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Diesel car ban in German cities


Nic Chase (NICO) - Shropshire & Mid-Wales AO

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3 hours ago, Dommo said:

Electric would probably work best...

You're right though - scale the electric cars up and it's a lot of electricity. If/when we go down that route the greenest electrical supplies won't be enough. We'll need trade offs in electrical generation vs ecological damage, such as tidal barriers or construction of nuclear plants.

Or the green lobby, on environmental grounds, lobby to ban all private transport on sustainability grounds and we all end up on an electric buses. 

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No point in us all getting worked up and excited about this . diesel, petrol ,  battery , nuclear , none will be any use soon , its a known fact that the end of the world is nigh,  

so make the best of it while you can :t-up:

We're all doomed anyway :oops:

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For a year they've been able to ban old diesels in Paris (Grenoble and Strasbourg are/were next with more to come) when it gets a bit polluted. 

Every car going into a controlled zone has to have a sticker (or be fined, even foreigners)  There are 5 categories depending on the age of the car's launch, so they can ban the oldest (presumed worst) polluters first.  Anything over 20 years old is stuffed.

Then there's the London Low Emission Zone.  Thin end of the wedge chaps

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1 hour ago, pistonbroke said:

 its a known fact that the end of the world is nigh,  

so make the best of it while you can :t-up:

We're all doomed anyway :oops:

Is there a date so I can plan financially?

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7 hours ago, pistonbroke said:

No point in us all getting worked up and excited about this . diesel, petrol ,  battery , nuclear , none will be any use soon , its a known fact that the end of the world is nigh,  

so make the best of it while you can :t-up:

We're all doomed anyway :oops:

 

5 hours ago, DonPeffers said:

Is there a date so I can plan financially?

 

Let's have a party, get paralytic, then who cares.

But don't drive, that would be naughty.

 

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18 hours ago, bollockybill said:

 

 

 

Let's have a party, get paralytic, then who cares.

But don't drive, that would be naughty.

 

Beware the ides :oops:

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So 15 March 2018 then; but 15 March 2017 was supposed to be the end after Trump was elected.

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