Sunday melancholia on the German autobahns.
For one day, roads remained useless
across the landscape.
On the second car-free Sunday,
the streets were emptier than during the first driving ban.
Authorities had set stricter rules
for giving out driving permits.
The police announced tougher controls.
1600 drivers went for a ride to the countryside without a permit
and were fined at least 500 marks.
Pedestrians occupy the cities' main streets.
But snow and rain meant that most FRG citizens
couldn't experience an environmentally friendly journey in a car-free city.
Those who couldn't leave the car at home on this day
found ways of circumventing the driving ban.
In the parliament, the government and opposition
stated their position on the consequences of the oil embargo.
I'd like to add a critical word.
I have to conclude that we will offer resistance,
should there be attempts
to alleviate and correct the consequences
of long-term shortcomings and recent events,
not with informed solutions,
but by wanting to change
economic and social systems through these means.
By putting the mining industry under state control,
we would certainly achieve
an unemployment rate close to a million for an indefinite period.
It is not unlikely...
that the rate of economic growth in the coming year,
as predicted by us and the experts,
will not be the plus 3 points,
but will drop towards zero.
And that a change in price tendency
will be even harder to achieve than in the past.
In all sincerity,
not everyone will be able to keep their job in this situation.
But together with the economy, we will make every effort
to provide a job to everyone.
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