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It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
Electrek ^ | Feb 2 2024 - 1:44 pm PT | Jo Borrás

Posted on 02/03/2024 10:41:19 AM PST by cba123

Last February, the European Union approved a law that would ban the sale of combustion engine cars in its member states from 2035 — joining several US states, Canada, Japan, Singapore, India, New Zealand, and a number of other nations with similar bans already on the books (see chart, below). Ethiopia, however, isn’t waiting for 2035.

Ethiopia is trying to ban ICE vehicles now.

According to a news update from the parliament, Alemu Sime, the Ethiopian Minister for Transport and Logistics, announced the completion of the nations Logistics Master Plan Monday. Details were scarce, but he has announced that, “a decision has been made, that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia unless they are electric ones.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automotive; ethiopia
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Well, well, well.

Ethiopia, blazing a new trail for humanity?

1 posted on 02/03/2024 10:41:19 AM PST by cba123
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Ethiopia has cars? What’s next, food?


2 posted on 02/03/2024 10:42:58 AM PST by bigbob
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Ethiopia has cars?!

Who Knew

Up from the apes, and right back down again!


3 posted on 02/03/2024 10:43:19 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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And we all know that Ethiopia has an advanced electrical power grid that will support all these cars.

More likely, people will be forced to by trucks to be able to function. Those who are not wealthy will do without, and Ethiopia will remain poorer than it has to be.

Meanwhile, is there any doubt that foreign money is lining the pockets of those who authorized this action?


4 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:05 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: cba123

Just a testing ground for the globalists.


5 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:11 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: cba123

Wonder how many charging stations they have in Africa much less Ethiopia.


6 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:27 AM PST by mware
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To: cba123

Mind you, I do NOT support such laws. Everyone should have the freedom to choose.

But it is interesting, nonetheless.


7 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:29 AM PST by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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Isn’t this the least of their worries???


8 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:40 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: cba123

Someone is getting paid to make these insane decisions.

There is really no way people are this stupid.


9 posted on 02/03/2024 10:44:52 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: cba123

Both of them?


10 posted on 02/03/2024 10:45:10 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bigbob

Toss up between food, shelter and clothing.


11 posted on 02/03/2024 10:46:20 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: cba123

More like blazing a trail to greater abject poverty than they have already.


12 posted on 02/03/2024 10:46:35 AM PST by Dave911
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Who would want to go to Ethiopia?


13 posted on 02/03/2024 10:48:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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Wow this will fix their economy.


14 posted on 02/03/2024 10:48:44 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: cba123

The jokes write themselves. Is this the Babylon Bee?


15 posted on 02/03/2024 10:49:10 AM PST by caver
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Ethiopia, not the sharpest tool in the shed...


16 posted on 02/03/2024 10:49:12 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Maybe China will build them one.


17 posted on 02/03/2024 10:49:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: cba123

3 months ago - EV Floodgates Open In Ethiopia After Gov’t Exempts All EVs From VAT, Surtax, & Excise Tax

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/24/ev-flood-gates-open-in-ethiopia-after-govt-exempted-all-evs-from-vat-surtax-excise-tax-last-year/


18 posted on 02/03/2024 10:49:37 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: cba123

“ Mind you, I do NOT support such laws. Everyone should have the freedom to choose.”

That’s big of you. :)

My impression is you are a big EV supporter, especially 比亚迪汽车

Maybe I’m wrong.


19 posted on 02/03/2024 10:49:45 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cba123

Will anyone there notice?


20 posted on 02/03/2024 10:50:25 AM PST by ZULU (DUMP RONA ROMNEY MCDANIELS!!!)
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