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Dutch Government Confirms Plan To Ban New Petrol, Diesel Cars By 2030 (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Today, the new Dutch government presented its detailed plan for the coming years and it includes making all new cars emission-free by 2030 -- virtually banning petrol- and diesel-powered cars in favor of battery-powered vehicles. The four coalition parties have been negotiating their plans since the election in March and now after over 200 days, they have finally released the plan they agreed upon. NL Times posted all the main points of the plan and in "transportation," it includes: By 2030 all cars in the Netherlands must be emission free. While some local publications are reporting "all cars," we are told that it would be for "all new cars" as it is the case for the countries with similar bans under consideration. The potential for the ban has been under consideration in the country since last year. The year 2025, like in Norway, has been mentioned, but they apparently decided for the less ambitious goal of 2030.
Coal, my friend. Clean American coal will power the cars of the future. Elon Musk is working on the Tesla Model C which will be coal fired.
Of course not.
They spend all their money on short term feel-good things, and therefore have no savings to be able to own property outside small inner city apartments, therefore they dont need a car to travel day to day.
Goods just magically turn up at their local bespoke coffee shop, organic market, and packages ordered from amazon appear at their door by magic.
They have no friends outside Facebook (and the coffee shop/political activist group), especially none far enough away to perhaps have different opinions, social circumstances, etc - that would be SO uncomfortable.
However they do sometimes get a nagging suspicion that perhaps other people are DIFFERENT, perhaps other people actually do MORE - the sooner that can be stamped out, the sooner they can not worry about that.
If I could buy a coal-fired car, I WOULD, just to piss off all the POMPOUS ASSHOLES in these electric car threads, that don't even own electric cars.
I'd gladly shovel that coal into the boiler myself with a ginormous shit eating grin on my face.
People have retrofit old carbureted cars to run on syngas driven by very rich burning wood fires. Very dirty and doable, so get off your ass.
You will have to figure out a way to routinely clean the intake and exhaust. Mostly intake. Keep it simple, you might be weekly soaking engine parts to keep it running.
The look on the pius drivers faces will make it worth it. When you jump out of the car at a red to feed the fire. Better still, hire a child to ride in the back as a stoker.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
It doesn't sounds to me like they're picking "winners."
The people with EV patents love retarded fucks like you.
"His name was James Damore."