Posted on 09/30/2013 7:59:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A German proposal circulated on the fringes of the EU Competitiveness Council on 27 September calls for phasing-in the EU’s 95 grams of CO2 per km (g/km) fuel efficiency standard for passenger cars over a four-year period ending in 2024.
The proposal, which has been confirmed to EurActiv by several diplomats, would apply the standard to 80% of national fleets in 2020, with a 5% increase in each of the following years, reaching 100% in 2024.
The green think tank Transport and Environment estimates that the scaling down of ambition would lead to an emissions standard of 104g/km in 2020, falling to 100g/km in 2022 before reaching 95g/km in 2024. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euractiv.com ...
I wonder how close that figure is to just blowing plain old air right through the cylinders.
And Leftists will explain this new rule, as they fly their Gulfstreams from place to place...
What Germany wants, Germany gets.
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