Originally Posted by
Grumbles
All this talk of banning ICE cars/fossil fueled cars is fine and dandy but there is one important aspect being overlooked. That is the average age of the Oz car fleet which is 10 years with Tasmania being 13 years. combine this with why this is the case. Basically it comes down to low personal incomes - think pensioners, single income families, low payng jobs etc. - Having low incomes precludes the possibility of ever buying a more modern car.
Banning these cars will cause huge hardship for the owners. They simply can't afford to replace their ICE cars with a hydrogen or battery car. Removing their mobility at the stroke of a pen will at best result in social unrest and possibly/probably violence similar to the recent Black Lives Matter riots in the USA. It may be worse here because it will likely be country wide unrest rather than the city confined riots of the USA.
It is important to note that in Oz rural regions the loss of a car means isolation from work, schools, shops, doctors, social needs etc. In other words no car is a stay at home situation.
You have missed the point - there is no ban on fossil fuelled ICEs - there is going to be a ban of manufacturers selling new vehicles - there is no intention to ban cars already on the road as these will just die a slow agonising death. So the great unwashed can still have their old cars but if they want a new one it will have to be electric or hydrogen.
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