http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/14201/story.htm Planet Ark : Northern Italy proposes green cars from 2005
ITALY: January 28, 2002 MILAN - A top official in northern Italy put forward a plan on Sunday to limit Italians in the region to buying only ecologically friendly cars from 2005. "We would be happy if by 2005 you would only be able to buy ecologically friendly cars," Roberto Formigoni, president of the regional government of Lombardy, told Corriere della Sera in an interview. "We are thinking of electrical vehicles or those that run on petrol and electricity." These cars run on electricity but use petrol to recharge their batteries. "This would not result in zero emissions, but it would substantially lower pollution levels," he said. Formigoni also mentioned hydrogen cars which he said would be available in California from 2005. "We could aim for having a certain percentage of vehicles that run on hydrogen by, say, 2007," he said. Formigoni's comments followed weeks of heavy pollution which forced the region to declare several traffic-free days in key northern cities, such as Milan and Turin for health reasons. He also called on Italy's major car producer, Fiat, and its controlling shareholder Gianni Agnelli to start producing alternatives to petrol or diesel cars. "We, in Lombardy, have decided to go in this direction and even if the date of January 1, 2005, is not yet written in any official documents, in the near future there will only be room for cars which create minimal pollution." REUTERS NEWS SERVICE ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
