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 Stories About: cars AND France AND fuel efficiency
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Why do they hate FreedomCar?
French government charges fees to new owners of gas-guzzling vehicles |
Clark Williams-Derry |
09 Dec 2007 |
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| France is supercharging vehicle efficiency -- not by doling out big R&D subsidies for cars that never make it to market, but by instituting a system of efficiency feebates. In a nutshell: the French ministry of ecology has announced a program that would require purchasers of new gas guzzlers (luxury Mercedes, for example) to pay an extra fee for the privilege. That money is rebated to people who buy super-efficient cars. If it's done right, the system ... |
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| Topics: cars, France, fuel efficiency (all these topics) |
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