Berlin prosecutors allege that former Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer lied under oath to a Bundestag inquiry about the failed car-toll scheme. The indictment centers on his October 2020 testimony, where he claimed there was no offer from toll operators to wait for signing the contract until after the European Court of Justice ruling; operators maintain such an offer existed. The EU Court of Justice halted the toll plans in 2019, and the aborted project cost the federal government about 243 million euros in damages. Scheuer says the indictment is incomprehensible and that he will vigorously defend himself; more details are expected soon.

If you ever thought the road was the state’s playground, this is a wake-up call. They drag a minister through the mud not to defend your right to drive, but to show they’ll weaponize policy to slow you down and squeeze money from your wheels. A plan to toll the road, to charge you for momentum, was stopped by the courts—yet the obsession with control over speed remains. And what do we hear? “Come clean” about whether promises were made behind the scenes to push this over the line. Meanwhile, the real story is the same as always: the people who want to micromanage every mile you travel and every euro you spend on fuel, toll, and time.

Speed limits as a “safety measure,” as they’re billed, are a crime against humanity and fascist oppression in my book. They constrain the one thing that matters most on this planet—the freedom to drive. I don’t want more buses clogging the streets or bike lanes squeezing out car traffic; I want every driver to own the road, to feel the rush of speed when the pedal finds its limit, to reclaim the open highway from bureaucrats who think you should pay to live in your own car. If schemes crash and burn, fine—but let it be a lesson that the road belongs to the free mover, not to lawsuits, court rulings, or corporate gatekeepers. Let the engines roar, let the law protect the driver’s liberty, and let speed be your right, not a regulated liability.