UK: Car Ban by 2040

Petrol cars should be banned from the roads by 2040, the Liberal Democrats said yesterday.

Environment spokesman Chris Huhne said steeper taxes must be slapped on gasguzzling cars and foreign lorries should be charged to drive in the UK.
The money raised could be spent on rail investment, possibly creating a highspeed line running north to south.

Mr Huhne unveiled a package of green proposals aimed at making Britain “carbon neutral” by 2050.

He wants every vehicle in the country to be electric or gas-powered by 2040.

And he warned that the need to tackle climate change is desperate.

Mr Huhne said at the party’s conference in Brighton: “Do we want a world where the wind whips the tiles from our roofs, fells trees that have grown for generations? Where it rains four inches in a day? We are tearing up nature by the roots. Animal life is hanging by a thread.

“More than a third of all species are likely to become extinct if we do not stop now. It’s not just about saving the panda. It’s saving human life.”

The Mirror