UK Mayors Push To Ban Internal Combustion Vehicles By 2030

City mayors across the UK are joining forces to encourage the introduction of a ban on pure petrol and diesel cars from 2030 in a bid to cut emissions produced by private transport.

Leaders from cities including Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, London and Oxford, who represent a combined 20 million residents, will put their case to environment secretary Michael Gove tomorrow at a national air quality summit.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is among those calling for the Government’s proposed 2040 ban on the sale of combustion-engined cars to be moved forward by a decade.

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carloslassiter - 6/19/2018 1:06:01 PM

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Waiting for Matt to announce that someone is a socialist-fascist and then make fun of the mayor's name. Should be in just a few minutes.

MDarringer - 6/19/2018 1:12:07 PM

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Thank you for that gift CarlosSanJose. You triggered yourself without me having to say anything. You should probably see a psychiatrist before you have a psychotic break.

F1_Driver - 6/20/2018 2:43:09 AM

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Sadiq? London? I had no idea London was a muslim city.

TheSteve - 6/19/2018 1:59:34 PM

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We'll see what *actually* happens over the next dozen years.

Remember, in 2008, Obama's objective was to get 1,000,000 EVs on the road by the end of 2015. So much for grandiose plans and good intentions.

TomM - 6/19/2018 5:26:02 PM

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In the 1970 during the first Gas Crisis - we were supposed to be OUT of Crude in 30 years - .

I do not remember that happening - in fact the USA is back at the position near Number one in production.

I do not believe anyone can really predict what Breakthroughs will come from Science and Engineering. IT IS POSSIBLE (Theoretically) to make an ICE engine that would be OVERALL cleaner (Taking electric production into account).ANd If such happens - I would suspect electric cars would again be niche items.

TheSteve - 6/19/2018 8:12:47 PM

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TomM: My understanding is that those who proclaim a (premature) ban on ICE (or extinction) are not doing so because they believe we'll run out of oil. Their intention is to reduce pollution, even though we'll still have plenty of oil and "clean coal" (hee-hee) to burn.

That's a different state of mind compared to the 1970s, when some folks predicted the world will run out of oil in 30 years, because they (incorrectly assumed) we would not get a whole lot better at finding oil and extracting it. They made their wrong predictions based on their wrong assumptions.

TheSteve - 6/19/2018 8:44:03 PM

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TomM: re Cleaner ICE -- According to reports I'm seeing, a number of research facilities are alleging they have the technology to reduce ICE emission by around 2/3. That includes gasoline *and* diesel(!). They further allege the technology is cheap, reliable, and could be in production passenger cars within 2 years.

Note my repeated used of "allege".

Assuming this is true, it would be a serious game changer for ICE. And a welcome one, not that ICE is the answer for all time to come, but because it's beneficial, usable, readily accessible tech that we all know, and it has an ample support structure and convenience, already in place.

Bring on the options, including better EVs, PHEVs, and whatever else brainiac engineers can dream up!

xjug1987a - 6/19/2018 10:57:29 PM

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Seems with the recent news they should focus on banning knives! See knives kill people, not people kill people... MAGA!!

MDarringer - 6/20/2018 8:40:22 AM

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I'm not looking forward to flying for a planned visit to Wales.

MDarringer - 6/20/2018 8:41:02 AM

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It's what the psychotic Alt-Left Gestapo likes to do. They hate freedom and love destroying things.