With the change in SPD Party leadership here in Germany in the past couple of weeks....a strong hint was put forward by the new leadership....that the party needs to push for higher C02 taxes.
ZDF (German public TV, Channel Two) went out and polled the German public on this question.
The idea is that you'd tack on additional taxes to gas and diesel to achieve the right numbers....in simple terms, you'd convince people of the pain to be suffered with each tank of fuel.
59-percent of the public said they didn't want any additional taxes put upon fuel. Only 38-percent said 'sure'.
Seventy-percent of those polled said skepticism was a big issue, and doubted that the public would buy into the behavior change required.
The odds that this C02 tax will occur? Presently, with the Merkel coalition? I'd give it very low odds. Maybe after 2021, with a Green Party Chancellor.....it might happen. But as the poll kinda hinted....little will occur in terms of behavioral activity changing.
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