A proposal from Norway's Finance Minister this weekend would halt all sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2015 as a way of spurring the development of clean car technologies.Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen told Reuters this weekend that the plan, which was first announced by the Socialist Left and Center party in 2007, is "much more realistic than people think when they first hear about this proposal," she told Reuters.
"The financial crisis also means that a lot of those car producers that now have big problems ... know that they have to develop their technology because we also have to solve the climate crisis when this financial crisis is over," she added.
Although the proposal aims to encourage the use of alternative fuels like electricity, biofuels or hydrogen fuel cells, the plan would still allow hybrid vehicles to be sold after the 2015 cut-off.
This could be the very first whiff of a revolution that leads to a fossil-fuel-free world!
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