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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[-] EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Not sure if this was a thing anywhere else but in some UK cities like London there were "scrappage schemes" that incentivised scrapping your car to replace it with something more efficient, which I always thought was missing the point

[-] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

We had that in the US too, commonly called “cash for clunkers.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System

But I think it was really more about the economic stimulus than the environmental impact. But I’m sure the environmental side helped justify it.

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