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Motorists: "The new outcasts"

2021-11-21T19:40:13.889Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Laurence de Charette. The car, it is those who do not have it who talk about it the most. They know everything about greenhouse gas emissions, the comparative harm of gasoline and diesel or the elasticity of the price of parking on the density of cars. They track down the most polluting jaws, celebrate Car-Free Days, applaud the squaring of neighborhoods promoted "my city breathes"; like the Vélib 'cards and greedily e


The car, it is those who do not have it who talk about it the most.

They know everything about greenhouse gas emissions, the comparative harm of gasoline and diesel or the elasticity of the price of parking on the density of cars.

They track down the most polluting jaws, celebrate Car-Free Days, applaud the squaring of neighborhoods promoted "my city breathes";

like the Vélib 'cards and greedily envision the maximum extension of ZFEs (low emission zones).

They are on the good side of the force;

Greta (Thunberg) is with them.

There remain the others: the crowd of inhabitants of the countryside and of the "peripheries", for whom the automobile is in reality essential.

They know it: they don't have a good press.

Good has changed sides.

The car, which for a long time was the symbol of progress, success and freedom, and held such an important place in French cinema, has become an outcast.

The bad, the boomers, the deplorable,

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Source: lefigaro

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