Paris, France bans 20 year old cars

[BodybyFisher]

COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU!!  I guess OBD2, 14.7:1 stoichiometric balanced air to fuel ratios, catalytic converters, state inspections, unleaded fuels, ethanol, car pooling, public transportation, removing zinc from oils, improved gas mileage and laws against idling while parked isn't good enough.  Quite frankly, it always creeps, its NEVER good enough.

Any car registered before Jan. 1, 1997, will be barred from the city's streets from Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.  Paris banned old, exhaust-belching cars from its streets on Friday in a war on air pollution that environmentalists hope will also drive dirty vehicles from the centers of other European cities. 

Upwards of half-a-million owners in and around Paris will be hit by the ban, according to a driver defense group, 40 million d'Automobilistes, which is taking legal action to seek financial compensation for drops in the value of now-banned vehicles.

Norway is planning to ban petrol- and diesel-fuelled cars from 2025 and several cities in Europe are testing various anti-pollution or anti-congestion measures based on tolls for city center access or temporary and selective car bans during surges in pollution levels.

Here is the link

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/paris-drives-old-cars-off-its-streets/ar-AAhQIuu?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp