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Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: 2030 seems like a long way off, but it's really just around the corner. And when the bell tolls at midnight on December 31, 2030, you may not be able to buy a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle in Israel. After that date, all passenger cars will be electric and all trucks will be powered by electricity or compressed natural gas, if a proposal currently under consideration gets approved by the government. A final decision is expected by the end of this year. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz [told Reuters last month] the biggest challenge will be creating a "critical mass" of electric and CNG powered vehicles before the deadline arrives. "We are already encouraging [the transition] by funding ... more than 2,000 new charging stations around the country," he says. The plan was set in motion one day after the United Nations issued its latest climate assessment that finds nations must do far more than they are currently doing in order to stave off warmer global average temperatures that will put the environment at risk. In order to reach the goal, the Israeli government will "reduce taxation on electric cars to almost zero, so they are going to be much cheaper," Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said. He expects there will be about 177,000 electric cars on Israeli roads around 2025. By 2030, the expectation is that there will be nearly 1.5 million EVs in the country. The country has a ways to go though, as there are less than 100 electric cars on the roads today.

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  1. Re:Hitlery H. Hamas by SIEG++HEIL · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  2. Re:The poor get screwed by blindseer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As usual, the poor get poorer so the rich (GM/Tesla/Whoever's making EVs in Israel) can get richer.

    The poor get poorer because of bad choices. The rich get richer because of good choices. There's good data on this.

    One such example are that the people that buy a lot of expensive shoes are not the wealthy, it's the people that want to look wealthy. The people that save up for a pair of practical shoes tend to be able to figure out how to save in other ways. The people that buy expensive consumable items, like shoes generally are, will have a harder time getting rich.

    I've heard the phrase that the poor are poor because they chose poverty. That might be simplifying it a bit too much. I'm thinking that it's more like the poor are poor because they made poor choices. In a free nation there is often very little keeping someone from attaining wealth. There's simply things that people don't choose that can bring a person to poverty but this is not the rule, only the exception.

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    I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.