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Quite the opposite. The fact that ICE sales are expected to drop long before that makes it a "safe" promise because it's happening anyway - a politician's dream
by gruturo 9y ago
Quite the opposite. The fact that ICE sales are expected to drop long before that makes it a "safe" promise because it's happening anyway - a politician's dream - but it still has value: it is likely to cause further acceleration of the drop of ICE sales.
And that's good for the environment (doubly so in France, where a lot of electricity is not generated by carbon-emitting methods).
- alex_duf 9y agoBy ridiculous, what I meant is that it's a PR stunt. If anything it signals to the auto industry "don't worry you still have time to produce combustion engines"
- netsharc 9y agoConsidering the German and French governments were found to have lobbied for continued lax emissions testing during Dieselgate, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-france-and-germany-lobbied-for-flawed-car-emissions-tests-documents-reveal https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc... , it shouldn't be a surprise. Non-corrupt beacons of democracies my ass...
- euyyn 9y ago> Non-corrupt beacons of democracies What European has ever said that of their government?