Germany Looking To Go Emissions-Free By 2030
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No such thing as "peak oil." Every time some expert writes a book about the tipping point, a gigantic new reserve is discovered. Oil for many hundreds of years. But IF oil were to gradually dry up, then the problem would solve itself, as the price of that oil would gradually rise.
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........and that's not even talking about solar possibilities.
IMO, Germany and Europe need to adopt stricter diesel emissions policies ASAP.....TONS of diesels in use over there!
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Diesel cars may soon be banned in the city centres of large European cities, including Paris, London... Paris is already banning older (read dirtier emissions) vehicles from entering the city.
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Paris is already banning older (read dirtier emissions) vehicles from entering the city.
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.............yet these countries continue to subsidize diesel fuel with tax incentives? Doesn't make sense. ![Uhh...](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/1387914497.gif)
I don't think the French public will put up with a ban like that. Too many diesel-powered Renaults, Peugeots, and Citroens running around. And too many business in Paris would be affected.
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I don't think the French public will put up with a ban like that. Too many diesel-powered Renaults, Peugeots, and Citroens running around. And too many business in Paris would be affected.
I'm actually thankful for the EPA. We have clean, breathable air in this country thanks to them. Stupid European cities have a major smog problem because they subsidize diesel fuel for passenger cars.
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Cars in Paris are being labelled according to their year of manufacture and that is how they enforce the ban. Or they could impose a city-centre congestion fee, as London and Singapore have. These large city mayors have a lot of power and they are not afraid to use it.
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Yes, it does. It is the national governments that set lower taxes on diesel than gasoline. It is the cities -- a completely different level of government -- that are banning cars from city centres.
Cars in Paris are being labelled according to their year of manufacture and that is how they enforce the ban. Or they could impose a city-centre congestion fee, as London and Singapore have. These large city mayors have a lot of power and they are not afraid to use it.
Cars in Paris are being labelled according to their year of manufacture and that is how they enforce the ban. Or they could impose a city-centre congestion fee, as London and Singapore have. These large city mayors have a lot of power and they are not afraid to use it.
(I don't mean to take the thread too far off-topic into politics....just illustrating that there's a limit to what governments can do with bans, regulations, taxes, congestion fees, etc.....before the public rebels and they have to give an account of it).
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