Transportation Industry
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TRANSPORT COMMITTEE URGES CAR-FREE SUNDAYS
Transport Europe, February, 1994
Summary:
The European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism would like to see cars banned on Sundays, just as they were in certain European countries in 1973, during the first oil price crisis. In her report on transport and energy Marie Dinguirard (Greens, F) unveils a swathe of measures designed to reduce oil
consumption for transport purposes by 20% by the year 2000 and 50% by the year 2010.
The Committee wants speed limits on European motorways cut to no more than 120 km/h by 1995 (at least in countries where they are higher now).
From 1997, a progressive tax on vehicles with high energy consumption and a degressive tax on vehicles with low energy consumption should be imposed, with a zero rate for vehicles consuming no more than...
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