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failed car lobby - reduction objectives clearly missed

shows once more the car lobby their ugly face: Despite clear arrangements they missed the reduction targets in the consumption of new vehicles significantly.

The fuel consumption by sales of new cars will decrease little. The agreed upon by the federal government and car lobby reduction target moves so far away. The federal government is now considering punitive taxes on cars with high fuel consumption.

use in 2006 cars sold an average of 7.62 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers, as The Federal Office of Energy (BFE) informs. They are only 0.05 liters or 0.65 percent less than last year. The agreed between the Transport Department and the car importers target of 6.9 liters for 2006 was clearly missed.
The target agreement between the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) and the car importers provides that the fuel consumption is reduced gradually through 2008 to 6.4 liters. The Bottom Line is last year's figures that the agreement had failed, BFE spokeswoman Marianne said ignition on request.

main reason for the stagnation in fuel consumption, according to the preference of the BFE Swiss car buyers for heavy vehicles: With 1491 kg increased the average curb weight of new cars from 2005 to 13 kilograms. In the last six years the average car was even heavier by 128 pounds.
That makes all the technical advances of two decades Betting: Lay in 1990, the consumption of a 1000-pound vehicle is still over 7.5 liters, requires an equally heavy car today only 5.11 liters.

The federal government wants to tighten from 2009, so the screw. give it two ways, said ignition: either it was negotiating a new agreement with car importers - but this time with concrete measures and impose sanctions if the targets were not achieved. The second
Option, whether directly intervene at the legislative level: high hopes, the BFE in the introduction of an import tax on cars with high fuel consumption. This bonus / malus system will be discussed in the summer in the Environment Commission of States.

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It's always amazing how the industry creates apparent needs that detract from the reality of the necessary action and reconsideration. No longer determined only demand the offer, but it is first created specifically - a decade ago was being ridiculed, who has made a Vierlivier purchased for the city.
The recipe is always the same: creating a demand by billionaire Campaigns - then we use these same demand as an excuse for the lack of action.

Consider: one that naturally have their own car and in which this commitment and for recreational and industrial traffic, is a development that has used really only in the 70s - and yet it is us now as an ancient "tradition" and as eternally valid since "human rights" laid out. Everyone should have the right to cause any environmental damage, any leave too many children are chronically ill, any amount of valuable floor paved to permit it to the dogs - when the time is not brainwashing!