Ireland is fast-tracking legislation that will effectively ban all gas-powered vehicles within a decade, leaving customers who are buying cars in January confused about what to do next, local reports show.
The country’s Climate Action Minister Richard Bruton plans to publish the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2019 enforcing such a ban, the Independent.ie reported Monday.
The ban was officially announced in June, according to the report. One of Ireland’s political parties is pushing back.
“Fianna Fáil is mindful that families and businesses remain extremely reliant on petrol/diesel cars and that any phase-out must be combined with greater investment in EV charging, public transport, and cycling infrastructure,” Fianna Fáil climate spokesman Jack Chambers told the Independent.
Chambers noted that any phase-out of fossil fuel-powered vehicles required an immediate transition to electric vehicles.
The country’s automotive industry also suggested fast-tracking such a proposal, which was designed to eliminate carbon emissions, which could create a lot of confusion.
“This only adds to the confusion, at a time when people are buying new cars. January is the biggest selling month for new cars,” Brian Cooke, director general of Society of the Irish Motor Industry, told reporters.
He added: “There are around 35,000 new cars sold in January, so it’s the key month for us.”
Ireland’s push is similar to the one that U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York proposed in October.
“That’s why I am announcing a new proposal designed to rapidly phase out gas-powered vehicles and replace them with zero-emission, or ‘clean,’ vehicles like electric cars,” Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, wrote in an editorial that month after suggesting scientists agree that climate change represents an imminent threat to the U.S.
He added: “The goal of the plan, which also aims to spur a transformation in American manufacturing, is that by 2040 all vehicles on the road should be clean.” The plan would remove more than 63 million gas-powered cars from the road by 2030, Schumer estimates.
The senator’s office expects the proposal to cost roughly $392 billion over a decade. The Washington Post referred to the idea as “essentially ‘Cash for Clunkers’ on steroids,” referring to a policy from the Obama-era encouraging Americans to trade their old vehicles for fuel-efficient cars.
Cash for Clunkers was the mechanism allowing the federal government to offer incentives of between $2,500 and $4,500 to citizens who traded in their older vehicles for newer ones.
Critics called the idea, which received generous media fanfare, a failure even if it was designed with the best of intentions.
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Stupid A**holes
We’ll watch back while they’re
so politically correct and stupid.
We’ll be eating pudding while they’ll be
sucking on whatever
What they want is to destroy gentile capitalism and industry, destroy the order of all things as it was written in their plan centuries ago [talmudists, using its various tentacle weapons: illuminati first, then freemasonry together with a few top secret societies and tax free foundations – the head of the octopus is always the same, but the tentacles are quite a few and sometimes a tentacle or another changes names in order to fool people]
it’s astonishing how easy is to brainwash most people on earth. Didn’t they have biology lessons in school? I was 13 when I was taught the “photosynthesis” process, how trees and plants need CO2 to breath; CO2 which is harmless to nature. This is what the Club of Rome invented in the 60’s to engineer a false “crisis”, a global crisis. There’s one simple argument, a fact which demolishes instantly all the lies of this marxist agenda: that the weather has been manipulated for decades with technologies like Haarp & Chemtrails.
“1976 UN Weather Weapons Treaty”. Behind this agenda is our world wealthy elite [those ‘chosen’ who own banks, big corporations, media, hollywood, etc]. Their real goal is to destroy gentile capitalism and industry. They fooled the world by saying communism was dead, when perestroika was just another big deception since they replaced the phoney “cold war” with another invisible enemy that can be anyone, can strike anywhere at anytime: the war on terror! In order to boast this new “threat”, the Mossad engineered 9/11, with the aid of the CIA [like in JFK assassination because he didn’t want Israel to have nuclear capability] …and boom, all of a sudden the entire world was indoctrinated by the jewish controlled media to go against the Islamic world – fulfilling another step in Albert Pike’s plan for the creation of three world wars; and so initiated the preparation process to soon explode a WWIII, because only then the synagogue of satan will be able to present to the world their “world teacher”, their “great leader”, their “messiah”! Yes friend, the world conspiracy in which ‘climate change’ is a weapon, is spiritual, not political nor social.
The Emerald Isle votes itself back to the Stone Age
Rather than the Stone Age consider going back 150 years. Rural residents can start coming to town on horses and in horse drawn buggies. They will soon learn something about that time that is always left out of western movies. The streets will be full of horse manure. I wonder how the liberal elite will like that?
I read an article from Kevin Cameron today . To convert the entire American vehicle fleet to EV’s would require increasing base – load generation capacity by 245 new generating stations, each capable of producing 600 megawatts. 63% of America’s existing electricity comes from fossil fuels. Would that have to be replaced too? Green energy need not apply. It’s not capable of providing base-load power. That’s just generation. Add the infrastructure needed to charge those vehicles . It’s not going to happen just because of some campaign promise.
….. turkeys voting for an early Christmas……….
Ireland has many people living in remote rural areas. The average yearly wage in Ireland is $53,112 $US and you can bet it is a lot lower in rural areas. With this income people are expected to buy a $40,000 electric car. It just isn’t possible. Rural residents will be forced to move into the cities and live in tiny apartments collecting welfare. Food production in Ireland will crash and the country will have to import most of its food.
About time voters pushed back!
Absolutely Crazy. We need carbon emissions to survive. CO2 is vital for plant life which in turn provide us with OXYGEN. Already CO2 levels are less than half of what they were when the World was teeming with life. These uninformed and uneducated politicians can only see ‘RED’ and NOT GREEN. Same with global temperature – dangerously low and just half of what it was during the Silurian, Carboniferous, Cretaceous periods and other times when Carbon began life on Earth.
Exactly my friend, it’s astonishing how easy is to brainwash most people on earth. Didn’t they have biology lessons in school? I was 13 when I was taught the “photosynthesis” process, how trees and plants need CO2 to breath; CO2 which is harmless to nature. This is what the Club of Rome invented in the 60’s to engineer a false “crisis”, a global crisis. There’s one simple argument, a fact which demolishes instantly all the lies of this marxist agenda: that the weather has been manipulated for decades with technologies like Haarp & Chemtrails.
“1976 UN Weather Weapons Treaty”. Behind this agenda is our world wealthy elite [those ‘chosen’ who own banks, big corporations, media, hollywood, etc]. Their real goal is to destroy gentile capitalism and industry. They fooled the world by saying communism was dead, when perestroika was just another big deception since they replaced the phoney “cold war” with another invisible enemy that can be anyone, can strike anywhere at anytime: the war on terror! In order to boast this new “threat”, the Mossad engineered 9/11, with the aid of the CIA [like in JFK assassination because he didn’t want Israel to have nuclear capability] …and boom, all of a sudden the entire world was indoctrinated by the jewish controlled media to go against the Islamic world – fulfilling another step in Albert Pike’s plan for the creation of three world wars; and so initiated the preparation process to soon explode a WWIII, because only then the synagogue of satan will be able to present to the world their “world teacher”, their “great leader”, their “messiah”! Yes friend, the world conspiracy in which ‘climate change’ is a weapon, is spiritual, not political nor social.
At last someone who knows what he’s talking about and recognises a scam.