Surely this ultimately is a problem that somewhat fixes itself if the vehicles being sold today are a good as is claimed?
Cars these days have never been cheaper in real terms and this filters down ever quicker. Certainly as a cash-strapped teenager what you can buy for £1500 today compared to when I was a kid is incredible. I can't see many pre-Euro 5 diesels having any economic value today.
I can't see a blanket ICE ban being practical or indeed anything but a token gesture, more a rolling restriction based on the legislation of the time. By the time this becomes a real issue I'm guessing there'll be little around apart from today's Euro 6. Similarly, any ban really only makes sense at peak times. There is little issue when traffic flows freely.
Makes me think back to when I was a kid. All the traffic queued up on the main road as I walked to school. Mostly 70s relics with the choke full out on a cold morning.
Cars these days have never been cheaper in real terms and this filters down ever quicker. Certainly as a cash-strapped teenager what you can buy for £1500 today compared to when I was a kid is incredible. I can't see many pre-Euro 5 diesels having any economic value today.
I can't see a blanket ICE ban being practical or indeed anything but a token gesture, more a rolling restriction based on the legislation of the time. By the time this becomes a real issue I'm guessing there'll be little around apart from today's Euro 6. Similarly, any ban really only makes sense at peak times. There is little issue when traffic flows freely.
Makes me think back to when I was a kid. All the traffic queued up on the main road as I walked to school. Mostly 70s relics with the choke full out on a cold morning.