There should be speed limits but for the sake of safety and relaxed riding, just like in mostly any other country. Fuel saving is no good reason for a mandatory speed limit. Anyone who wants to save fuel by riding more slowly can do so, and many people do it already.
Great points, I found myself fully aligned with most of them. It often seems that politicians think about energy only in times of crisis, forgetting that Germany is, at its core, a manufacturing country.
On your last point, however, I am less aligned. Electric cars may well be the future, but we should not allow German and European manufacturers to be hollowed out while China takes over in the name of green policies. Recent wars and the US push for reindustrialisation have shown that the strength, and, unfortunately, even the survival, of a nation, or a group of nations, still depends on its ability to manufacture planes, ships, cars, drones, and weapons.
Oh, you _do_ want to bicker about it. So in Poland the speed limit is 140 in their A2, but everyone is doing about 180 km/h, on the way to German border. Then you cross into Germany, theoretically there is no speed limit, but everyone is going about 150 km/h.
Not the case in Denmark, where I sometimes drive. Most people stick to the 130 limit, which is just much less stressful than the pointless madness on German roads.
There should be speed limits but for the sake of safety and relaxed riding, just like in mostly any other country. Fuel saving is no good reason for a mandatory speed limit. Anyone who wants to save fuel by riding more slowly can do so, and many people do it already.
Definitely for relaxed driving. It's such a pleasure to cross the border to another country and experience a sane driving environment.
Great points, I found myself fully aligned with most of them. It often seems that politicians think about energy only in times of crisis, forgetting that Germany is, at its core, a manufacturing country.
On your last point, however, I am less aligned. Electric cars may well be the future, but we should not allow German and European manufacturers to be hollowed out while China takes over in the name of green policies. Recent wars and the US push for reindustrialisation have shown that the strength, and, unfortunately, even the survival, of a nation, or a group of nations, still depends on its ability to manufacture planes, ships, cars, drones, and weapons.
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It's tricky because if EVs really take off Germany will be stuck with dozens of obsolete products and suppliers.
Let's derail the conversation about energy policy to bickering about going fast on autobahn.
It's an easy way to save a bit of energy. Every other country has a speed limit. What's the point of not having one?
Oh, you _do_ want to bicker about it. So in Poland the speed limit is 140 in their A2, but everyone is doing about 180 km/h, on the way to German border. Then you cross into Germany, theoretically there is no speed limit, but everyone is going about 150 km/h.
Not the case in Denmark, where I sometimes drive. Most people stick to the 130 limit, which is just much less stressful than the pointless madness on German roads.