Norway May Ban Gas Cars After 2015

[n2doc]

Written by Nick Chambers
Published on April 27th, 2009

Norwegian Finance Minister, Kristin Halvorsen, and her Socialist Left Party have put forth a plan that would disallow the sale of new cars that run solely on gasoline after 2015.

Under the plan new cars such as hybrids, that run partially on gas, would still be allowed to be sold in the country, but any cars that only use gas as their power source would be illegal. Cars already on the road would be unaffected.

While the intention may be good, the practicality of the proposal is insanely questionable — to say the least.

So don’t worry, even though the issue may be used by some of the more reactive arms of the essentially useless mainstream media as further proof that socialism is bad, the real story is that everybody else in Norway thinks the proposal is as crazy as most of you likely do.

According to reports, the plan has no legs due to heavy opposition by Norway’s other two ruling parties and its Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/norway-may-ban-gas-cars-after-2015/

[endarkenment]

1. yeah but we are going to sort of mandate 35mpg by 2020

:sarcasm:

[onehandle]

2. Hey! Me too. Sooner, probably.

The current vehicle, who's lease ends in 2011, will be my last all gas vehicle.

[kestrel91316]

3. Good for them. Just one more step (along with have a Socialist Finance

Minister, lol) to ensure that no mouth-breathiing RW Americans will go there and give us a bad name.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. What commerce/transportation by other countries who may not have

non-gas trucks? Would they be banned?

[NNadir]

5. They are so full of shit, it, um, stinks. This is like their Sleipner proposal for

sequestration, which collapsed after they got their gas fired electricity plants built and then discovered that it would actually cost money.

And then there was the Utsira wind-to-hydrogen hype that was trumpeted loudly a few years back by dumbass anti-nukes here.

Last I heard, that scheme was funded through 2008. We haven't seen shit in Norway about "wind-to-hydrogen."

Norway is a dangerous fossil fuels Republic and has done every possible thing it can to put lipstick on the dangerous fossil fuels pig.

No oil, no gas, no money.

Come to think of it, that describes Denmark as well, another dangerous fossil fuel hell hole with lots of lipstick on its pig. The front page of the Danish Energy Agency's pages features off shore oil rigs.