Audi CEO Markus Duesmann has come out as a friend of government-mandated fuel savings through car-free days.
In a newspaper interview, he pleads for driving bans like in the oil crisis of the 1970s in order to "better prepare us in Germany" for the need to save money.
If it's a Sunday, he'll ride his racing bike across the closed highway, he reveals.
The fact that a VW top man with a green soul is tooting the same horn as EU Commission President von der Leyen or the Greenpeace lobbyists does not make the proposal any better.
Most citizens really don't have to get in the mood to save energy anymore, the rising prices are already taking care of that.
Also astonishing is Duesmann's assumption that people just walk around on Sundays for fun.
He shouldn't infer others from himself.
The modern work rhythm is too varied to decree downtime on an arbitrarily fixed day of the week.
The auto industry is welcome to build more economical cars, but it is not needed as the guardian of motorists.