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Sebastian Vettel (left)

Sebastian Vettel, the ecologist

It is curious that someone like Sebastian Vettel, who in his workplace spends his life at over 300 km/h, goes public to fight for an imposition of the speed limit on the highway. This is in Germany, a country that prides itself on allowing drivers to move in some places – with less traffic and less winding – at the speed that their vehicles can reach, or that their conscience and common sense advise. But that is exactly what the Aston Martin driver in F1 stands for. The existence or not of a speed limit is a recurrent theme in Germany, with the manufacturers of the most powerful vehicles intending to maintain this situation, with which many of their customers agree. They argue that there are no more accidents, no more deaths, on the stretches without speed limits. But now the argument in favor of the limit is different.

Supporter of the German party Os Verdes, which won 14.8% of the votes in the elections, Vettel is apologist that the high speed on the highway will not contribute to the reduction of accidents, but it definitely causes greater fuel consumption, which by table implies an increase in emissions. The German pilot even claims that establishing a speed limit would help reduce the emission of two million tons into the atmosphere.

Seeming to ignore that the sport he practices incites the cult of speed among his fans, Vettel suggests that a driver does not feel freer when traveling on German unlimited motorways than on similar roads in Turkey, the USA or the UK , countries where these limits are imposed.

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