Car-crazy Germany plans tax relief for 'green' automobiles

October 30, 2008 Traffic makes its way down Berlin's Friedrichstrasse

The German government said on Thursday it planned to eliminate taxes on new cars with low greenhouse gas emissions for the first two years of ownership, but environmentalists said the scheme would backfire. "We want to introduce an automobile tax exemption for cars that are particularly clean," Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, seen here in July 2008, told ARD public television.

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