Environment
EU backing Balearic diesel vehicle phasing-out
Marc Pons, Balearic transport and energy minister (left), with Miguel Arias Cañete (right). | MDB
Palma22/02/2018 00:00
Brussels supports the Balearic government plans for phasing out diesel and petrol vehicles. The regional transport and energy minister, Marc Pons, met the EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action, Miguel Arias Cañete, in Brussels on Tuesday. They discussed the Balearic draft legislation on climate change, an aspect of which is that diesel vehicles will not be allowed to enter the islands from 2025; the same restriction will apply to petrol vehicles from 2035.
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A way around banning diesel cars, is to use vegetable cooking oil, as a few people already do. Also banning all diesel and petrol cars eventually, all one is doing, is to shift the pollution, unless electric can be solar. Humm, difficult at night for charging, unless one can have solar battery storage.
If we're talking about moving to electric cars where if the infrastructure for charging them, especially in rural sreas where you can't get a mains elecricity connection without paying a ransom?
One source says that the daily emission of cruise ships could be as much as 1 million cars https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/daily-emissions-of-cruise-ships-same-as-one-million-cars/
James in theory you have a point, but I would imagine that private yachts, both large and small, are bigger polluters. Apparently most new ferry type ships are being built with engines that use natural gas. Vic, most of the trucks will be self driving by then, which will mean only the trailers will be loaded onboard, to be subsequently delivered to their destination using, probably again, a self driven electric tractor.
The media talks about cars (coches) not trucks (camións) so trucks can still come here. Media also talks about tourists' cars, not those owned by residents. And unfortunately the authorities don't dare to include the worst polluders of all: the cruise ships
So vans and trucks will not be coming to Islands after 2025 ?
Does the same apply to the cruise ships which are the biggest polluter?
800 million euros you can at least double that , anything that is forecast NEVER meets its target fact ,