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Keep in mind, poor drivers are job security for brake shops, auto body repair, etc...I am a retired Petroleum Engineer from Oklahoma. Your energy perspective is extremely enlightening. Keep up the good work!

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Thank you very much, this means a lot! You're right, mechanics must make a living, too. :) Sometimes accidents are unavoidable but any form of encouraging them, even unwittingly, is not a good thing.

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This is a hilarious justification for literally everything a local government would have a desire to do!

Building a new hospital in a neighborhood to reduce emissions, adding sidewalks to reduce emissions, plowing the streets in the winter to reduce emissions. Heck, why not throw in a public park while we’re at it. It sounds like a great way to get the EU to subsidize everything, which means the money is FREE!

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I had not thought about that! What an absolutely brilliant idea! :D

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I'm not convinced other countries within the EU are any more advanced in terms of promoting driving efficiency, from what I see in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy.....not picking on any country - but generally this is not a key area of focus. There are some small legal rules (Germany and Luxembourg I think do have these) that you cannot start your car in cold weather just to accelerate defrosting the windscreen or warming up the car inside with the heating - but people don't respect these at all.

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That sounds like the law here not to use tap water for watering the garden. Go catch all the people who do it, even in a single village...

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I've just commented on a later article about changing the narrative... but this article looks like things ade going the other way😢

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They will start changing it, sooner or later, but they probably won't give up on the emissions fixation.

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