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Most European city-dwellers support 2030 ban on combustion car sales – survey
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A majority of residents of European cities support a Europe-wide phaseout of combustion engine car sales from 2030 to reduce planet-warming emissions, a YouGov poll conducted on behalf of environmental campaigners said on Monday.
Of 10,050 survey respondents, 63% said they supported the idea that after 2030, only emission-free cars should be sold in Europe.
The online opinion poll surveyed people last month in 15 cities including London, Warsaw and Budapest, with an average of 29% opposing the idea of ending petrol and diesel car sales, while 8% said they did not know.
In all cities, a majority of respondents – ranging from 51% in Antwerp and Berlin, to 77% in Rome – supported a ban.
Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E), which commissioned the poll, urged the European Commission to include an EU-wide end date for combustion car sales in climate policy proposals due in June.
“People in cities are the most exposed to toxic levels of air pollution, and they don’t want internal combustion engines to be sold for any longer than is necessary,” T&E’s senior vehicles director Julia Poliscanova said.
I believe this poll like I believe that Joe Biden really won the US Presidency. NOT buying it at all. I could take a poll and with selective wording of the question asked, I could make you think that everyone wants to return to coal powered steam locomotives. Polls are just like politician constant liars and these polls are ALWAYS skewed to produce the pollster’s desired results and never have a large enough number of participants to be believable. Daily News Hungary, most Hungarians cannot even afford a 30 year old clunker that is a poluter, What makes you think that electric cars will be within the range of even 25% of the Hungarian people? I call B.S. on this poll.