Banning Petrol Cars by 2040?

[Kwackerz]

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/08/30 ... s-by-2040/

Hmm..

Chris says there is precedence for such a change occurring in that time period. The switch from steam engines to internal combustion engines happened in the same time. Lib Dems have other ideas for dealing with climate change like more taxes.

Some of the comments listed raise further question as to whether it really will make a difference.

Here's a link with reference to one of them

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shephe ... g-culprits

[lazarus]

The standard "anti" response is to say "there's no point in us doing anything because there's someone else who is making 10 times as much CO2 as we are". Or to put it another way - when the other 59 million people in the UK give up burning fossil fuels then I will consider it too.

But the thing that really gets me is the technical illiteracy of many of the pundits offering alternatives. For example, the electric car. Where do they think the car gets its leccy from, particularly since nuclear is unfashionable, and wind farms unpopular.? From coal and gas fired power stations of course. And they emit CO2.
We get cr*p about fuel cells that work by combining hydrogen and oxygen. How doi they think that these two gasses are produced? All the energy that hydrogen gives up in a fuel cell has to be used in the first place to produce it. And who says that trains produce lerss CO2 per passenger mile because they certainly dont do so. Whilst plaves actually do produce no more per passenger mile than a full car does