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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by lelanthran on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:52AM (#35663437)
> See "red diesel" in the UK - its just plain ole diesel taxed differently for commercial use, but illegal for use in privately owned personal vehicles. It's dyed red to allow its use in private vehicles to be discovered from the discoloration of engine parts etc.

Maybe, but we're talking about the banning of ICE vehicles, not the banning of fuel.

I mean, "you won't find fuel because it will be illegal to possess it" is a substantially different argument from "you won't find fuel because no one will produce it anymore".

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by theK on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:54AM (#35663771)
I don't think fossil fuels will ever get completely banned from private use. Think of all the old timer drivers.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by giobox on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:24PM (#35679616)
> Maybe, but we're talking about the banning of ICE vehicles, not the banning of fuel.

This is a bizarre point to make? Regulation of fuels and regulation or bans of ICE vehicles would obviously go hand in hand (it already does today!), if ICE vehicles were to be banned as discussed here. You can't have combustion without fuel...

My point also is not that fuel may be banned - it's that the regulations governing the pumps may be different than today, and that there is international precedent for this. If combustion really is largely relegated to commercial trucking by 2045, I'd be honestly shocked if the rules governing the pumps didn't change too in a lot of places.

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