Top Gear
Posted on 07/25/2017 6:15:20 PM PDT by RightGeek
As part of a government strategy to improve air quality, Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health.
The commitment, which follows a similar pledge in France, is part of the government’s much-anticipated clean air plan, which has been at the heart of a protracted high court legal battle.
The government warned that the move, which will also take in hybrid vehicles, was needed because of the unnecessary and avoidable impact that poor air quality was having on people’s health. Ministers believe it poses the largest environment risk to public health in the UK, costing up to £2.7bn in lost productivity in one recent year.
Ministers have been urged to introduce charges for vehicles to enter a series of “clean air zones” (CAZ). However, the government only wants taxes to be considered as a final resort amid a backlash against any move that punishes motorists.
“Poor air quality is the biggest environmental risk to public health in the UK and this government is determined to take strong action in the shortest time possible,” a government spokesman said.
“That is why we are providing councils with new funding to accelerate development of local plans, as part of an ambitious £3bn programme to clean up dirty air around our roads.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
More fun if you fill a dumpster with them first...
Lol!
LoL! the answer to your question is “Yes...they are that stupid.”
Modern ICE-powered vehicles produce a tiny fraction of the actual pollutants, compared to cars of 30 years or so ago. Levels may be increasing — but, they’re doing so from a very small base (relative to the not-so-distant past).
I suspect that this is nothing more than a high-profile PR move. Most British ‘road trips’ are within the range of an EV. It would be much harder for continent-wide countries, such as the USA and Canada to make a ban on ICE work.
Lol paging kevmo
Moslems on the dole will probably collapse their economy before then anyway.
In 2008 around 180,000 people in the UK were directly employed in the UK automotive manufacturing sector.[131] In that year the sector had a turnover of £52.5 billion, generated £26.6 billion of exports and produced around 1.45 million passenger vehicles and 203,000 commercial vehicles.[131] The UK is a major centre for engine manufacturing, and in 2008 around 3.16 million engines were produced in the country.[131] —Wikipedia
The eco-weenies win another one.
Don’t tell me the London taxis are now little! You used to be able to dance in the back seat.
Islam will rule in Europe by then. Won’t matter.
dont wait!! ban them today!! do it for the children!!
Exactly! Especially after Richard Hammond got hurt in an electric!
http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a10005333/richard-hammond-not-seriously-injured-in-horrific-electric-supercar-crash/
and their new show “Grand Tour”....sorry not as good as “Top Gear” but maybe better in season 2:
Richard Hammond will probably crash his electric wheelchair....
I prefer to burn rubber when they’re still on the car. There’s something to be said about the pleasuring sound of chirping tires followed by the deep growl of an engine block.
Two things stand out....why are the EU regulations quoted as a threat, we are leaving and can make our own, 2nd Gove the minister was one of the few sane Pols, now he too has gone to the darkside.
Then of course the whole scheme relies on not yet created technology, as of now it is all based on pure Melon fantasy.....and this is from a Tory gu’mint....tk God I voted UKIP.
If I was still alive in 2040, I guess I would see carts pulled by oxen in England.
The real English people need to “drain the swamp” of the idiots in their Parliament!
I guess Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz will build 99.8% of their cars in the USA. If you ban gas and diesel, you will not be selling them in the USA.
Catalytic converters gave gotten much better. But they need to be replaced when no longer functioning properly.
Also, anyone know: does the UK have low sulfur diesel available for sale? Just the high stuff? If the UK just has the high sulfur stuff for sale, I can see why the latest gen catalytic converters might not be solving the problem for them. In which case, import the low sulfur stuff and/or replace the converters more often.
But bailing on diesel is nuts.
I’m doing my part with a big duramax that’s been deleted and tuned, it rolls coal all over and loud as hell heh. The leftards around here freak out.
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And now on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire where my
White-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground as the turbo slows
To cross the borderline
Run like the wind as excitement shivers
Up and down my spine
But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me
An old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new
Has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We'll fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge
Well-oiled leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide
Oh, I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase
Ride like the wind
Straining the limits
Of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside
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