Originally Posted by businessgreen.com
The European Commission is reportedly planning to publish an ambitious transport road map next week, which will include recommendations to phase out fossil-fuelled cars by 2050.
The commission will publish a white paper on Monday outlining recommendations for how the bloc should sustainably develop its transport infrastructure. A copy of the report, seen by EurActive, shows it wants to halve the use of oil- and gas-fuelled cars by 2030 before phasing them out completely by 2050.
Besides eliminating fossil fuelled cars buses and trucks, the EU plans to shift freight transport greater than 300km to trains and boats.
Do you think that Europe can (or should) eliminate cars? Why does the US have a different approach from the rest of the world--that is, doing nothing about carbon consumption and traffic congestion?