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Makes sense. Nobody (aside from special cases) will be buying combustion engines by then anyway. The "signing up" is pointless.

Just as pointless as some countries cough cough agreeing to things, forcing other countries to ratify them, and then ratifying it themselves.

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Correction: and then never ratifying it themselves.

Nobody except the countries we ship the old ICE cars to. Those cars that fail emissions tests end up in Central Asia.

Sometimes I wonder if we're not just shifting emissions onto other countries rather than reducing them.

Of course we are, and have been doing for ages. The difference is that the trash cars end up being replaced by giant comic book spaceship cars that use the gains in fuel efficiency to add more bulk to the vehicle and still emit as much nasty. Switching to replacing the existing dirty new vehicles with electric transport won't entirely remove the problem, but it will at least stop making it worse.

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