, but that's the price to pay if you want to afford a house in the countryside," the law professor makes clear.
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By the way, he himself covers the 14 kilometers to work by bike. However, Bachmann is also aware that such demands are easier to make with a high salary. "But that doesn't change the coherence of the arguments. By the way, despite my good income, I also pay for climate-friendly behavior. Example: I live close to the subway in Zehlendorf, but I can only afford a 120 square meter house there (for five people)." He charges his electric car with green electricity.