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The Netherlands is going further:
"In a majority vote, the lower house of Dutch parliament supported a motion to no longer allow new sales of petrol or diesel cars from 2025. "
"In 2015, the Netherlands saw over 43,000 new plug-ins purchased, out of some 449,347 registrations, good for a 9.6% market share."
The Netherlands is going further:
"In a majority vote, the lower house of Dutch parliament supported a motion to no longer allow new sales of petrol or diesel cars from 2025. "
"In 2015, the Netherlands saw over 43,000 new plug-ins purchased, out of some 449,347 registrations, good for a 9.6% market share."
The Netherlands is always one of the first and than the government implements another new thing and again taxes are going up, ticket prices for public transportation will increase, cut in health care benefits and of course the VAT tax will probably be raised again as 21% which it is right now will not be sufficient.
Meanwhile store after store is closing down as over the last 3 months one of the biggest departments store chains V & D closed down as well as 3 shoe store chains, sport store chain, etc.
Just today I asked my mom if there is a actually still a store left to go to and she told me another store had major sales and she expect them to close down!
yeah, i think that's great. This would be unthinkable in the US, but countries like the Netherlands are good test beds for this kind of thing.
This will impact some people's ability to get around, but the Netherlands has alternatives, as they've invested heavily in bicycles and trains.
They don't have a domestic auto industry to speak of , so this effectively serves as a stealth tariff on Germany, Japan, France, and Italy, and creates the conditions for a nascent dutch electric car industry.
The Netherlands is always one of the first and than the government implements another new thing and again taxes are going up, ticket prices for public transportation will increase, cut in health care benefits and of course the VAT tax will probably be raised again as 21% which it is right now will not be sufficient.
Meanwhile store after store is closing down as over the last 3 months one of the biggest departments store chains V & D closed down as well as 3 shoe store chains, sport store chain, etc.
Just today I asked my mom if there is a actually still a store left to go to and she told me another store had major sales and she expect them to close down!
Now now bentlebee, don't leave out the rest! See, I used to live in Europe just like you claim, and it's also happening in the UK. Except, the caveat is, a lot of the stores closing down are "high street brands" in British parlance, and are moving to e-tailing, not going bankrupt
good for them. with a country that small, less than 17 million people and excellent public transit, this could work.
There are probably a number of countries that could pull this off, but the US is a very long way from it.
Of course, the biggest problem at some point in time will be what to do with all of the gasoline that is a biproduct of refining petroleum.
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