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Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars

posted by martyb on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gotta-ban-them-all dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

An Australian Parliamentary committee has recommended that petrol and diesel cars be phased out in favour of electric vehicles in a report. This is not yet law but shows that the government is serious about reducing the dependency Australia has on oil and reducing greenhouse emissions.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:14AM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:14AM (#825641) Journal

    Mandate the creation of the necessary infrastructure first. All this does otherwise is choke off the country's transportation, which does about the same thing to the body politic as claudication of the blood vessels does to a single body.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:25AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:25AM (#825643)

    No, no, let them go right on ahead. We need modern case studies on how a civilization dies. I don't wish Australia any ill, but if they're volunteering to take one for the team, let them. I'd rather watch a country other than my own kill itself first.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:51AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @04:51AM (#825651)

      History already shows us this. Look at India [wikipedia.org] as a good example.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:02PM (2 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:02PM (#825795) Journal
        Apparently, we need more examples. So... do it hurt when I do that?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @09:35PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @09:35PM (#825943)

          Your current attempts to bring down the USA do hurt yes. Please stop oh shill for the lizard people.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 07 2019, @10:13PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 07 2019, @10:13PM (#825966) Journal
            Having an opinion on the internet hurts people? Do tell. So how does that hurt?