Automobile Industry: Cars in Inner Cities: Urban Planning in Europe vs. the USA

See the New York Times debate on discouraging cars in inner cities at Car Clash: Europe vs. the U.S.

Germany Adopts Laws to End Nuclear Power Era by 2022

The German Spiegel Online News writes in A Revolution for Renewables: Germany Approves End to the Nuclear Era that:

"Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag, passed a historic package of laws Thursday that commits the nation -- once and for all -- to a phase-out of nuclear power by 2022."

Germany in previous years has already taken great strides in shifting to renewable energies and e.g. massively subsidizing modern heating and insulation installations, so the German move is not surprising as such.

It remains to be seen whether a highly industrialized Germany will be able to rely solely on alternative energies and to keep from buying nuclear power from other countries if energy shortfalls occur.