http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40518293
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:38AM
That must be who's pumping out the most propaganda on this wedge issue then. The one thing that infuriates me about conservatives is how uncritically they lap up corporate propaganda. People in the "political liberal" tribe seem to be swayed by it now and then, depending on the issue, but not nearly as much as conservatives are.
(It would truly impress me to meet somebody who isn't swayed by it at all.)
All the social wedge issues are nothing more than corporate propaganda. They are truly inconsequential other than to act as a lens for the new, improved aristocracy, the corporate class, to focus all attention on, distracting away from the more ineffable things that really matter.