The French capital has banned vehicles registered before the year 2000 in a bid to combat pollution in the city. A law introduced in Paris on Monday requires all cars to have a sticker indicating which of six categories it fits into — indicating the year of the vehicle's registration, its energy efficiency, and its emission quantity. Any diesel-run vehicle showing a 'Level 5' sticker on their windscreen, which indicates they were produced from 1997 to 2000, is not allowed on the road. Around six per cent of France's 32 million cars fall into this category.
Vehicles registered from earlier than 1997 and trucks and buses from before 2001 are not assigned to any category, meaning they are completely banned from driving in the city from Monday to Friday between 8am and 8pm.
In Paris, the ban applies for all roads inside the A86 motorway, the second ring road around Paris, but not the A86 itself, and anyone caught driving one of these cars in Paris risks a minimum fine of €22. The new measures come after Paris and other cities recorded several severe smog spikes over the past two months. Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, said the policy was necessary to encourage motorists to “change their transport modes” in order to reduce traffic. She said: “To tackle the source of the problem is notably encouraging motorists to change their modes of transport to reduce motor traffic.”
Juan Walker
They should do this in the UK. So sick of breathing in cancerous smog.
Isaac Wright
diesel is extremely efficient though
whats wrong with these people are they retarded?
Levi Fisher
>banned vehicles registered before the year 2000 Clickbait in MY Sup Forums?
Kevin Diaz
Its more likely than you think!
Luis Rivera
bump
Jack Brooks
Confiscation of property. It's what socialist hellholes do. Germany has this as well in most cities. Except they ban any diesel car without particle filters, so even most ones made in 2005.
It should say "diesel-powered vehicles" in the title but that's the state of modern journalism. Anyway only three year older petrol cars are also banned. Even though those cars already have catalytic converters and there's really no difference between a 1995 an a 1997 car. Pure arbitrary confiscation to stimulate the declining French economy.
Jordan Brooks
You are the retard Diesel engines produce much more pollution than gasoline engines, thats why their exhaust gas has to be filtered
Aaron Gomez
Well and I assume before 2000 is for the most part before Common Rail Diesel + Urea additive technologies were common. My guess as to part of the VW scandal was they had to tinker with the emissions software so they could make the engines pass without requiring Urea that customers didn't want to keep topping up every 5000 miles.
Benjamin Barnes
Meanwhile muzzies take over and they complain about our prez not taking rapefugees... Sad!
Ryder Rogers
What's the problem? Diesel cars made before the mid-2000s for the most part don't have emissions of as high a minimum standard as those before, if their goal is cleaner cities with less air pollution and particulate matter it seems like a smart move. If it fucks anything up the government can pay to have the engines retrofitted or something to match modern standards, or just start a car-buyback program to get newer cars with good emissions standards off the road and get ones with the previous emissions standards off of it.
Ryan Gray
They're actually confiscating the cars themselves are they? Or are they just confiscating the right to use them without a full engine change.
Diesel is very efficient, not environmentally friendly.
Easton Ross
If you live in Paris it's basically confiscation as your car has just become an expensive paperweight. If you park your car on the public road, not even that.
You could sell it to someone who never drives in Paris but is willing to go there to buy your car. For half what it was worth before, obviously.
Lincoln Bennett
Diesel produces less co2 than gas. The carbon it produces doesnt go into the atmosphere.
Justin Richardson
How does it stack up to petrol?
Jaxon Sanders
>socialism not even once.
And to think, this is the country that supposedly valued liberty more than the US. The ones who had a revolution against their monarchy so violent that even America's Founding Fathers said "God Damn."
Bentley Watson
CO2 isn't an air quality pollutant.
Luke Allen
Yes it's more fuel efficient and produces much less CO2 than a comparable gasoline engine since the combustion process is more efficient, but that's not the pollution problem people are talking/worrying about. Literally in terms of pollution CO2 is meaningless, it doesn't cause any harm other than greenhouse effect.
The problem with diesel engines is that they produce entire orders of magnitued (up to 500x unfiltered) particulate emissions (soot, uncombusted carbon particles, etc.) than gasoline engines do, which is a big pollution hazard and air contaminant and is the reason China's air quality is so unbelievably uniquely goddamn shitty.
Leo Gutierrez
If your air quality and general environment is shitty you're forced to breathe it all the time and can't escape it, and you're going to suffer horribly and you aren't free from the consequences of shitty decisions which negatively impact the environment have on your health, if freedom from a terrible, life-draining environment isn't the greatest freedom than I don't know what is.
Michael Barnes
tree hugging faggots
John Edwards
sounds like just another excuse to cover for the fact that you live in a socialist country owned by a globalist NWO prototype.
Jaxon Perez
Combating pollution is fine, do you want to live in fucking Beijing?
Brody Williams
What? What are you even saying? America is owned by globalist Jews, France probably less so than us, what does this have to do with you just labeling everything that isn't minarchist/ancap like France socialist like most autistic Americans on here?
Elijah Fisher
Let me guess, they started burning cars in paris again?
Levi Cook
if they wanted to combat pollution of their city maybe they shouldn't have imported all those brown people
Jace Jackson
Well there's not much they can do about it at this point, it's not politically expedient and would basically mean Civil War and national division the likes of which you haven's seen in France since the 1800s, not to mention it's already been done so there's nothing they can do about it now. Instead of just autstically bitching about it realize they're doing something logical which will slowly phaze out more polluting vehicles and gradually improve the air and environmental quality for Parisians to enjoy and improve their quality of life?
Hudson Walker
>Instead of just autstically bitching about it i was making a joke but i guess jokes aren't your strong point
Juan Jenkins
My city has done the same... I wanted to buy a Land Rover Defender, but now I can't.
Nolan Young
Good. I'm tired of being stuck in cancerous smogs.
Dominic Wood
>Confiscation of property. It's what socialist hellholes do. Germany has this as well in most cities. Except they ban any diesel car without particle filters, so even most ones made in 2005. They're not confiscating anything, they're just giving you a fine if you drive it through the city.
John Cooper
A co-worker actuallys runs a diesel car from 1999 in Paris and cops never arrested him. They got too much shit dealing with brown people.
I'm glad tourism is falling down in this piece of shit city. Hope it burns to ashes
Gabriel Scott
> A law introduced in Paris on Monday requires all cars to have a sticker indicating which of six categories it fits into OY VEY IT'S LIKE A YELLOW STAR
Charles Morgan
I haven't been to Paris in a long time, is it really that bad?
Kayden Rivera
>encourage people to buy diesel by taxing the shit out of oil >lol get fucked poor people, just buy a new car or take the metro full of gypsies and nigs! >Oh and btw I saw you goyim heating your houses with wood? Can't have that here, just pay for gas And you guys probably don't know about "circulation alternée", some days half of the car owners can't drive while the other half is allowed then it switches
fuck Paris and fuck parisian people
Kayden Gonzalez
FUN FACT
The Great Smog of 1952, sometimes called The Big Smoke, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in December 1952.
4,000 people died as a direct result of the smog and 100,000 more were made ill by the smog's effects on the human respiratory tract. More recent research suggests that the total number of fatalities was considerably greater, about 12,000.
Mason Myers
Nigger, try living in Beijing for 1 day
Jace Bell
White people are an ethnic minority in Paris
Juan Anderson
>White people are an ethnic minority in Paris White people are an ethnic minority in France
Diesel not only has higher energy density but diesel engines are more efficient.
Jaxson Wilson
This
It takes 3 gallons of regular gas to get the same mileage as 2 gains of diesel. not only that but it takes more energy to create gasoline because you have to refine it longer with more heat.
Diesel does produce a bit of soot but a decent catalytic converter and soot filter solve all of that.
France is just following bullshit environmentalists who don't know a thing they are talking about. Meanwhile, the whole Scandinavian region is buying diesel Audi's at rate 4 for every 5 sold due to the better environmental impact and low maintenance costs.
