Dutch Labour party PvdA is pressing for the banning of sales of all petrol and diesel cars in the Netherlands from 2025.

The proposal has been met with support from the country’s lower houses of Parliament and could mean that only alternatively fuelled vehicles – such as electric cars – could be sold in the market nine years from now.



European leaders have been talking about such a ban for many years - insiders have suggested Paris will be the first to implement a zero-emissions-vehicle-only zone within its boundaries – but if it were introduced, the Dutch policy would come as the first complete ban on combustion-engined vehicles.







I think this is a suitable idea for their specific country and an interesting proof of concept for the rest of the world. I do believe we are moving toward electric powered cars. The only thing that could stop that progress is a closed loop hydrocarbon model such as hydrocarbon producing algae or bacteria. In that case, carbon is sequestered from the atmosphere to create the fuel, then burned and released back into the atmosphere. There is no net change in atmospheric carbon in that case and no reason not to use "renewable hydrocarbons". This assumes the algae and bacteria do not produce harmful side effects.

 

I'm okay with this.

More supercars for the civilized world.