EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

The Telegraph ^ | 28 mar 2011 | Bruno Waterfield,

[mandaladon]

This is something our sick liberal activists will probably start promoting in the USA.

[Red Badger]

They won’t have to ban them, there won’t be any left to ban.............

[RC2]

I have doubts that the EU will be around by 2050. It’s basically a dictatorship.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Teenager overhead at a Starbucks in 2049, "What's a car?"

[Trod Upon]

Question: Will there be any Europeans in European cities in 2050?

[steveyp]

They’ll be able to move the 40 or 8s around on the rail lines if there is any liberty minded individuals left in Europe in that timeframe.

[Sprite518]

Remeber this applies ONLY to the little people. Heads of States, elitist, can continue on...

Remember they never practice what they preach..

[wolfman23601]

So what happens when I land in Heathrow? I then rent a horse?

[Buckeye McFrog]

more likely they will be laughed out of existence long before 2050

[Lazamataz]

The Soviet Union never died.

It just changed names.

[Gaffer]

The only ‘cars’ that will be allowed are beat up Mercedes, and Toyata pickups. One for kidnappings and the other for carrying Katushas, RPGs, recoiless rifles, 50 cals, and mortar tubes. Toyota-Mercs! When you absolutely gotta attack an infidel in a hurry!

[Politicalmom]

Great tagline. I’m stealing it. :)

[Mr. K]

We will all be flying rainbow-crapping unicorns by then, so don’t worry.

[FlyingEagle]

Muslims are used to donkey carts in their cities. Thats what they will be using.

[Billthedrill]

Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, insisted that Brussels directives and new taxation of fuel would be used to force people out of their cars...

The key word being "force." The very ugliest aspect of the evangelical Green movement is its totalitarianism. BTT.

[Marty62]

Well well, EU heading back to the dark ages. Figures.

[HKMk23]

Ahh, yes — the great socialist solution to everything:

Step 1: Kick yourself in the nuts.

Step 2: Results satisfactory, Yes/No?

Step 3: If No, repeat Steps 1 and 2, but harder.

There is no Step 4, because the Step 2 will always return "No" triggering continuous recursion that ends only in the death of the subject; be it an individual, a government, or an entire society.

[drbuzzard]

Actually what I found ironic was that the EU recently effectively put in CAFE standards under the rubric of carbon emissions controls. They talked about this on Top Gear, so all the big supercar/ultra-luxury car makers (Bentley, Austen Martin, etc) have been forced to start making econo box crap cars to sell in addition to their normal ultra cars just to get past the EU rules.

This is such an example of of power hungry scum running a system. Any fool taking a look at things would realize that CAFE standards have been a miserable failure here, and that in fact that European system of high gas taxes has always been a much better approach to increasing average fuel economy (people use less gas when it costs more, this isn’t rocket science). However those EU bureaucrats have decided that they don’t have enough control I suppose, because there is no way any rational person can assume the small handfuls of $250k+ cars out there put out any appreciable amount of emissions. I don’t care if they get only 5 MPG, there’s only hundreds sold in a given year.

[andy58-in-nh]

Muslim, anarchist, and communist yutes will have burned them all long before 2050.

[from occupied ga]

Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 year. The European Commission on Monday unveiled a "single European transport area" aimed at enforcing "a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers" by 2050. The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail.

This is something our sick liberal activists will probably start promoting in the USA.

Already started. Why do you think 0 and his accomplices are pushing rail where it makes no sense to do so (I know, other than to buy votes with taxpayer money I mean) Why do you think the TSA gets more and more intrusive, but not more effective every day?