Merkel pledges billion euros to help German cities fight pollution from diesel cars 

Frau Merkel could have saved €1BILLION if she hadn’t yielded to the Greenpeace wing of government who forced her to jettison CO2-free nuclear energy, in the wake of Fukushima.

She could have used nukes to save Energiewende too, and not had to call on the beautiful black (or brown) rock for energy reality!

Got ya’self in a real tangle there Angela.

Ouch.

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The campaign to demonise diesel cars – above all other causes of city air pollution – rumbles on, as The Local reports. The conundrum being of course that Germany makes vast sums from sales of diesel cars, trucks, buses etc. As usual climate is wrongly conflated with air quality issues.

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday pledged a billion euros to help German cities fight air pollution caused by dirty diesel cars, as a scandal strangling the automobile industry threatened to engulf politicians at the height of the election campaign.

Merkel said she was doubling financial aid to cities from a previously announced €500 million, in a bid to stave off the threat of an all-out ban against diesel vehicles.

The public health threat posed by nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions came to the fore after Germany’s biggest carmaker Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 to fitting millions of cars worldwide with…

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