Progressive thinking enough for you?
How very cool that the world may one day not be so dependent on fuel. GO KRISTIN!!

Norwegian Finance Minister, Kristin Halvorsen, and her Socialist
Left Party have put forth a plan that would disallow the sale of new
cars that run solely on gasoline after 2015.
Under the plan new cars such as hybrids, that run partially on gas,
would still be allowed to be sold in the country, but any cars that
only use gas as their power source would be illegal. Cars already on
the road would be unaffected.
“The financial crisis also means that a lot of those car
producers that now have big problems … know that they have to develop
their technology because we also have to solve the climate crisis when
this financial crisis is over,” Halvorsen was
quoted as telling Reuters.
While the intention may be good, the practicality of the proposal is insanely questionable — to say the least.
So don’t worry, even though the issue may be used by some of the
more reactive arms of the essentially useless mainstream media as
further proof that socialism is bad, the real story is that everybody
else in Norway thinks the proposal is as crazy as most of you likely do.
According to reports, the plan has no legs due to heavy opposition
by Norway’s other two ruling parties and its Prime Minister Jens
Stoltenberg.
Although it may seem *slightly* off kilter for the Finance Minister
of an entire country to suggest that gas cars be banned, Halvorsen says
that her party’s proposal has been largely misunderstood and that the
plan wouldn’t cause undue harm to an already devastated economy.
“We know that the world will be dependent on oil and gas
for many decades ahead but we have to introduce new technologies and
this is a proposal to support that,” she said. “A lot of people thought
that this proposal also would go after the cars we already have. That
is not the case, it’s the new cars that are bought after 2015.”