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HarryHacker42 t1_iyiyws5 wrote

Reply to comment by Lelabear in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

In the EU, there are so many small cars with high efficiency engines. Even in the USA, they do make the Prius and cars like it. Its not like you have to drive a Dodge Ram Pickup rolling coal.

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I_R0M_I t1_iyjq9qy wrote

It has nothing to do with efficiency (mpg), it's only to do with emissions.

A 5L Supercharged Range Rover is very poor efficency, around 15mpg. Yet its Euro 6. Despite being the the worst tax bracket (based on co2) there is.

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Lelabear t1_iyj0e0h wrote

If they really wanted us in fuel efficient cars they could have phased out the gas guzzlers long ago and developed decent mass transit.

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HarryHacker42 t1_iyj2enu wrote

If you play SimCity, you'll learn the time for Mass Transit is when the city is first developing. To tear up the city and put in mass transit later is really expensive.

The conservatives have been fighting against high efficiency vehicles since oil companies first started bribing them.

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Lelabear t1_iyj40iz wrote

Except we had a decent infrastructure for mass transit with the trolley cars and rail lines when the cities were built, they tore it all up to put in roads and parking lots.

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One-Gap-3915 t1_iyjmyuq wrote

> they could have phased out the gas guzzlers long ago

They have, gas guzzlers are taxed in the U.K. and the car industry is on notice that new petrol cars are banned from 2035 onwards. As a result the U.K. car market has shifted to offer many small efficient city car options.

> and developed decent mass transit.

We are talking about London, U.K. here. It’s literally had highly developed mass transit since at least the Victorian age.

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