MERKEL SEES END OF ROAD FOR DIESEL, GAS CARS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she thinks the internal combustion engines that are the mainstay of her country’s auto industry will eventually have to be phased out. Merkel told German weekly “Super Illu” that bans on new gas or diesel cars planned by other European countries are right in principle but declined to say if Germany should head in that direction and if so, when.