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France's new 'climate plan': Sales of petrol and diesel vehicles to end by 2040
TheLocal.fr ^ | 6 July 2017 14:56 CEST+02:00 | The Local/AFP

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: automobileindustry; climatechangehoax; eussr; france; globalwarminghoax; hulot; internalcombustion; parisaccords
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The French & German’s have a long love affair with battery powered toys...


21 posted on 07/07/2017 2:34:15 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Olog-hai
....He vowed to end all use of fossil fuels by 2040.

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.

22 posted on 07/07/2017 2:50:25 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
.it will be very tough for the people who have these rules imposed upon them...not for those of us who make the rules.

Yes, there will of course be exemptions for those animals that are "more equal" than the others.

23 posted on 07/07/2017 3:46:48 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: Olog-hai

A disaster. They should be trying to bring back jobs.


24 posted on 07/07/2017 4:11:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting constantly in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: Olog-hai

France, working hard to become the world’s biggest amusement park.


25 posted on 07/07/2017 4:30:53 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Olog-hai

How do they expect muslim youths to start fires in the streets without ready acess to gasoline?!?!
Bunch of racists.


26 posted on 07/07/2017 4:35:10 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
But those left alive in 2041 can still remember them by eating French fries, French bread, and French toast

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.

27 posted on 07/07/2017 4:38:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Olog-hai

Go ahead...but what about marine engines? I want to go water skiing with a 400 horsepower outboard not an solar powered motor...


28 posted on 07/07/2017 5:25:30 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Olog-hai

Walking is fun and good for you.


29 posted on 07/07/2017 6:05:31 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Olog-hai

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.


30 posted on 07/07/2017 6:09:16 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: VietVet876

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.


Camels for muslims only. Infidels restricted to donkeys.


31 posted on 07/07/2017 6:13:07 AM PDT by samtheman (The Germans -- having failed twice -- have finally hit on a way to destroy Europe.)
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To: Olog-hai
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."

Great news for Boeing, Airbus not so much.

32 posted on 07/07/2017 6:17:37 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: jpsb

I was wondering where all of those non-“fossil”-fuel airplanes and ships were going to come from, myself.


33 posted on 07/07/2017 8:34:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: pennyfarmer

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...


34 posted on 07/07/2017 8:45:50 AM PDT by Popman
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To: Olog-hai

What dolts.


35 posted on 07/07/2017 5:28:39 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Popman

Sure can’t wait for those solar-powered spacecrafts that will accelerate us to escape velocity . . . (how?)


36 posted on 07/07/2017 6:14:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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