In Brüssel wird nun das Verbot von Euro-5-Diesel- und Euro-2-Benzinautos durchgesetzt

Well yeah, gotta force the plebs to buy *new* autos!

„Bruxelles Environnement estimates these restrictions will impact about 7% of the city’s vehicle fleet“

A lot of work to solve 7% of the problem in a region that probably is not going to move the needle on climate change. All they will get is some complaints and probably not a whole lot more.

So, any diesel cars older than 15yo, any gasoline cars older than 25yo. Modest and fragile people’s cars. They don’t keep them for the fun of it.

The consumers politically easy target, that please car manufacturers on a side and ecologists on the other one. Without taking too much account pollution costs of scraping old cars and producing new ones.

Not saying that nothing should be done. There is a very more economic solution, like a pollution system retrofit plan for older vehicles to renew their pollution system parts, engine control and tuning. But, yeah. It don’t make people buying new cars.

If we truly want to clean transport products we need to inforce durability, with high standard quality production and reparability: to make things that last, not just expendable. But with our current stock market model where money need to fly fast with mandatory enshittification on any goods, this ship sailed away a long time ago.

It’s not like I’m ever going to visit Satan layer but unfortunately other places in EU will soon adopt this 💩 law