Ireland Declares Climate Emergency
https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-38098129.html
What are people's thoughts on this - how will this affect those who rely on (and, in the case of petrolheads, enjoy) the combustion engine?
I think all reasonable people appreciate climate change is a problem, but my concern is how governments including ours approach this. The obvious response will of course be to increase tax on fossil fuels, but I am not sure how well this would go down here with a middle class that is already pretty much at breaking point and where motor tax and the cost of motoring generally is stupidly high as it is. To me the only sensible approach would be to do the opposite and increase tax incentives for moving away from fossil fuels, but I am not sure there would be the political will for that here either.
From my own perspective, I am worried that this will lead to measures that make the use of performance cars such as M cars prohibitive even before I've really had a chance to own one.
Are others as pessimistic about this as I am or am I maybe overplaying it?
Ireland Declares Climate Emergency
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Originally Posted by
kildangan_kid
Personally I think the majority of it is a absolute load of rubbish.
The 6 largest container ships in the world, contribute as much pollution into the atmosphere as the equivalent of 175 million cars.
Just another political angle to ram this "carbon tax" down our throats.
And to add to this, one of the biggest global carbon polluters sells us all kinds of chemicals to pour down the drains causing damage to the marine environment...and healthy oceans would help with the c02 in the atmosphere.
Diesel engines I’ll defend from my point of view as a truck driver. The emission controls on mine are unreal, the adblue system along with a dpf regeneration and a few other things going on mean it has almost no bad stuff leaving the exhaust and if anything’s faulty, it’s warning lights, alarms and limp mode until put right. You will never see cars have anything like that.
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