Posted on 07/06/2017 9:59:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
France’s swashbuckling TV star turned environment minister Nicolas Hulot laid out France’s new “climate plan” intended to meet the ambitious targets of the Paris climate accord on Thursday and become carbon neutral by 2050. […]
“We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040,” Hulot said, calling it a “veritable revolution”.
“The solutions are there,” Hulot said. “Our own manufacturers have what they need to support this promise”, adding that it all contributed to the “public health agenda”.
Acknowledging that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for automakers, Hulot said that France’s car industry was well equipped to make the switch. […]
… Hulot also said he would end all new exploitation of oil and gas reserves in France, for which a law will be put through parliament in the autumn. He vowed to end all use of fossil fuels by 2040. …
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The French & German’s have a long love affair with battery powered toys...
what becomes of:
Airbus
Air France
Agricultural equipment
Petrochemical Industry
French military aviation and weapons system sales...solar powered tanks?
All downstream industries related to IC engines
etc.
Hulot must surely be a graduate of the prestigious École Polytechnique, their bureaucrat factory.
Yes, there will of course be exemptions for those animals that are "more equal" than the others.
A disaster. They should be trying to bring back jobs.
France, working hard to become the world’s biggest amusement park.
How do they expect muslim youths to start fires in the streets without ready acess to gasoline?!?!
Bunch of racists.
Those are all halal.
Those left alive will be so busy praying five times a day at Hagia Maria and listening for the "most beautiful sound on earth" to tell them when to remember anything.
Go ahead...but what about marine engines? I want to go water skiing with a 400 horsepower outboard not an solar powered motor...
Walking is fun and good for you.
By 2040, Continental Europe will be semi-arid and the camel will be the prevalent mode of transportation. Its dried dung will fuel dwelling furnaces and campfires. Solar cells will power the amplifiers used to call all its citizens to worship five times per day.
By 2040, Continental Europe will be semi-arid and the camel will be the prevalent mode of transportation. Its dried dung will fuel dwelling furnaces and campfires. Solar cells will power the amplifiers used to call all its citizens to worship five times per day.
Great news for Boeing, Airbus not so much.
I was wondering where all of those non-“fossil”-fuel airplanes and ships were going to come from, myself.
Gee, I thought you forgot the sarcasm tag...
Solar powered planes are just around the corner...
How do your suppose one takes a long distance trip?
Its not like one can stop and charge their car battery in 10 minutes...
What dolts.
Sure can’t wait for those solar-powered spacecrafts that will accelerate us to escape velocity . . . (how?)
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