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general, attitudes towards car tax reform as an environmental policy measure were positive. Also criticalviews were expressed, but generally car tax reform was considered as an effective measure to solveenvironmental problems caused by transport.Figure 2.Number of articles per newspaper section (left panel) and attitudes towards car taxreform as an environmental policy measure in different newspaper sections (rightpanel).The EPP-framework distinguishes between human environment and ecological environment as twofunctionally different but interacting major systems (Figure 3). In this study, the results indicate thatsocietal factors, actions, emissions (i.e. outputs), targets, measures and potential side-effects dominatedthe discussion of the car tax reform. Thus, the discussion circulated largely around human environment,while issues of ecological environment (e.g. climate change) were only rarely mentioned.Attitudes towards targets of the car tax reform were mainly positive (Figure 4). Also otherenvironmental policy measures gained several positive mentions. Fuel tax induced a lively debate and itwas often considered as a potential substitutive measure to the car tax reform. The fuel tax wasconsidered more equal and more efficient policy measure.462