EU suggests speed limit on Autobahn.

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=386632007

BERLIN (Reuters) - The EU's environment commissioner has called for a maximum speed limit on German highways to slow down the notoriously swift traffic on the car-loving nation's autobahns, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

"There are so many areas in which we senselessly waste energy and harm the climate," European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas was quoted as saying in an interview with Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

"One simple measure in Germany could be a uniform speed limit on the autobahns. Speed limits are very sensible for many reasons and completely normal in most EU countries and the United States. Only in Germany is it, oddly enough, a source of controversy," he said.

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However, German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee has so far rejected the idea.