Yesterday the City of Barcelona announced its intention to ban the movement of vehicles over 10 years in Barcelona with the aim of reducing pollution. Naturally, the plan would be accompanied by a plan to "renew" these vehicles and replace them with new ones. The strategy of the City of Barcelona is not just bad. is bad. Sometimes it is better not to take no action to take a bad measure. And this is precisely one of those times. Discriminating
vehicles solely with their age is a complete nonsense. To start, simply because not all vehicles over ten years ago pollute more than today. The only solution to reducing pollution, if you do by discriminating car would be based exclusively on their greenhouse gas emissions. Something, of course, there is no interest in doing, as it would be even more unpopular dejar fuera de las ciudades a muchos todoterrenos recién comprados. Por no mencionar que, incluso sustituyendo todo el parque móvil por modelos menos contaminantes no se estaría atacando en absoluto a la raíz de los problemas de movilidad, causantes últimos de esa contaminación que se pretende evitar.
Esta arbitraria discriminación no es, sin embargo, lo peor de esta medida. Mucho peor es pretender solucionar el problema mediante las ayudas a la compra de coches. Esta clase de ayudas (ya sea este nuevo E-renove , el viejo Renove o el más reciente Plan 2000E ) no sirven para reducir la contaminación en absoluto. La primera pista la tenemos en que este plan surge como recognition that the car is essential: it is therefore a bribe to ignore that you are not looking for a real solution. The second track is given by the fact that the only intention is to replace old cars with new cars, without addressing whether the new car will be better. And if we dig a little more, we will see in many cases aid for the purchase of a vehicle not end up being a "help" but part of the payment, who had planned to buy a car, go that extra money to buy a more expensive car ( and probably more pollution!).
This secondary issues. The worst of aid to the purchase of vehicles to replace other is that they consider as a measure of pollution emissions car only. This involves considering both the manufacturing and transportation of new car, as the treatment of non-polluting old car nothing. Sadly not. Cars do not go on trees, nor can we throw them in a ditch and wait to become magical rainbow. And while that's still possible that even though the new car for the trap that we replaced our old polluting less, the resulting pollution is more .
And, no matter how much we believe when we look too close, sometimes "less" means "more."
vehicles solely with their age is a complete nonsense. To start, simply because not all vehicles over ten years ago pollute more than today. The only solution to reducing pollution, if you do by discriminating car would be based exclusively on their greenhouse gas emissions. Something, of course, there is no interest in doing, as it would be even more unpopular dejar fuera de las ciudades a muchos todoterrenos recién comprados. Por no mencionar que, incluso sustituyendo todo el parque móvil por modelos menos contaminantes no se estaría atacando en absoluto a la raíz de los problemas de movilidad, causantes últimos de esa contaminación que se pretende evitar.
Esta arbitraria discriminación no es, sin embargo, lo peor de esta medida. Mucho peor es pretender solucionar el problema mediante las ayudas a la compra de coches. Esta clase de ayudas (ya sea este nuevo E-renove , el viejo Renove o el más reciente Plan 2000E ) no sirven para reducir la contaminación en absoluto. La primera pista la tenemos en que este plan surge como recognition that the car is essential: it is therefore a bribe to ignore that you are not looking for a real solution. The second track is given by the fact that the only intention is to replace old cars with new cars, without addressing whether the new car will be better. And if we dig a little more, we will see in many cases aid for the purchase of a vehicle not end up being a "help" but part of the payment, who had planned to buy a car, go that extra money to buy a more expensive car ( and probably more pollution!).
This secondary issues. The worst of aid to the purchase of vehicles to replace other is that they consider as a measure of pollution emissions car only. This involves considering both the manufacturing and transportation of new car, as the treatment of non-polluting old car nothing. Sadly not. Cars do not go on trees, nor can we throw them in a ditch and wait to become magical rainbow. And while that's still possible that even though the new car for the trap that we replaced our old polluting less, the resulting pollution is more .
And, no matter how much we believe when we look too close, sometimes "less" means "more."
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