This Chatter Over Limiting Sunday Driving?

 For about three weeks, there's been continual Green Party chatter in Germany over saving energy, and one of the dozen things openly discussed now.....is having a no-drive Sunday (like it was done in the 1970s during the oil crisis period).  Adding to this....the speed limit thing came up again. 

Where this might lead onto?  The federal government (composed of the SPD, Greens, and FDP Party)....would pass enough legislation to do 'something'.

I looked at the idea of a no-drive Sunday, and question the value.  If you asked me personally.....the wife and I might drive out and about on twenty of the fifty-two Sundays out of a year.  Looking around at the neighbors....most of them fall into the same category.  

If you asked a majority of Germans that do travel on a Sunday....I doubt if they go further fifty to seven kilometers on that one Sunday drive.  

Now, from early June to the end of August....a fair number of Germans are going off on their typical summer vacation....lugging the bags, or some RV trailer to some destination.  The closer you get to that summer period....the less agreeable people will be in cooperating on the Sunday ban.  

But this also brings us to discuss the difference between 1973 and 2022.  

A lot of vehicles in 1973 weren't made for great gas mileage.  Today?  The Wife's Audi TT (12 years old) gets roughly 24 mpg (city driving) or 31 mpg (open road driving).  In the German numbers estimation....roughly 6.9 liters per 100 kilometers.  

I will admit some of the newer vehicles (lower horsepower) will get closer to 35 to 40 mpg, but some of this discussion goes to just better ways of driving....lower accelerating....something that no one thought much about in 1973.

The more this Sunday chatter goes on....the less acceptance that I see from the general public.  You have to add into the whole 'equation'.....Covid has finally come to an end, and people are ready to live in a world with recreation and 'fun'.  Suggesting that the national goal is to save 8 to 12 liters of fuel on a Sunday drive....is not going  to be easily accepted. 

Adding to the argument....what do you tell the folks who have E-cars?  

It's a weird discussion....with various implications.