ACE calls toll drive forward Stuttgart (ACE) 21 August 2007 – The ACE Auto Club Europa has criticised the Baden-Wuerttemberg state government’s renewed drive towards the introduction of a passenger car toll as a “quiet drive”. ACE Chairman Wolfgang Rose said on Tuesday in Stuttgart: “The introduction of a passenger car toll can only be discussed on the basis of a coherent concept. However, there is nothing to be seen about it far and wide. In the current toll debate, it is not a large coalition of serious politicians that directs, but the duality of policy-makers prevails. On the one hand, it is not possible to use the car tax as an effective instrument for controlling climate change and on the other hand, it is not possible to use the car tax as an effective instrument for controlling climate change. On the other hand, they promise to eliminate additional tolls. This is a rather pervasive argument. Under these signs, the introduction of a car toll only amounts to additional toll for drivers. We don’t want that.” Quotation: “If politicians don’t go down in the summer hole, at least they go swimming with the toll.” (Rainer Hillgärtner, spokesman of the ACE Auto Club Europa, on which every year recurring debate about the Introduction of a car toll) Imprint: ACE Auto Club Europa Press and Public Relations Schmidener Straße 227 70374 Stuttgart Tel.: 0711/5303-266/277 Fax: 0711/5303-288 [email protected]