Oxford Is Banning Everything With An Engine - Starting In 2020
Well, how do you like this? Anything Paris can do, Oxford can look down its nose at. The English city, famous for its university and for generally hating cars in general, has announced a zero-emission zone starting in 2020.
This ban is more clearly-worded than the others we’ve seen. It’s a straightforward zero-emission policy, banning petrol and diesel cars as well as any hybrid that has a fossil-fuel combustion engine. So, if you live just outside Oxford, work in the centre and have just bought a Porsche 918 Spyder thinking you’d be safe from low-emission zone restrictions, Oxford City Council would like to tell you to get bent.
Actually, it’s not quite that bad. In 2020 just a few streets will start operating a policy that sees every vehicle with an engine banned. Even taxis and buses will be affected. Gradually, the whole city will be added to the scheme and even HGVs will be stopped from entering to deliver goods. If there aren’t widely available (and financially viable) electric trucks and vans by then… well, the people of Oxford will be in trouble, won’t they.
The full scheme won’t be in place until 2035, but busy city centre streets will be metaphorically roped off to combustion engines in just over a couple of years. How, exactly, are deliveries going to be made? Will the postal services have to invest in electric vans just for Oxford? This reeks of poorly thought-out political point-scoring.
Oxford’s EV infrastructure growth plans at this point are pretty pathetic. There’s half a million pounds on tap for charging points for taxis, and £800,000 more for – wait for it – a whole 100 charging points for residents. Yep, £8000 each for something you can buy yourself for your home or office for comfortably less than £1000. That’s including fitting, too. Here, good CTzens, is typical British council mismanagement at its finest. Idiots.
Meanwhile, the population of Oxford is currently about 160,000. A hundred charging sockets isn’t going to cut it. The council is throwing this new legislation around while the actual practicalities of making it happen – we call it ‘common sense’ – has been forgotten. Well done, guys.
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This is going to backfire in them since electricity consumption will raise, and the powerplants will need to make more power, as the demand rises up costs of power supply and infrastructures will raise like foam…yeah the future has a definitive advantage
All of the people in office think they are eco warriors that are gonna save the planet when in reality they are just going to make life a ton more difficult for the majority of people. It’s just pure stupidity
They just look like idiots.
Private schools. Bah.
This stuff is pretty depressing, because as long as there are plenty of people we will be producing energy, and as long as we’re producing energy we’re going to have to limit that energy for the rest of the animals living on earth, so the more people there are the less each individual is going to have. It’s unavoidable, there is no solution except for some kind of tax on having children, which is less than ideal as well.
You couldnt drive around there anyway, so…
We didnt like you anyway you snobs
They should make cars with holes on the bottom, so you could use your feet to push it, like the Flintstones. 0 pollution. (I’m joking, but it actually sounds like a cool idea.)
Hmm fire engines? Sorry we cant tackle the fire at your house as we cant drive down the road and the hosepipes are not long enough
Lets ban Oxford
So if you drive a electric car you cant drive it because it has an electric engine
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