French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones
French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones
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French MPs vote to scrap low-emission zones in blow to Macron
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Fucking hell. Yeah Paris was getting too hospitable
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This isn't all about paris. How this worked is that your car had a number from 5 to 0 (5 bring the most polluting) assigned to it depending on its type of motor (diesel or essence) and it's date of manufacturing.
What this meant was that your old Peugeot 205, which consume next to nothing as it is really light was forbidden, but a big Mercedes suv measured in liters/km was allowed without issues.
To be honest, the ZFE were a good idea, just poorly executed. The criteria should have been determined at the bi-annual checkup of your car (controle technique), but that would have angered the big manufacturer that wouldn't be able to sell their massive suv anymore.
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What this meant was that your old Peugeot 205, which consume next to nothing as it is really light was forbidden, but a big Mercedes suv measured in liters/km was allowed without issues.
It's really unintuitive, but small older cars are consuming more gasoline than newer, bigger cars. My old Opel Corsa D uses more liters per kilometer than my parents big SUV and has worse emissions. There have been real improvements in fuel economy and exhaust cleaning in the last 30-40 years. The issue with those big SUVs is that they could be even more efficient if there were smaller and lighter. A modern engine in a small car like the Peugeot 205 would really be something.
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Behold, the USAian influence.
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I can't find when this goes into effect in the article.
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It doesn't yet, there's another vote.
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2 more votes yet plus approval by constitutional committee according to the article
"The abolition is expected to go through the upper house, France's Senate, but it still needs to be approved in a broader bill in the lower house in June and will have to be approved by France's Constitutional Council, which is not guaranteed."
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Couldn't they have given out free or reduced price Crit'Air to the lowest earners and/or local residents? Similar to chèque énergie (winter fuel allowance), which is already means tested. This probably wouldn't affect the goal of reducing polluting traffic by much.
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The crit d'air itself is cheap - I recently ordered one and even with postage to Germany it was under 5€. It was also quite easy - go to a website, put in data from your car licence, pay via credit card, that's it.
The big issue here is that they are kind of aggressive in weeding out older cars - you can't get a crit d'air for cars older than 1997. That makes sense - those cars do not have modern emission tech and they are at least 28 years old. Some cities like Paris have even stricter rules and ban cars older than 2005.
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