France is tagging motor vehicles with a mandatory sticker that alerts authorities to its overall performance and aesthetics. This is used to fine, and block usage of, vehicles it deems bad for the environment. This also includes vehicles entering from neighboring countries.
Scooters, cars and lorries travelling to Paris, Lyon and Grenoble must have the sticker displayed showing how much the vehicle pollutes, on a scale of one to six, from March 31.
The six coloured stickers indicate the age and cleanliness of a vehicle. Cars are rated according to whether they are electric or hydrogen-powered, petrol or diesel cars, and how old they are.
The sticker scheme has been introduced to tackle high levels of pollution in the French cities, and vehicles with high pollution scores can be banned from entering the French capital on days when pollution is high.
Now they need to start tagging people that are bad for the environment.
ht/ The Big Owe
I’m glad to see France is getting their priorities in order. Silly things like rape, murder and arson were taking up way too many resources.
Unless of course you are a terrorist preparing to drive the vehicle through a crowd of innocent people.
Frankly I wish CA would do this, instead of focusing on CO2. A single gross polluter more than offsets thousands of newer, clean-burning cars, and is rather offensive. An easy start is every Mercedes diesel more than 30 years old.
Well Brad: I know I would prefer being run over by a stylish, clean burning machine. Who wouldn’t?
“The six coloured stickers”
as they display seven stickers.
I wonder what class my Renault Le Car is in?
Health Care and Climate Regulations – the two pillars to controlling everything people can do.
Levels 1-6 for polluting cars. The electric doesn’t have a number because it doesn’t pollute at all.
Where do they think the electricity comes from?
What do they think happens to nice new Teslas in a decade or two? The same thing that happens with old petrol cars. They sit in the backyard and leak. Now instead of one lead acid battery spilling, you’ve got a bank full of high capacity lithium leaking all over. Gee, no pollution there.
But, hey, as long as the socialists can’t SEE the pollution (as evidence with a plug-in 0 emissions sticker) then it doesn’t exist.
They got the idea from progressive National Socialists who branded people and businesses with Jewish stars to identify and ban them.
Since they are socialist they can easily adopt Obummer’s “Cash for Clunkers” fiasco!
Coming to CA in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1….
Now if they could come up with a sticker rating system for B.O.. Yeah I went there and I’ve been all over France and some of the French need to be better acquainted with modern standards of hygiene.
Does this take into account the cars set afire by the ragheads?
izlamo delenda est …
I put “high pollution” in quotes because it’s not like saying “Wednesday.”
Once this is in place “high pollution” days will be more and more, until every gas powered vehicle is banned.
Muslims will just have to get used to mowing people down in electric cars.
Hey Fur, muzzies like the silence of electric cars.
Pro tip:
Don’t listen for engine noise, listen for Alluha Ackbar
A government with the power to give you everything is a government with the power to take everything away from you.
Gerald Ford
Some people are already being tagged, tramp stamps and ownership branding/tats sorry for the downer.
@cracker – not to mention the pollution generated in building the cars in the first place. Particularly getting those rare-earth metals, which are not so prevalent in gas-burning cars.
Left Coast Dan
And battery disposal. Even before the car sits in the backyard leaking they will have gone through several batteries. Not cheap, and certainly not environmentally friendly.
UN Agenda 21, proceeding on schedule.
Demonized private vehicle ownership/usage as precursor to outright banning.
An immobilized population reduced to standing in the rain at bus stops is a well controlled herd.
I am sure the “youths” are more interested in a cars flammability not really concerned with fuel consumption if you are going to burn it to the road.
Vehicle inspections should be abolished altogether. It is a complete pain in the ass and just another non deductible expense. And another way of controlling the masses.
But camels will be allowed, right? They are, after all, “multi-purpose vehicles” aren’t they? Like goats, only bigger…
“the mind is a terrible thing to waste” and there are many people on this planet that have wasted what they have been given at birth. They say-I’m okay-your okay-or
can’t we agree to disagree>? it is all bull chit..
stay away from stupid people-it may be contagious.
Hold on fer a minute, which one is gonna go
on car bombs coming into the city?