German minister threatens ‘indefinite driving bans’ on weekends
By Paul Homewood
It has been obvious for some time that the powers that be want to get us out of our cars:
Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals if the ruling coalition does not pass reforms to the Climate Protection Act by July.
“The fact that the amendment is still not in force leads to considerable legal and factual uncertainties,” liberal politician Volker Wissing wrote in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders of the coalition, German outlet BILD reported Thursday.
“This serves neither the climate nor the reputation of the federal government," he said.
A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing added.
The planned amendment to the emissions-reduction law allows climate goals to be reviewed for compliance by looking at all sectors together instead of individually. If the overall target is missed two years in a row, then the federal government is to decide in which sector and with which measures the permitted total amount of carbon dioxide emissions is to be achieved by 2030.
If the planned reforms are not passed through parliament by July 15, Wissing warned, the Ministry for Digital and Transport would be obliged to submit an "immediate action program that ensures compliance with the annual emission levels of the transport sector" until 2030 — which would include a driving ban on weekends.
This may just be politicking, but the very idea that the German government could actually impose and enforce such a ban should send shivers down our spines.
And what may be just threats now have a habit of becoming formal policy a few years later.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
When they banned driving on Sunday, I said nothing . . . .
Indeed!
The German govt. is left wing progressive. Political movements that
claim to be ‘progressive’ always contain the seeds of autocracy in their
creed. They have decided they know what constitutes ‘progress’, progress
must not be stopped, no discussion can be allowed, it is (it always is)
essential for the human race.
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Pol Pot, the Labour Party. Lots
of others in history who knew best.
left wing progressive…. Aye it looks like it NOW. Until Oma got into power , I did not fully understand their politics: It seemed to care for both the worker AND Business. so what happened that an E German with their baggage should take over.
Stuff around the TV this morning from Europe & here, I was left with the feeling that “B Johnson …passionate about UKRAINE” & ‘call me Dive’ …. well shall we say, NOT passionate about the UK, When are we going to get leaders who ARE Passionate about a safe & Content UK. …. Scotland & Wales with their reversals of stupid policies but counter-react with MORE stupid policies…. Why are we voting in PARTY politicians and not Decent folk irrespective of Party to represent us ?
The lesson of the SNP in Scotland provides hope (bear with me!). The separatist SNP keep winning because the unionist vote always gets split three ways (Con/Lab/Lib). In the UK context, the current incumbents will always win if the opposition vote is split between Reform, Reclaim, Heritage and assorted other independents.
The essential first step to getting out of the mess we are in is for people to stop voting for the Con/Lab/Lib/SNP Uniparty, otherwise nothing will change. Constituencies need to somehow organise themselves to focus their votes on a single anti-Uniparty candidate to avoid splitting their votes.
What happens if you get ill at a weekend? Will no ambulances be allowed on the roads? Or doctors allowed to commute? Or will you be arrested if you try to drive to one of these presumably empty hospitals?
Are these people insane?
Worse, they are at best cowards and worst 5th columnists. they will support any garbage ideas IF their focus groups say there are votes there.
The left wing fanatics will introduce a permit system to allow “exceptional” travel at weekends – there will be local commandents who will have the power to decide who can travel. This is, after all, pretty much the system that prevailed in Soviet Russia and wo-betide anyone who fell out with the local burgermeister
…will gave the power to decide who can travel.
No, will sell you the right to travel. There will be rich kommisars who will take in the payments for travel. It’s always about money.
Over several years now the West has allowed and encouraged vast amounts of unchallenged brainwashing to the point that a significant majority of the population now believe most of what they are being told and are in favour of ever more drastic measures to support the zero carbon ambitions.
This was evidenced on Question Time this week when even the chairman Fiona Bruce encouraged the audience to castigate the only panel member who tried to put forward an alternative view and asked him point blank “Are you a climate change denier?!!” The poor chap was hung out to dry by her and most of the audience. A total disgrace and symptomatic of what we are seeing everyday.
So forget the idea that any common sense on the issues will be given air time. Eventually the courts will be used to criminalise anyone who steps out of line and the first people in the firing line will be car drivers who are in for a very rough ride indeed.
CC needs attack dogs like Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray, but the mainstream media only allows feeble “deniers”, so that they can be smeared.
Question Time this week
Tice needs to have concise, consistent responses to the usual comments by the believers
A concise response is that the IPCC, who’s remit is to compile evidence of anthropogenic climate change, has in its latest Assessment Report (AR6), concluded that a signal of climate change has not yet emerged beyond natural variability for heavy precipitation and floods. It’s just weather.
‘What the IPCC Actually Says About Extreme Weather’ [July 2023]:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-the-ipcc-actually-says-about
There is precisely zero Mr Tice could have done against that situation. QT is supposed to be a cross section of the local general public chaired by an impartial chair. Would nobody have dared to support his view in the real world? It clearly is no such thing as a representative group being instead a deliberately selected audience by the BBC to push their (and their’s alone) agenda. The chair is no more than their master’s voice – Fiona Bruce is just a typical prostitute presenter, so far up themselves they have long ceased to see the daylight of the real world.
A few years ago QT was broadcast from my local city (Canterbury). I was actually working on the site (University) in the evening at the time. I saw the “audience” arrive in coaches – none, not one, nor any at all of them were from within 50 miles of Canterbury. It would not surprise me if they were paid to be there – that is a measure of how unrepresentative they were.
Without knowing any of this my wife commented to me that it seemed odd that none of the audience had an even remotely local accent! The BBC is just a propaganda channel for its own bought and paid for activists running it and their sponsors.
I strongly recommend defunding the BBC
A concise response is …
Another concise response is that there is no proof that humans are responsible for dangerous climate change.
Tice could have mentioned “shared belief”; although expanding upon that with “just like a religion” might have been a step too far for the Question Time censors.
There is precisely zero Mr Tice could have done against that situation.
Tice needed to control the “dialogue” with simple one-liners dealing with cost, energy security and “lack of proof” . If pressed about the beliefs of scientists (and others) then he could have commented about shared beliefs that are unsupported by proof.
The attack by the Green Party re: Tice’s lack of a scientific background could have been undermined with a simple retort about not shooting the messenger and the importance of decisions being based on facts, not beliefs.
Climate fascism!
the word “liberal” has been redefined, as have so many words.
Does this mean they can’t do their traditional drive to Poland on a Sunday?
The World has very few strong leaders. The rest of us are pathetic cowardly sheep.
What specifically are Germany’s ‘climate goals’? Do we have any numbers? How will they know if they’ve succeeded! Just like UK of course .
Germany has just set a monthly record for companies going bankrupt in March and every week seems to bring a new announcement of job losses and transfer of production to another country, so I guess they are doing well.
It has been 30+ years since Gamecock was in Mexico City. Their program was odd/even license plate numbers. Odd/even days. I.e., you couldn’t drive 3 days of the week.
Wasn’t enough. Air pollution was unbelievably bad. “Don’t drink the water” wasn’t relevant. “Don’t breath” would be better advice. Plus it is at 7,300 feet elevation.
Saturday shopping. Retailers won’t like this . People go to church on Sunday . claims of Religious persecution. Lack of thought in this proposition is considerable.
It is just part of the politics of having a coalition government and not intended to ever become reality although given the ecofascist insanity that currently infects politicians, the media and mentally challenged members of the public, it sounds all too real.