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EU confirms 120g/km CO2 emissions target for 2012

 
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EU confirms 120g/km CO2 emissions target for 2012

EU confirms 120g/km CO2 emissions target for 2012

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European Council members met yesterday at a meeting in Luxembourg and have voted unanimously in favor of cutting fleet average carbon-dioxide emission levels for cars sold in Europe to 120g/km by 2012.

"This sends a clear message to the car industry that current efforts to reduce emissions must continue and must be intensified and accelerated." said EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas. Under new proposals, a reduction in CO2 emissions will be brought about by technology improvements and the higher use of biofuels.

A major problem that has arisen, however, is the fact that the rulings are unfair to most of Germany’s carmakers, which build larger and more powerful vehicles as opposed to the carmakers from France and Italy, which produce smaller and much more fuel-efficient cars.

No agreement was reached as to how to deal with this problem but the council isn't expected to finalize the new standards until the end of the year. It will also put forward it's own suggestions for dealing with this discrepancy between the manufacturers of large and small vehicles.



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Comments (5)

  1. By biturbo Posted: 6/29/2007 8:35am PDT

    Leave it to old bureaucrates to decide on things they have no clue.
    So Europe will be driving econoboxes... sad.
    Very happy at not living there :)
     
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  2. By Gus Posted: 6/29/2007 10:22am PDT

    I have spent years blasting along the autobahn, I see those days (one way or the other) becoming just a story (with pictures) I tell my grandchildren.
     
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  3. By HECTOR Posted: 6/29/2007 11:45am PDT

    Let's not forget this is the same bunch that made DRLs mandatory.

    So basically no proof whatsoever that DRLs do anything more than drain your battery or that cars cause global warming but the Eurocrats are treating them both as if they were god's own words.
     
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  4. By NaBUru38 Posted: 6/29/2007 8:24pm PDT

    I've heard of proposals of "fuel quotas" that would mean sports car and off-roader makers (Porsche, Land Rover) would have to pay small car makers (Fiat, Citroën) for their thirstier models.This measure is reasonable as long as gas guzzlers are allowed... with heavy taxes on them, I mean.
     
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  5. By Lewis Posted: 6/29/2007 11:40pm PDT

    Remember guys, the new rules mandate an AVERAGE CO2 level of 120g/km. This means that the bigger and more powerful cars will remain, just that there will have to be a lot more fuel efficient models to balance it out.

    BMW's new Efficient Dynamics and VW's TSI engines are the future, power plus economy.. Nothing wrong with that.
     
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