Germany’s Green Party Plans To Ban Petrol Cars

Germany’s Green Party has launched a frontal attack on petrol and diesel engines: According to their plan, there will be no newly registered vehicles with combustion engines by 2036.

Vehicles with environmentally harmful petrol or diesel engines are to disappear in the next 20 years from large parts of Germany’s roads. This will be achieved, inter alia, by subsidies for electric cars as well as the strengthening of bus and train infrastructure.

This climate policy has emerged from a plan that the parliamentary Green Party in the Bundestag intends to adopt at its meeting in Weimar. The aim of the eco-party is to ban fuels oil from the Germany after the coal phase-out.

“We Greens want to get away from oil on the road over the next 20 years. We want to give cities, cyclists and pedestrians enough room that is free of toxic emissions,” it says in the draft of their “Weimar Declaration on Climate Change”, the news agency dpa reports.

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