France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: France's parliament has approved a law banning all exploration and production of oil and natural gas by 2040 within the country and its overseas territories. Under that law that passed a final vote on Tuesday, existing drilling permits will not be renewed and no new exploration licenses will be granted. The French government claims the ban is a world first. However, it is largely symbolic since oil and gas produced in France accounts for just 1 percent of domestic consumption. The rest is imported. French President Emmanuel Macron responded to the approval of the law on Twitter, saying in part: "Very proud that France has become the first country in the world today to ban any new oil exploration licenses with immediate effect and all oil extraction by 2040."

Comments

what form of government is this?

[iggymanz]

making completely symbolic bans that will not provide alternative energy, nor curtail use of fossil fuels in any way....is there a name for government by marketing shitheads?

Tartuferie

[manu0601]

This is very symbolic: french does not export much oil, and the law does not curb on oil importations.

A side note: France does not burn much oil because it uses a lot of nuclear power. However french cars still use fuel for the most of them.

Re: When the resource wars start

[dbialac]

Wait until they find out what plastic is made from.

Re: When the resource wars start

[b0s0z0ku]

Perfect excuse to reduce unnecessary use of plastic drastically.

Gas Production

[mentil]

In other news, gas produced by political windbags set to hold steady indefinitely.

Re:Not for long

[gravewax]

considering oil is currently a critically used and required resource how about it is fucking better to solve such reliance problems BEFORE banning its production. Not that this matters anyway as this is really just marketing as the timeline combined with the miniscule amount France produces means this will not have any impact on anything.

Sum total effect of this

[kenh]

However, it is largely symbolic since oil and gas produced in France accounts for just 1 percent of domestic consumption. The rest is imported.

The sum total effect of this is that France will go from importing 99% of it's oil and gas needs to 100%, big deal.

Re:They will riot anyways and repeal it

[kenh]

What are you talking about, they said they'd stop producing oil and gas, they never said they'd stop using oil and gas.

Re:Need hydrogen jet, not fuel cell

[CrimsonAvenger]

Even if you develop a hydrogen jet engine storing the fuel it needs is currently something we do not have the technology for since high pressure tanks are extremely heavy since they are metal and carbon fibre ones have far lower pressures

And yet...the Saturn V managed to store LH2 just fine. As did the Space Shuttle. And both of them flew....