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Transportation Toll: German Government To Further Drive Inflation
by Markus Schlegel | January 1, 2008 at 05:00 am | 557 views | 5 comments
Germany's ecochampion government is set to take inflation one step further as plans emerge to heighten toll collection for trucks by up to 120 per cent, beginning 2008.
In practise, this could mean that prices move up to some 30 Euro cent per kilometer of road usage, driving up costs per tonne on the 775 kilometer long route Munich Hamburg by about 5 Euros.
The news comes on top of 2007's bad news for consumers which has seen prices for basic nutrition such as milk and bread move up by as much as 20 per cent.
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January 1, 2008 at 05:00 am by Markus Schlegel, 557 views, 5 comments
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at 09:30 on January 1st, 2008
Markus, this is a very interesting story, do you have a link to the source? If you install our highlight tool to firefox or IE, you can easily select text from any story, click the nowpublic button and it will automatically quote from the page and add a link.
Let me know if you need a hand with anything!
at 10:09 on January 1st, 2008
Markus Schlegel, good stuff. Is it still true that German farmers pay some of the highest transportation costs in the EU?
Why are they raising toll collection by 120 percent? A few years ago, when they upped taxes on big trucks on the Autobahns, carriers simply used lighter-weight trucks and other roads, right? So is this increase a reaction to that, or a way to try and get more monies to work on roads, or what is the rationale?
In the U.S. highway improvements and road taxes of various sorts can be very hot issues. Along with the price of bread and milk! I never thought we'd be routinely paying well over $2.00 for a loaf of bread and sometimes more than $3.00. Milk prices seem to have gone back down a bit, at least locally. But at one point, in some places a gallon of milk cost double what a gallon of gas cost.
at 10:17 on January 1st, 2008
p.s. so does this mean that the increased costs for transport are going to increase the costs of those wonderful German white wines? BTW, do you have any recommendations or sources for wineries? Like, hmmmm, a nice Mosel Riesling? Uh oh--it's only 8:24 a.m. But I've been up since 4:30 a.m so does that make this lunchtime? ;}
at 16:19 on January 1st, 2008
Hello folks,
I am currently a bit limited as I work with Opera and an HTC Hermes PDA, and some parts of NP are simply too sophisticated for that.
www.spiegel.de ran the story in German, original source were Lübecker Nachrichten.
I think the Government rationale simply is to get what they can in taxation, as long as they label it a climate protection measure. This country is in true CO2 hysteria so you can sell any hike under this label.
The big secret in pectore to me seems, how is higher taxation going to make anything environmentally sound if the German industry, indulged by lackluster guidelined from government, have procrastinated to make technologies available to the transportation business?
at 16:54 on January 1st, 2008
That's great Markus, makes sense they'd try and make some cash off of it.
I had the same issue when posting stories from work and wasn't allowed to install *anything* on the system.