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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.
for a ban on Germany by 2020.
Those at power always forget that the market takes care of most of the issues both real or bureaucrat invented. When humanity was switching from horses to ICE, there were no laws that would ban horses. Nowadays those laws would be invented for horses generate not exactly hygienic manure, tons of it, literally. Utilization of used and obsolete engines, horses, would be considered inhumane by today's standards. That being said, even the most authoritarian bureaucrats did not ban horses for all the flaws, for the emission of methane and relative impracticality.
The talks that some utilitarian technology, as ICE, needs to be banned only proves that the alternatives are not viable, and the open stated goal is, really, a population control with the baked in higher taxes.
One of the Brexit points was incandescent bulbs. At some point UK voters scratched their heads and decided that they do not need the bureaucrat what kind of bulb to use in their house.
Germany loves cars, it is, trully, a cradle of automobile production. Calls for the forceful ban of ICE, can accelerate GEREXIT at some point.
And a final point, that all the readers seem to be missing is related to the Military vehicles. When will we see solar energy powered armored personnel carriers, tanks, trucks? The country with battery or fuel cell powered army is very vulnerable.
Total ICE combustion ban, by law, is not going to happen.