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France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a "revolution".
Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal.
He said France planned to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Hybrid cars make up about 3.5% of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for just 1.2%.
It is not yet clear what will happen to existing fossil fuel vehicles still in use in 2040.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @06:48PM (3 children)
It must be the case that society leads government.
It doesn't get much more worthless than the proclamations of a bureaucrat who will have long departed office when the Ban Hammer is supposed to drop.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @07:22PM (1 child)
Spoken like an idiot who has never lived through a war. Society doesn't lead, dumbass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:51AM
And, in doing so, they destroy society.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday July 07 2017, @07:23PM
> It doesn't get much more worthless than the proclamations of a bureaucrat who will have long departed office when the Ban Hammer is supposed to drop.
Indeed, it is what makes proclemations like this so good,
1) You look good to the current eco-warriors , which is in tune with the Paris agreement, especially as it was shaken a bit by the USA pulling out
2) You make it really vague (Ban the sale of liquid fueled cars? All of them? Or just the sale of new cars? What about people buying cars in other EU countries and bringing them in?). Does that count for cars that are carbon neutral burners? (i.e. run a closed carbon fuel cycle, like bio-ethanol, of which France is a pioneer of in Europe already).
3) You put the date so far out, that the current government will be long gone, they themselves will already be enjoying their fat pension, and and if it doesn't happen, all you can say is "we were misguided, sorry". If it does happen, it would be due to tech improvements rather than a ban.
Back when the motor car came onto the market, It wasn't like the government had to ban horses to get people to use the motor car, it was so obviously better than the alternatives. It just happened as the benefits and technology improved. Indeed the first cars were basically novelties for rich people. They couldn't carry much, and they were not that fast, especially compared to long established horses. Not unlike modern battery electrics, but time and tech refinements made them the rational choice for people to switch, and switch they did.