SZ podcast: At the weekend: How the FDP wants to turn the traffic around – politics
The transport sector again fails to meet its climate targets. Valentin Abel, FDP member of the Bundestag and transport politician, explains how this should change.
For a total of 30 long hours, the traffic light coalition met at the coalition committee last week to clarify points of contention in the government. The biggest conflicts were in climate protection – and in transport. The transport sector under Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has breached the federal government’s climate targets on several occasions. How does the FDP want to create the traffic turnaround towards climate-neutral mobility?
Valentin Abel, FDP member of the Bundestag and transport politician, says: “Money alone is not enough.” You have to create attractive offers – for example with the train or with the charging infrastructure for e-cars – “but the decision to vote with your feet and then actually make climate-friendly decisions is up to all of us.” E-fuels would also play a role in this, although Abel also says: “There is a realistic possibility that e-fuels will not prevail.” Because “in the area of private users, electromobility will be battery-electric mobility to a large extent for the foreseeable future.” It is of course “most efficient – especially when I look at private transport – if I get the electricity almost directly from the wind turbine into my electric car,” says Abel.
The editorial deadline for this program was Friday, March 24, 2023 at 6 p.m.
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