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Há quem defenda que a perda de um mandato pelo Labour numa circunscrição de Londres tradicionalmente trabalhista deveu-se ao ataque contra o automobilista por parte do mayor da cidade. Achei um exagero.

Depois, à cerca de duas semanas, a meio desta entrevista (ao minuto 36), "Piers Morgan VS Jordan Peterson The Full Interview #2", ouvi:

"you can tell the tyrants, they hate two things, they hate comedians and they hate cars"

Achei estranha esta referência aos carros.

Depois, no WSJ de 6 de Outubro passado descobri "The Culture War Is Coming for Your Car":

"Forget race. Forget sex. Forget immigration. The mother of all culture wars is breaking out, and its subject is the car. The automobile has long been a policy flashpoint, with the paramount issue being where it should be able to roam. This was the heart of the brutal urban-planning battles of the mid-20th century, which were fought over the need for and placement of new highways.

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The problem with the personal car isn't its direct climate impact. Road transport, including trucking, accounts for 12% of global carbon emissions. Electric vehicles aren't an obvious means of reducing overall emissions, especially once you factor in their dirty supply chains and the coal-fired power that often charges them.

Rather, the car is a focus for the war on carbon because it's so visible. An electric vehicle is the most conspicuous, although perhaps not the most effective, thing a household can do in service of reducing global emissions. The corollary, however, is that if a household insists on buying and driving a gasoline or diesel car, it signifies that some concern other than climate is more important-cost and convenience often at the top of the list.

The car is becoming a cultural flashpoint because it is where climate-apocalypse proselytizing meets antielitist pragmatism. Both sides increasingly understand their fundamental values are at stake."

Esta semana descobri que uma petição pública por causa do IUC para veículos anteriores a 2008 já ultrapassou os 200 mil subscritores neste país sem sal.

O que fará o governo, recuará? 

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