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EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
« on: October 03, 2018, 05:31:52 pm »
EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
October 3, 2018 by Raf Casert And Jeffrey Schaeffer
 
The European Parliament wants to cut CO2 emissions from new cars and vans by 40 percent by 2030 and will try to convince the European Union's 28 nations to back the idea despite objections from the powerful car industry.

The proposed cut agreed on by the legislators Wednesday was a compromise between environmentalists who wanted tougher commitments and those who wanted to avoid too much damage to the auto industry.

The EU nations will discuss the measures further this month. Car producers in the EU are warning that tough cuts would cost manufacturing jobs.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-eu-lawmakers-car-emissions-percent.html#jCp

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Re: EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2018, 05:56:24 pm »
No surprise at all. Europe has favored diesels for years. And the diesels from VW Group, were spewing even worse in Europe, when the testing  cheating was found in the US.


Test cheating means far more air pollution, btw.

cheating tests, means Europe needs to "clean up their act"
Honest testing versus
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Re: EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2018, 06:00:52 pm »
Generally speaking, would it make too much sense to establish policy actually based upon what constitutes healthy air quality rather than some target pulled out of thin air?

I've watched the smog problem here in the SF Bay Area go from pretty bad in the late 60s to nearly non existent today yet Sacramento continues to mandate increasingly draconian standards going into the future.

Guess they've never heard of 'cost/benefit' analysis.
« Last Edit: October 03, 2018, 06:02:58 pm by skeeter »

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Re: EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2018, 01:26:37 am »
Eurocar roadster, 2035:

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Re: EU lawmakers want to cut car emissions by 40 percent by 2030
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2018, 08:05:59 am »
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