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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.

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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 realDonaldTrump on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:32PM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:32PM (#825782) Homepage Journal

    You forgot Clean Coal. Australia is fortunate to have some of the World's cleanest Coal. But, they don't have a lot of Oil. They've been getting it from Iran and a lot of countries that aren't very nice. But they came to their senses. They said, let's create many new jobs in our magnificent Coal Mines. Not in Middle East!!!!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Monday April 08 2019, @04:29AM

    by Mykl (1112) on Monday April 08 2019, @04:29AM (#826072)

    Not sure where you heard that, but Victoria (the South-East state on the Australian mainland) is primarily powered by brown coal, which is as dirty as it comes. Huge health problems for towns in the main coal mining and power generating areas. They're trying to wean themselves off it at the moment.