German Court Rules Cities Can Ban Vehicles to Tackle Air Pollution

Recently, Germans highest administrative court recently ruled that cities can begin to ban vehicles on the streets of towns in Germany. This is in an effort to improve air quality in surrounding urban areas of cities. This could though have a major impact on the economy because of the fact that Germany is major producer of diesel powered cars and just cars in general. There were 15 million diesel cars on the streets of Germany

I think that this is going to effect the economy in Germany in a drastic way if many towns actually follow through with this. Germany uses diesel cars all the time and produces them so many businesses are going to be effected by this. This will majorly impact the economy. This is also could help Germany with the air pollution problems there. But the German market for cars would not be good. I think this ban should not happen.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/business/energy-environment/germany-diesel-air-pollution.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront


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