Posted on 01/16/2017 10:36:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
Beginning on Tuesday, diesel vehicles will be banned from driving on Oslo streets because of acute levels of dangerous air pollution.
On both Monday and Tuesday, weather forecasts call for cold weather and very little wind, conditions likely to cause high levels of exhaust pollution over large areas of the city.
Therefore the City of Oslo will for the first time ever implement a ban on diesel vehicles on municipal roads. On Tuesday, the ban will be in effect from 6am to 10pm. It will remain in effect during those same hours for as long as air pollution levels are determined to be at dangerous levels. […]
The city council’s environment commissioner, Lan Marie Berg of the Green Party, said the most important thing for her is to take care of citizens’ health. …
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The Green Party. That explains everything. Next: Ban all internal combustion engines and revert to horses, oxen and handcarts.
Maybe Obama will pick this up and make the banishment of diesel engines the final edict of his reign.
In that case, I hope that Trump not only lifts the restrictions on diesels, but also eases things to the point where two-stroke diesels become commonplace again.
A while ago there was a report that the number 1 selling vehicle in Norway was the Tesla. They will have some vehicles to roll in.
Bicycles, only bicycles...
The Tessa is not the number one selling vehicle in Norway, probably Skoda is. But I believe Norway buys more Teslas then any other country.
I remember a news article a few years ago that oxen were making at least a small comeback in England due to idiotic government policies and insane taxes on IC engines.
Maybe the Norge women will pull plows.
Horse manure is really bad for the air.
Nothing better than the sound of a Detroit Diesel-especially an unmuffled one!!!!!
Kewel...
Haha. A long time ago Europe decided to push diesel as a way to save the environment. There are shitty little diesel cars all over England that run like shit and sound like shit. But everyone had to buy them because gasoline is so highly taxed as to make it prohibitive to buy. Now, just like everything else the stupid liberals touch, this one comes back to bite them. I love it every time this happens.
I absolutely hate the smell of diesels.....There were plenty of times driving up and down I-575 to and from work where I’d come up on a stretch of road and smell that stink hundreds of yards behind one. I’d hate to be on a road with one that hundreds of them on it.
Two stroke diesel?
The sound of a Detroit was a very unique sound coming from a big truck.
They had them in pickups too. Also, used to be that just about every bus you’d pass on the street or highway had a 6V71 or even an 8V71, especially after Mack left the bus business.
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