I am not the person you replied, taxes on pollution affect the poor, it is true but I seen people buying a 20 years BMW
rather then a new or newer less cool model car, so the pollution taxes and measures should affect this purchases and push people into buying petrol, smaller engine cars.
Europe is different from the US, we don't need cars here. I'm from Romania and I don't even have a licence. The only reason to have a car here is for work or comfort. I've travelled around the EU quite a lot and could always get around with public transport or taxis.
So no, in the context of the EU, banning cars is not a tax on the poor, it is a comfort tax at best and one which increases the comfort of every other citizen while punishing "poor" people who want cheap comfort at the expense of everyone else around them.
It depends. For city-dwellers, that's true (I'm one myself, 29, living in Germany, no driver's license either). But someone living in a village will find it pretty impossible to run their errands or bring their children to school without a car.
>But someone living in a village will find it pretty impossible to run their errands or bring their children to school without a car.
It is not impossible, I know people that live in villages in Romania and use public transport to go to the city where they work. Usually this people don't own a car because they don't have a driver license, there are enough such people since the common transport is profitable for the companies that offer it.
Is not that true, there are cheaper cars, they may be missing some comfort features, the engine will be smaller (very cool how for example Ford has now peformmant 3 cylinder engines),
the regulation will push people on cheap newer and cleaner cars instead of cool cars but 10-20 years old.
I know what I am talking about since my family is not rich, in my extended family (in Romania) nobody bought a new car.
I think is OK to sacrifice electric windows, parking camera, other non essential comfort features and getting a cleaner car.
Do you have a better idea on how we push things in the right direction , except the vague "free market and deregulation solves everything bullshit"
A 20 year old BMW is a beater car that can be bought easily for less than 5000 EUR. Banning old cars is the way to drive those cars out of the market.
If a poor person needs to replace a broken car, the new laws will limit the valid options to 2006 or newer cars. You can buy a 2006 car for cheap nowadays.
