Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com)

Germany gave the world the internal combustion engine, and now it is prepping to ban the amazing invention in the country. The country's federal council has passed a resolution to ban the ICE starting in 2030. From an Engadget report:The country's Bundesrat (federal council) has passed a resolution calling for a ban on new internal combustion engine cars by 2030. From then on, you'd have to buy a zero-emissions vehicle, whether it's electric or running on a hydrogen fuel cell. This isn't legally binding, but the Bundesrat is asking the European Commission to implement the ban across the European Union... and when German regulations tend to shape EU policy, there's a chance that might happen. The council also wants the European Commission to review its taxation policies and their effect on the "stimulation of emission-free mobility." Just what that means isn't clear. It could involve stronger tax incentives for buying zero-emissions cars, but it could also involve eliminating tax breaks for diesel cars in EU states. Automakers are already worried that tougher emission standards could kill diesels -- remove the low cost of ownership and it'd only hasten their demise.

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Re:I call

[umghhh]

Germany is being in a process of violent islamisation, a process led by current gov. They open borders policy will destroy German social systems even earlier than the original demographics would have done. So looking at this I rest with ease. Besides they will to come up with solutions to some problems first or the law will never be effective - fast charging/swap of batteries. Besides even if the proposal becomes a law and there will be no legal possibility to register a car with combustion engine then - this will apply to new vehicles. As said Germany thus me will have whole bunch of other problems by then but I still wonder where all these batteries are going to come from and what the green party members will say to environmental disaster that production and later disposal of all these batteries will cause. Plus they will still have to use some combustible material to produce electricity fed to these batteries. The way things are in Germany building of new power plants based on coal or oil is all but blocked by Greens. The side effect of that is that instead of having modern power plants with lesser env. footprint we have old power plants with old dirty and less effective technology. I am actually for some of the goals of Green party but I do not think any of these morons think their proposals through.

Re: What a joke

[ChrisMaple]

Hillary is a lot closer to Hitler than Trump. She promotes "government-business partnerships" - that's Fascism. She's an accessory before and after the fact to murder. The main similarity of Hitler to Trump is that they're both nationalists.