[ThePadawan]

> If really this had been launched to "reduce the fuel usage of German citizens", they wouldn't have also reduced fuel taxes at the same time.

Not owning a car, it is my rough understanding that lowering the fuel tax just led to fuel distributors and gas stations keeping their prices the same to increase their profits.

So reducing the fuel tax was practically speaking a measure to subsidize oil companies, not humans, without realistically aiming to impact fuel usage.