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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @01:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @01:17PM (#825765)

    Seems a bad idea for a country with dangerously hostile tracts of land, hundreds of miles apart from each other where if you run out of battery power, you wouldn't be able to recharge before you died, especially overnight.

    This is why I would recommend an amendment to this legislation that turns people's hardship and suffering while traveling into reality TV. Drones can scour the roads for "stars" and hover while nature takes its course. "Tune in tonight because you never know what will happen. But we know it will be bad."

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