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Bill: Private Car Policy Bill of 2357
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Dorvik
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2357
Description[?]:
| Environmentally cars are a fine idea in paper but isn't so working in practice. Despite the long use of environmentally friendly cars and fuel for them are still rather expensive, some of them hard to maintain by regular people and to put it straight, we can just count on environmentally cars. Cars that use electricion & gas as their power need to be reloaded often and it takes a specialized mechanic to maintain or change parts on it and it isn't that cheap. Biodiesel would be very sufficient form of fuel but it takes inconsiderable areas of farmland to be produced and which rather minor agriculture of Dorvik cannot handle all by itself, especially due to ban of pesticides. This leaves us only one option and that is huge exporting of fuel raw-material to Dorvik which takes its cost and makes us heavily dependent from other countries. It should also be mentioned that the current policy forces the people to follow the same suite against their personal will and discourages a lot of car manufacturing potential. We should let people to decide what kind of cars they want to use but encouraging environmentally friendly solutions like providing tax incentives for environmentally friendly fuels, creation of car pool programs in cities & rural areas and increasing development & widening the whole public transportation system. Motivation for people is what we need, not punishment. * Richard Baker, Senator and Member of the Senate Science & Technology Committee |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Current: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Proposed: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:00:48, February 09, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Private Car Policy Bill of 2357 |
| Message | That's a reason why we did take 10 billion for Environment on the current budget. Part of it will go to Car companies so that they make nearly to not polluting cars. |
| Date | 14:41:03, February 09, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Private Car Policy Bill of 2357 |
| Message | We still can't use just environmentally friendly cars for the reasons stated above, it's not just about a question of money. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 27 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 272 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Party candidates for head of state elections are not visible to the public. This means that you cannot see who will run and who will not, which adds another strategic element to the elections. |
| Random quote: "The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt." - Dennis Miller |